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  1. Dec 15th, 2003, 03:18 PM #1
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    Sound Card Woes (resolved)

    The other night I was running windows update, and noticed that there was an audio driver listed on there. Now normally I don't download drivers from windowsupdate, but I had a lapse in judgement and went for it. I checked it, started the downloading, and went to bed. This morning, the installation for the driver had hung at 99% and the browser window was frozen. I killed it, and tried to play an audio file. No sound. I head to device manager. Uhoh, I think -- it was trying to install a driver for my on board sound, which conflicted with my SB Live! Now, anything I try to do in device manager pertaining to my SB Live! or onboard MMC driver results in a freeze. I can't disable, roll back, or update. I tried installing the creative drivers -- it says I don't have a creative card installed.

    I'm at the end of my rope here. Any suggestions are welcome.
    Last edited by sunburnt; Dec 15th, 2003 at 05:26 PM.
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  2. Dec 15th, 2003, 04:26 PM #2
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    Try uninstalling them, if that doesn't work, try doing it in safe mode.
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    Looks like the installer changed the On Board Audio setting in the BIOS. I switched it back to Auto, and we're golden.
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    Good, glad to hear you got it working
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