Best Sound Card For System
Sep 9, 2005
I have XP Home with an Avance AC 97 sound card, probably the cheapest one made. The sound is horribly screechy and distorted on the high end of the spectrum. So I am thinking I might buy a better sound card. I have seen a lot on the Internet that are XP compatible at different prices. Is anyone able to advise on a good, resonably priced card that produces great sound? Also, am I correct in assuming that my present card is a free-standing unit and not part of the motherboard, so that I would be able to remove it and install a new one.
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Sep 4, 2006
I recently purchased a refurbished computer from Fry's Electronics. It seemed like a very good deal, so I went ahead and took it along with others who were taking them.
I finally got my internet up and I began to play Counter-strike. The sound sometimes messes up. I can hear other peoples shots just fine, but when I shot, it is almost silent.
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Apr 11, 2007
This started last night, the only thing that I did that was out of the ordinary was ran Avast's thourough scan fully, but even after that my sound worked, so it didnt delete the driver to my knowlege, but when I do a dxdiag and look at my audio, it doesn't exist, there is no sound card installed, and allI use is my DFI Lan Party UT RDX200 CF-DR mother boards on board sound. I tried installing the driver again fom DFI and to no success, now when I went to install the drive again, I got an error saying that this device isnt approved by Windows. Could windows be preventing my audio card from working?
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Feb 26, 2009
I did a reinstall of Windows XP and I can't get the sound to work. Here is the sound card:Sound Blaster Live! Platinum rev.5 CT4760P. My computer is upgraded and so it is a hybrid system. I downloaded the driver for Sound Blaster Live! from the website and it still has the same problem. To be sure there was no on board sound, I took out the card and the computer said I had no audio devices which means there isn't a on-board sound card.
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Feb 5, 2005
I got my updated Display driver no problem, but the Sound is another story. According to the DirectX Diagnostic Tool, I was using a Crystal Audio Driver from Cirrus Logic. So, I Googled a newer version of the driver and found one. When I told it to install, nothing happened, so I thought, well, I'll just uninstall my first one and then install this new one and everything will work. After I uninstalled my previous driver, the new one still wouldn't install. So I tried to reinstall the driver. Then I downloaded a driver from the official Cirrus web site and every time I click the "install" button, a message always pops up saying "Driver didn't install correctly." It doesn't tell me why or how or ANYTHING. And now my computer has no sound! Whenever I check the DirectX Diagnostic Tool, it tells me, "No sound card was found."
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Aug 15, 2010
i have lenovo desktop 57117119 but dont have sound driver how can i will get above driver free.
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Jul 20, 2007
Asked this before but never resolved.A while ago I lost certain amount of sound. Windows Startup & Shutdown were prime examples. Also sound on certain games like SolSuite & Kyodai. Alos although ticked all the boxes as suggested on prior visits, cannot get sound icon into system tray.However, sound is ok on other games like WCS 2005, playing cd's, dvd's, etc:All drivers are updated.No sound card i believe sound is built in on Motherboard.Processer is: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+MMX 3DNOW 1.9GHzGraphics: ATI Radeon 9600 /X1050 series.OS: XP Professional
Briefly cured it by duing a total disc format and rebuild. Worked fine for a couple of weeks and then suddenly I lost it again.
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Jul 16, 2005
My sound card is sharing IRQ 11 with my graphics card and I believe it is slowing down performance.How do I assign a different IRQ to my sound card?
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Oct 5, 2007
My sound is intermittent-what I mean by this is that one day I have sound and the next I have no sound. So the procedure I run through is to go into Admin Tools, go to Windows Audio-make sure the Start-up is listed as Automatic. I check the Service Status and make sure it's Started. If I shut my computer down for the night, restart in the AM it always reverts back to Service Status as labeled STOP-so I go through the same procedure again. I have down a clean boot with my system-uninstalled my sound card drivers, in fact uninstalled anything to do with the sound card-reinstalled again-I even replaced my sound card wondering if that was the problem-I am to find out that it most likely is not my sound card-I have sound as I am typing this question.
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Dec 27, 2007
I started out with Windows XP home of my wifes computer. I got a Trojan that I could not get rid of so I scrubbed my hard drive and have upgraded to XP Pro. After having done that I no longer have any sound. I have scrubbed a few hard drives in my day and knew this would happen. So I went through the process of going to the companies website and did some looking for the drivers and found them. Downloaded them and said they couldn't find the sound card. I have an onboard sound card that came in our HP Pavilion a1050y. I believe the chipset to be Intel 915G, that is what the Intel chipset identifier told me no more than half an hour ago. But anyway, this has been going on for 2 days now. I have gone into the BIOS and enabled it and reset the settings and enabled it again. I have downloaded Drivers for 3 different Sound Cards that I was told it could be. I went on to HP's website and went through their instructions, and I have tried everything I can think of. The only other thing that I can see being a problem is that the Drivers CD doesn't seem to want to load, but I don't know what that would have to do with the my onboard sound not being recognized. I am to the point of getting ready to buy a new soundcard. I don't really know where to go.
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Dec 6, 2004
Can anyone reccommend a good sound card for my computer for music production and also I have been told my computer speed needs to at least 300ghz to run these applications together,,,,Any ideas I thought memory makes the computer run faster.
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Nov 27, 2003
I installed a new video card and when I started the computer up, I have no sound at all. Please help, I have all these games, and no sound! Its a brand new computer system setup for my little brother, and he can't even use it He's all bummed out, and if someone could help it'd be GREAT! The computer is a Gateway - and I looked through BIOS, and didn't see anything about disabling/enabling the onboard sound.
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Feb 12, 2009
Try removing the card and see if you have the sound back. Se if you have sound with just the video card installed without its drivers. If same issue on Xp, Vista, the most probabily the card is not supported on the computer.Try a clean reinstallation after installing the video card.
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Nov 19, 2007
I have to install a sound card driver.I used PC Wizard 2008 and under Device Audio it says:Device Audio :82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller Manufacturer :Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI) Model :ALC850.
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Sep 21, 2007
I just reinstalled windows and the CD that I could have swore kept the Mobo drivers on it isn't responding to the machine. I there anyway to either find out what the mystery sound drivers are to install them, or get the make and model of the Mobo without cracking open the box? I know there is software out there that does it.
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Aug 13, 2007
it says i have no sound card after i reformat . help mi or tell mi where i can download.
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Aug 24, 2005
I recently bought a new PC, Pentium 4 3ghz, that came with integrated sound and graphics. I sorted a graphics card out straight away but am now looking to get a sound card. It's a family PC and apart from using it for homework/work/internet, it's also used a lot for games, music and watching DVD's. I'm looking at spending around £50, can anyone recommend a sound card. I've done a little research on the net but for every good review I find a bad one so it's not really helping Any recommendations and as to why would be received gratefully.
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Apr 14, 2009
I formated my compaq presario f750 us, and i intalled Windows xp.
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Jan 9, 2008
I recently purchased a Gateway MT6452. It came with Vista. After I ran out of patience I installed windows XP. I am having a problem installing the sound card driver. It is identified as sigmatel 9250. I think I have tried every driver on the net and nothing seems to work.
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Mar 5, 2006
My computer has lost it's sound. As for as I can tell the computer does not reconize that it has a sound card. This happened suddenly. My computer is a SONY, Pentium 4, 1500mhz. 1.50 ghz,384 mb of ram, using Windows xp, version 2002 with service pack 2. Anyone have any ideas? From my records the computer had an Intel Intergrated audio card.
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Mar 27, 2010
Apologies for the length of this post, but thought I should give a detailed account of the history of this problem.
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Jul 22, 2008
I'm having trouble installing a sound card into my wifes pc I'm not sure what make the card is the chip on the pcb is CMI87/PCI-6ch-LX.
When I install it into the pci slot and boot the computer the video fails no display on the screen, so I removed the card and the screen worked ok.
I did disable the onboard sound card befor I tried to install this card.
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Nov 3, 2006
For some reason Windows keeps telling me that ALL drivers i install aren't "Windows Logo verified" and asks me if i wanna procceed or not, while this might seem normal i know that its not, becouse drivers that i used to install with no problems now this happens. Also i have LOTS ( and i really mean LOTS ) of "Found new hardware what action do you want to take" dialogs during an hardware instalation when this also didn't used to happen before. For example i just installed my X-Fi Sound Card, before it would install with no prompts what so ever, now when i'm installing it i had about 15 prompts telling me that it found new hardware and i had to choose "Find drivers automaticly", and after i did that i would get the "Driver is not Windows Logo Verified" prompt. It all seems to work fine eitherway if i just choose "continue" with the prompts, however this is becoming quite annoying since it happens for every driver i install.
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Feb 9, 2009
Anyone can assist with installing the sound driver for Philips Freeline MT2100 which has had xp reinstalled earlier today.I have no back-up disk that works (ie autoloads).
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Aug 1, 2005
Sound card stop working. It appears that the drivers were wiped out somehow. Normally i could help with this, but she does not know what her sound card is, and its a laptop so i cant open it up to find out. It's a Gateway and the model number is PA1700-02AB. Is there any easy way to discover what card she has or what drivers to get.
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Jan 30, 2005
Deleted sound card from the add and delete software. now, whenever i try to listen to music or watch a dvd on my computer, the sound doesn't work. it says cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available, or the hardware is not responding. I had listened to music on my computer before, but now i cant. is there any way i can recover or get new hardware for my memory card? i have windows xp home edition.
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Mar 11, 2010
The CPU usage spikes to 100% regularly according to the windows task manager. It causes sound to shudder. I thought it might be fixed if I updated the sound card drivers, but I made a bit of a mess of it, and there was no sound until I managed to resurrect the previous driver. The computer is quite old, and I have added ram (1.43GB) I've scanned using AVG with no results. I've also defragmented using Smart Defrag.
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Jan 2, 2008
I installed XP SP3 and after the installation and a reboot I had lost my sound card + my VPN connection to the office no longer worked.
I could live without sound or could reinstall my sound card but the VPN connection to the office is critical to my daily work.
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Dec 20, 2008
I come home to visit my family for Christmas last night and use my old desktop. its working fine besides its a little slow. i figure its from my little sister downloading stuff. easily fixed problem. so i try to fix the problem by deleting things that were useless to her and i and were making the computer slow. i restart the computer and my windows xp theme has disappeared, there are no more network places or networks, for that matter, and i have no sound card now.
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Mar 24, 2005
I'm trying to upgrade my sound card so I ran DXDIAG (log at end of post) and it says that my sound card is an Intel(r) Integrated Audio and the driver version is 5.10.0000.3523 (English). The date is from late 2001(!) so I obviously want to update the thing.The problem is that I can't find an update file or driver anywhere! I don't know if I'm being retarded or what but there must be some update available since 2001.
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Feb 6, 2008
Reinstalled XP and since that moment the audio disapeared. I have a clone from ECS, model M925, board V7.3 with XP SP2 but sound card is onboard. Recently bougth a new Inland sound card requiring me to disable the onboard sound device and I did it but still nothing. The device manager is still showing a not-working PCI simple communication controller. The new pci sound card still is dead.
How can I fix this problem?
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