WinXP will not start soundcard driver

Hi,
I have a new Gigabyte GA-7DXE Triton motherboard installed on my pc and
thought I had a possible conflict between my creative live soundcard and
onboard via ac97 sound chip (even though I had disabled ac97 in the
bios) Neither source was recognised as a playback device under Sounds
and Audio devices in Control Panel.

I thought I'd remove the creative card and see if the onboard sound
would work by itself, re-enabled it in the bios but no luck.

Since then
I have updated the Bios and Via ac97 drivers;
All the latest Windows updates, Direct X 9.0 (uh-ho) have been
installed to try and solve the problem.

Still no luck,
Control Panel/System/ Device Manager can see the via ac97 sound device
and says its fine, the drivers are fine, and the device is working
properly.

Under Control Panel/Sounds And Audio Devices/Volume, Audio or Voice
Tab, everything is greyed out and says no device.

Under control panel/sound and audio devices/hardware/properties/ audio
devices, it says Via ac97 audio controller Status: driver is enabled
but has not been started.

What can I do to start the driver and get it recognised in sounds and
audio devices?
The windows troubleshooter doesn't tell me anything other than check
which device is enabled (none are) but no more help after that.
It won't play music files or system sound files as there is no device
recognised by sounds and audio devices.

Please Help




--
Big Mountain

On Feb 7, 12:49*pm, Big Mountain <Big.Mountain.1f10...@pcbanter.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a new Gigabyte GA-7DXE Triton motherboard installed on my pc and
> thought I had a possible conflict between my creative live soundcard and
> onboard via ac97 sound chip (even though I had disabled ac97 in the
> bios) Neither source was recognised as a playback device under Sounds
> and Audio devices in Control Panel.
>
> I thought I'd remove the creative card and see if the onboard sound
> would work by itself, re-enabled it in the bios but no luck.
>
> Since then
> I have updated the Bios and Via ac97 drivers;
> All the latest Windows updates, Direct X 9.0 (uh-ho) have been
> installed to try and solve the problem.
>
> Still no luck,
> Control Panel/System/ Device Manager can see the via ac97 sound device
> and says its fine, the drivers are fine, and the device is working
> properly.
>
> Under Control Panel/Sounds And Audio Devices/Volume, Audio or Voice
> Tab, everything is greyed out and says no device.
>
> Under control panel/sound and audio devices/hardware/properties/ audio
> devices, it says Via ac97 audio controller Status: driver is enabled
> but has not been started.
>
> What can I do to start the driver and get it recognised in sounds and
> audio devices?
> The windows troubleshooter doesn't tell me anything other than check
> which device is enabled (none are) but no more help after that.
> It won't play music files or system sound files as there is no device
> recognised by sounds and audio devices.
>
> Please Help
>
> --
> Big Mountain

You still need to install the correct sound drivers. AC'97 sound card
drivers should have come on the same CD that has the motherboard
chipset drivers.