I am having trouble with my computers....um well I suppose its a sound card, only, theres not really a card inside. Its a small yellow box with the appropriate holes for the speakers to plug into. I had a bad harddrive and so I decided to load my windows XP cd thinking that it might fix it. It basically wiped out the harddrive and started everything clean.....now everything is working perfectly, except for the sound. My thinking is that I need to download the driver but I have no idea how to go about it because the yellow box has no markings whatsoever on it. Does anyone have any idea what i should do or if im even going about this the right way? EDIT: I also needed to mention that the small yellow box is connected to the motherboard. The only way i knew it was the soundcard was figuring out that the 3 small holes were speaker holes. Ive used them before and never had problems until i re-installed windows xp.
What type of computer is it and if you have a disk that came with your motherboard then you might have the driverrs on that. If it's a company made computer youc an find the drivers on their website by doing a search by their model number.
first, run to device manager ( control panel-system- hardware) to make sure you don't already have a driver installed that isn't working the right driver should do the trick but make sure you have onboard sound enabled in your bios (typically, it is set to autodetect so I wouldn't even worry about this unless you get to your wits end)
okay I went to the control panel and clicked on "Sounds, speeches and audio devices" I then clicked on "Sounds and Audio devices" and the first thing I get is...under the "audio" tab--No Audio device. Does anyone know what I can do?
Go to settings - control panel - system - hardware - device manager see if there is any devices with a red X or a yellow exclamation point if so, its either disabled or the driver is missing if the driver is missing, the website for your motherboard should offer a downloadable software pack for that model, which usually includes the drivers for the sound device
Sure you can. If you have an open pci slot. You dont have to replace the yellow box on your mother board.
