I have an older computer which is in good shape. When I got it back from the workshop a year or so ago it worked fine except no sound. At that time I had spent a bit of money on it- it was about 3 years old so i upgraded to a newer comouter and put the older computer aside.
New computer had a problem which meant it was offline for a week not long after I bought it. I hooked up the old computer and it worked fine but again no sound for a few days I could live with that- even though I tried all sorts of driver d/l’s to see if that would help.
Old computer went back under the house. As i said- quite a good machine- Pentium 4 (2,93), 2 GB Ram, 512 video card. And it has XP which I need for a few programs. So today i decided I would buy a cheap sound card and install it but also get a wifi system.
I installed the wifi system and despite my lack of skills it works. I was about to try and install the sound card when I got a message saying new settings were detected and (PCI) and to connect to the Internet and it would find the drivers.
It d/l some for Realtek and I now have sound (and a brand new sound card I don’t need).
But I can’t work out why. It has been connected to the Internet before and this didn’t happen.
The only thing I can think of is in between I played around with the device manager and may have disabled sound devices (or requested updated drivers) and when I started this up again it found them on the Internet.
Does this sound logical?