Go into safe mode and check to see if any of the old sound card parts are
left behind - if they are remove them. At this point I would remove the
newly installed sound also, and start over fresh. Reboot and reinstall the
new drivers.

Fran


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Harrison - CTS Katy, TX" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:49 AM
Subject: Loss of Audio in Win98 after Motherboard transplant


> I transplanted a hard drive with Win98SE installed on it from an old
> Gateway P2-350 system to a whitebox ECS P6VEM3 motherboard based system
> (Via C3 GigaPro CPU with SiS chipsets) and managed to get everything
> working with the new hardward except for the onboard audio (and SiS 7801).
> The most recent Win98 drivers are installed, the device shows up in
> Device Manager, but it can't be selected as an Audio Playback device in
> the Multimedia Control Panel.  I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling
> the device, no joy.  I've pulled the hard drive out stuck another one in
> and installed Win98SE from scratch and loading the SiS 7801 drivers and
> the audio works fine so I know the motherboard audio is good.
>
> Anybody got any ideals as to what's going on and how to fix it?  I'm
> guessing it's something in the system registry that needs to be manually
> removed?
>
> --
> Kerry Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
> Computer Troubleshooters of Katy LLC
>


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