Neil,

Perhaps the sound and modem cards are not plug and play.  Are they in ISA
slots?  Try the hardware installation wizard to see if it can detect them.
If not, you'll need to track down the drivers (check the sound card for the
manufacturer and model - you may have to look at the number on the chipset
as well; you can usually find the modem manufacturer and model from the
FCCID - go to the link http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/), use the hardware
wizard to add them and then perhaps set the resources manually.  To free up
IRQ's for manual setting, you'll probably have to reserve them in the CMOS
settings.

If you need more information, just reply.

Good luck,
Rand Blunck
Why Not Try Computing
Glendale, AZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Edwards" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:30 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] No sound after Windows 98 re-installation


Advice please. We had to replace the HDD on one of our PCs.  All seemed to
go ok with the partitioning & formatting of the disk and the re-install of
Windows 98.  However, there is no sound at all.  No sound devices are listed
under Control/System/Device Manager/Devices.  When we compare the Devices
list with the list on another identical machine we have, the Modem is also
missing (we don't in fact use the modem on either machine).

Neil Edwards, York, UK

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