I just reformatted my old pc for my sister to use but i only had windows 2000 so i installed it and everything seems to work fine apart from sound but when i reformatted about a year ago when i was using it i used xp and it had sound without me installing any sound drivers anyone know whats wrong?
No sound
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Btw, if you play some very old games, you will see that you will have sound anyway :P
try dangerous dave to test it.
Anyway try this:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000208.htm
try dangerous dave to test it.
Anyway try this:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000208.htm
Should i need sound driver as the computer just has onboard sound and not a sound card and like i said i never had this when i reformatted it before just this time with windows 2000.
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well it could be many things, one of them is that you have new sound card compare to the windows 2000, so windows 2000 don't have your sound card driver, in that case try to install Microsoft service pack 4:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/default.mspx
I installed that and still no sound but now when i start up i get a pop up window that says found new hardware multimedia audio contollers.
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basicly mate if you have a sound card or onboard sound you will need to install the drivers for the sound chip on every o/s other then xp which installs a generic driver for the sound
you will need to info of the sound chip from either the mother board manuals, or the motherboard it self, when you have the info of the sound chip for example the model number and who's chip it is then search it on google or go to the manufactures website and download it from there,
normally if you know who made your motherboard and its model number you can go to the manufactures website for the motherboard and get the appropriate drivers from there, i would imagine if the sound driver isnt installed then you may be missing other drivers for the board aswell.
the motherboard make and model can be found on the motherboard it self, the pc manual or the motherboard box.
and the message your getting about found new media basicly is the pc telling you it has found a new piece of hardware in this case hardware that relates to sound, and it will prompt you where to install the drivers from.
good luck
you will need to info of the sound chip from either the mother board manuals, or the motherboard it self, when you have the info of the sound chip for example the model number and who's chip it is then search it on google or go to the manufactures website and download it from there,
normally if you know who made your motherboard and its model number you can go to the manufactures website for the motherboard and get the appropriate drivers from there, i would imagine if the sound driver isnt installed then you may be missing other drivers for the board aswell.
the motherboard make and model can be found on the motherboard it self, the pc manual or the motherboard box.
and the message your getting about found new media basicly is the pc telling you it has found a new piece of hardware in this case hardware that relates to sound, and it will prompt you where to install the drivers from.
good luck
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or just check device manager
Anyways windows 2000 doesnt come with generic sound drivers, this is the same for many other generic drivers that are missing frm 2000 that xp has.
Anyways windows 2000 doesnt come with generic sound drivers, this is the same for many other generic drivers that are missing frm 2000 that xp has.
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Windows 2000 with sp4 has bare minimal driver files for it, as you see 2000 is a server edition and so doesnt really need all the drivers for it to run with regards to things like sound and graphics. Hence why they aint included and all you get is the bare minimal.
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If it didn't install them, it doesn't have them, you are gonna need to get them from a disk that came with the machine, or a site like driverguide.com
Dr3AmScAp3: Windows FREQUENTLY doesn't detect the actual card and jsut has "Multimedia Sound Device", that program will tell you the exact model you have, which you can then search for on a site like driverguide.coM
Dr3AmScAp3: Windows FREQUENTLY doesn't detect the actual card and jsut has "Multimedia Sound Device", that program will tell you the exact model you have, which you can then search for on a site like driverguide.coM
Windows 2000 like windows 2003 have hardware signature coded into the OS so that it makes finding generic drivers easier to find. Hence why now its fully incorperated into windows vista.
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Xp does aswell, its how Unknown Devices works, the hardware signatures are in the registry or so, this program extracts the data, compares it to a list that tells it what the item is, and then tells you. If windows doesn't have a built in driver for a specific item, it 99% of the time will just show "Multimedia SOund device" or so, which is anything but useful.
Thats what i like about vista, not only does it tell you what devices you have installed it also tells you to get lost if it doesnt support that hardware.
Ive sorted this now got a windows xp professional disk off my dads work mate with a code for free and its legit aswell.
Im ashuming that uve not used vista fully yet then.
Drivers are availible for all hardware and 99% of it works with all OS apart from Vista. Vista doesnt support certain makes of sound card as well as G/cards and unfortunatly it wont also allow you to install the drivers for these as it dissables the drivers as soon as uve installed them.
And the only time i use device manager is when im telling a customer to check device manager for any "device manager error codes". I know my hardware when it goes in and any faults it comes up with i sort out without the need of using DM.
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You really don't sound like you know what you're on about.
I've not used vista full stop, its total utter pure ****.
Ofc drivers are available for all hardware, 1 driver will NOT jsut work with all OS's (ie a driver made for win98, won't work in XP, or for an extreme example, OSX or Linux. Heck, a driver for a 64bit processor won't work on a 32bit). A driver is coded for a specific OS/Platform. Your also straying from the point, the OP wanted a driver for win2K for his soundcard. win2k didn't have the driver built in, so he needs to go get one.
As I said, vista is total utter pure ****.
Uh huh. However, when I reinstall windows on a machine the last thing i can be ****ed doing is opening the ****er up and looking at all the undetected hardware and finding the random numbers on it that could mean something. Its much easier (and more efficient) to just use "Unknown Devices" and wham the name into driverguide.com