kimsland/turbo1,
After a brief hiatus I am back...with an unexpected development (at least in my opinion).
First of all, as far as #2 goes above...I have the latest updates so hopefully it was just a fluke (although I have had quite a few BSODs of various sorts as mentioned earlier).
Okay, so I turned off the onboard sound in my BIOS and I borrowed a PCI sound card from my friend (Creative SB Live! Player 1024 Sound Card). I installed it and fired up XP and received the usual Found New Hardware balloon at the bottom right. So it pops up a few more balloons there and then I get a prompt asking me to insert my XP CD. I do that and I get another prompt about "do you really want to install these SoundBlaster drivers even though they are unsigned" to which I clicked Continue. A few seconds later I receive this error
View attachment 28317. So I click Finish (my only option) and then immediately receive another prompt about installing something else for the SB card (I think drivers but I can't remember the exact wording). Anyway, it was the usual prompt about "choosing from a specific location, or just searching" so I just did the search (since I don't actually have the drivers nor does my friend) and it searched the XP CD for awhile and eventually seemed to find it and did the folder copy icon bit like it was installing them. However, in the middle of that I received an error that it couldn't find some file called "gamenum" and I was asked to insert my XP2 upgrade CD to search for it on there. Well, I do actually have an XP2 upgrade CD ($4 from microsoft) and I inserted that CD, but apparently that file wasn't on there because it couldn't find it so I had to just click cancel for that file. It continued copying for a little bit and then ended.
So I basically received an error on the install of the Multimedia Audio Controller and then another during the drivers right?
My device manager currently looks like this
View attachment 28318 and before trying another else I figured I would post to get some advice on the next step. Honestly, I was expecting this card to work just fine, thus proving I had a bad onboard audio chip. However, that first error seems to indicate something else may be awry than a bad chip, right?
I was thinking that I should try to make this PCI card work in other ways first before coming to that conclusion, is that correct? Any help on that would be very much
appreciated (as usual)!
I really want to get to the bottom of this...