Sound Problems

[austy92]

This is actually a dupe from my post on the Software forum...hopefully it'll get more views/replies here.

Thanks in advance for the help. The replies to my SP1 post were on target and very helpful.

A system I built for my 'lil brother:
MSI Ultra745 w/1800+
256RAM
80Gig HD
Radeon 7500

I loaded XP and all kinda neat toys and games before I mailed it out to him. He said he was having "major problems" so he formatted C: and started over (i nearly choked him through the phone). When he loaded XP again, the sound didn't/doesn't work.

I checked MSI's homepage (they're not so big on Support by the way) and found basic driivers for the AC'97 audio (which I would think XP can load without any help (or at least it did the first time)

He borrowed a Creative Audiology MP3 to solve the problem and now he's getting very scratchy audio (he claims he disabled the sound card on the MB)

I built this system and before I mailed it out...it screamed flawlessly. Does anyone know what he could've done to mess up his sound with two separate sources.

Maybe a REPAIR install is in order.....

thanks for any input....

[scouse]

he's fooked the drivers by the sounds of it or he has a conflict with were he has put his sound card something sharing the same channel maybe