The last time I brought it home from the shop it had a new screen card. Fine. The screen wasn’t working. Now its working. But then I found that I wasn’t able to install the modem, even though I had the installation disc from the internet company. I was on the phone with tech support for over an hour in and out of control panel.
When I got off the phone I decided to just junk everything (sofware wise) and start from scratch figuring this might help solve the problem with the modem. I reformatted the drive with the windows 2000 professional disc and reinstalled windows.
I got the windows up and running, except there’s no sound.
So I start poking around in control panel and inside the physical compter to see what I might have to install to get the sound to work and this is what I found
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[li]control panel / sounds and multimedia properties / sound playback / prefered device / no playback devices[/li][li]control panel / computer management/ components/multimedia/sound devises/ no sound devices. [/li][li]Label on audio port: (embossed) foxconn[/li][li]add - remove hardware wizzard / troubleshoot device/[/li]searching for plug and lay hardware to install / multimedia audio controller - the drivers forthis device are not installed (code 8)
[li]I asked windows to search every cd I ever got that looked like it had audio device drivers and it found nothing it could use.[/li][li]No, there was no disc that came with the computer containing sound device drivers.[/li][/ul]
So I basically have no idea what driver I need to install. When I go look for a driver, don’t I need to know the specifications of the hardware? How do I find out?
If Foxconn is indeed your motherboard… Here’s the link to their site.. If you can narrow down which board you have… and the sound is onboard, the drivers will be listed for it.
Foxconn is just the sound port, the socket for the sound blaster plug.
Yes, the sound card is on board (built in). The name of the motherboad is, well, if I look at the reciept that I got when I bought the machine it says Gigabyte 7vkml. But when I opened it up and looked inside I saw Gigabyte 8xagp.
I did a search for Gigabyte. I didn’t find the manufacturers website for downloading drivers.
The 8XAGP is the video card slot in the motherboard. Your motherboard can be found here on the support page from Gigabyte. The do list a 7VKML in the drop down box on this page. You might try the Download Center section. It seems that they will install a self analyzing program on your machine.That might be helpful in that it will determine how up to date the drivers are in your machine.
I downloaded that one, the one for the GA-7VKML That’s the model number listed in the printed page I got with the computer. But why can’t I find the the number that actually appears on the physical machine, 8xagp?
I’ll try the Driver of GA-7VKML and let y’all know if it works.