Sound Issue

[Hilyar007]

the other day i plugged my guitar amp head into my sound card to do some recording and my sound card semi stopped working.the sound was still there but i had to turn up the volume all the way to be able to hear it.then i took out the sound card to replace it and now my computer wont read either the on board sound card or the pci express sound card.i have installed the drivers several times and nothing.windows xp sp2 wont recognize the card being there.i tried the system service enable audio trick but nothing.my speakers are fine.any ideas?

[unionflag]

When you fitted the PCI soundcard I assume you disabled the onboard sound in the BIOS settings to avoid a driver conflict? That being so, the onboard sound device won't be recognised by windows until you re-enable it the BIOS settings after first removing the PCI soundcard and it's driver.

As for the PCI soundcard problem itself, first check that the onboard sound is disabled in the BIOS. now boot into Windows and check Device Manager. If there is a yellow question mark against "multimedia audio controller" this means the driver is not installed. All I can suggest is you check for a new driver on the card manufacturer's website. The driver may have been patched or updated to address an SP2 compatibility problem. Such problems were common and affected many device drivers when SP2 was released.