Cancel The Password - Switch On PC - Installed New Sound Card
May 12, 2005
1) I would like to cancel the password request when windows XP starts up, how can I do that?2) when I switch on the PC, I am asked if I want to use windows XP or windows 2000 even though I don't have any partition on my HD with windows 2000, actually I have no partition at all) I have installed a new sound card, and even though everything works fine, on windows start up, I always get the window " new hardware found" " looking for the driver on the Cd " how can I get rid of that?
Windows 2000 usually displays the username and password when i want to log on, and i just click OK and go to the desktop. However, upon turning it on today nothing appears, i press enter and it says to enter a username and password, Cancel is greyed out and there is no 'X' button.
I can't for the life of me find the username and/or password and have no rememberance as to the username or password in my head (never needed to remember it).
Is there anyway i can get round it? BIOS changes? password hackers? I really am looking for anything that might work
Just had a phone call from a friend asking if i know what to do.... They have a P.C with windows XP everything was going fine this morning with it now for some reason the have been "Locked out" when they try to log in on to the P.C when it first comes on they are asked for a password normally they press cancel and things are fine now they have been "Locked out" and told that have to get help to unlock it...
I installed XP SP3 last night, and all was seeming pretty ok, surprisingly.But I've discovered that I can no longer switch between users. When I try to switch, the system freezes as it is loading the desktop for the second user and all I can do is reboot to get out of it. infuriating! There's no problem at all if I log out of my user account, and my wife then logs into hers. but they just won't run at the same time as they used to. I've tried checking to see if Terminal Services and RPC are running in the services list, and both are, so it's not that.
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.
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?
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.
I have Windows XP Pro installed on IBM T60 Laptop.Whenever I start the Laptop up,the Windows Security Sey up Wizard appears and I wish to stop this appearing every time.In addition,if I fill in my Windows password on the security wizard the system says that I am using the incorrect password.Please can someone advise me how to solve these problems.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This problem just came out of no where today. i installed a TV tuner card, cinema 4D (3d render program) And i think i formatted a HDD (40gig) as well. but overall my computer is being much slower that it ever has.
(From inside "Help & Support Network disgnostics System scan") I show three others no longer functioning-do not show in device manager. ( 3 instances of Intel Pro100-error is 'DHCP Server invalid address-255.255.255.255') New nic is PCI card-old instances were the On-MB type. Being a fastidious type, what registry keys would I find them in-in order to "Clean up" their leavings??
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.
