Bookworm, my heroine, i am in need of your help! Audio problems.

[DesperatelyHelp]

I've read the previous forum posts and everything, and it seems that you've saved so many people from their misery, as they desperately try to find a solution to their audio problem. Anyway, here is the problem that I am facing:

I recently had my previous motherboard fried, this caused me to change my motherboard, everything went well using my new motherboard ( retaining all my old hardware ), until i got hit with a virus and i thought that it was time that i might as well reformat. After a few not so clean formats, i finally reformatted my computer, it's working well with Windows XP SP2, but I realise that my sound is not working. I've checked my device manager and it's stated that my Multimedia Audio Controller is left with a yellow '?' and a '!' overlapping the yellow question mark. I'm not sure if my current motherboard came with a driver installation CD, if it did, i do not have a clue where i might have misplaced it.

Please tell me the necesarry steps to take, the information to give, as my thanks goes out to everyone in this IT community willing to help.

[DesperatelyHelp]

Just a bit more info, I'm running on Windows XP Home SP2. And my motherboard is MSI 865PE-V2. I've tried installing a few drivers like the soundmax ones and i just get errors ' Driver not found, please reboot system and try again' or something like that. I go to BIOS setup and i change my AC97 audio from 'auto' to 'disabled', still no use Help! Sry for the double posting and my horrible english

[bookworm]

Originally Posted by DesperatelyHelp

Just a bit more info, I'm running on Windows XP Home SP2. And my motherboard is MSI 865PE-V2. I've tried installing a few drivers like the soundmax ones and i just get errors ' Driver not found, please reboot system and try again' or something like that. I go to BIOS setup and i change my AC97 audio from 'auto' to 'disabled', still no use Help! Sry for the double posting and my horrible english

This is the link to your MSI 865PE-V2 motherboard http://www.msi.com.tw/program/suppor...UID=718&kind=1

first install the Intel INF drivers then RESTART your comp
then the audio driver, set BIOS AC'97 to Enabled

Set a System Restore Point before installing each driver just in case

Hope this helps