hi you should look in device manager under sound video and game controllers to see if you have a sound card installed in one of your pci slots if so you should have an installation disc to install all drivers but i think your sound comes from your motherboard if thats the case go to your sis mobo site and dowmload and install audio device drivers and restart your pc will install all the correct drivers and your done or go to www.realtek.com and download ac.97 audio codec for windows xp or what ever system your using and install. this is what i use for my own mobo just a note here if you do have a sound card and mobo sound is turned on in the bios setup the device drivers will conflict if this is the case reboot your pc press del on mine anyway your pc will have a blue screen no mouse control here use arrow keys esc & return find audio devce and disable save your chages and exit windows will now restart only do this if you dont want your mobo to be your source of sound other wise you must install sound card drivers rember it should be one or the other for your pc to understand which drivers to use on startup hope this helps dave the rave

Thanx guys imma try the downlaod and tell you if it works

hey man i got to thank yall my souund is working again so thanx everyone for helpin me thru it...and dave thanx for the realtek site

Oh yea and i fixed the problem by goin to realtek and and downloadin the ac.97 audio codec

Hi my name is Suzanne, I've having the same problem with my PC, no sound at all. I've tried to download from realtek but I could'nt find the software ac.97 audio codec... at lease not free, could someone help me solving my problem. I just don't know what to do - no sound on my PC - I think I've deleted something I was'nt suppose to

You may be able to recall the driver if you accidentally deleted something. try these steps:
1. right click on the "My computer" icon on the desktop
2. click on properties
3. click on hardware
4. click on device manager
5. scroll down on the list that comes up under device manager to the "sound, video and game controller tab",click it to open up then double click on the codec driver ( it may be called something else, such as vinyl AC97 codec combo driver or something else...)
6. a new window will open and one of the tabs in that window is "driver" click on it and you will get several option such as driver details, update driver, roll back driver.
If you are connected to the Internet you will be able to update the driver with no problems
Try it. Good luck

Firstly, specs:

Windows XP Professional Platform
ASUS P4P800S-X
Integrated Soundmax Audio (currently the issue)
who cares about the memory, or hard disk etc ...

My problem is as everyone else has, Multimedia Audio Controller wont correctly install the driver. I've installed from disk, downloaded from ASUS ...

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

Tried every which way from roll backs to reinstall. No luck!

So I just have to disable it for the time being and drop in a pci sound card for the time being. Yes I did just try to download the audio driver today again.

If anyone has any alternatives I would gladly try them. I have installed the other drivers, inf, LAN, etc ... but have not flash the BIOS ... I don't see it necessary. I have the work around if thats all I can do for now.

Cheers,
Xgammon

Try going into the BIOS setup and set the AC97 audio to AUTO if it is not already set. This may help.
Good Luck

Okay, I have the same problem. Specs below:

ATI Xpress 200 (RS480)
ATI SB400
ITE 8716

I visited [url]www.ati.com[/url] but found no help there. I'm running Windows XP Professional and am using an AMD Athlon 64.

Is this the replacement driver I want?:

[url]https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27[/url]

Under "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the Control Panel, in the Volume tab it states plainly "No Audio Device" and the remainder of options are gray/background/inaccessible. In the Audio tab it follows: No Playback Devices, No recording devices, No MIMI Playback Devices; likewise under the Voice tab.

I also have the yellow question marks in my Device Manager next to the "Other Devices" tab and "Multimedia Audio Controller" and "SM Bus
Controller" sub-tabs.

I have the disk for my motherboard but I don't believe the sound was working before XP was installed.

People who have problems should be starting there own threads, instead of stealing demonkids thread

Deathskull
Go to device manager and delete the sound and audio devices tab. Then restart your computer and when it finds new hardware, it wil ask you for the drivers. at this time you should use the motherboard CD for the drivers, they should be there.
Good luck. tell us what happens

Eddy Rassey,

Thank you very much. Your prompt advice was stellar. Everything is working beautifully now.

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Hynesy,

I believe what you mean is: "People who have problems should be starting their own threads instead of stealing Demonkid's."

Removed: redundancy, spelling error, misplacement of comma.
Added: missing apostrophe, missing capitalization.
Untouched: passive-aggressive flavoring.

I feel the addition to an existing thread was justified due to the similarity of the problem. Likewise, the solution. However, I did not want to attempt someone else's solution when it included deleting important files.

I didn't mean to be rude or anything, but people in these forums are extremely helpful and the people that start there own threats get more user specific replies for their problem, and please don't undermine my sentence structure, I feel that what I wrote is clear and doesn't needs to be re-worded.

i dont know if i am doing this all right so excuse me if i am not. i have a problem with my sound. i have sound but it sounds like the chimpmunks. i cannot figure out how to fix it. can anyone help? i think i may have accedentally gotten rid of something that i needed. not sure. remember something about multimedia audio controller. if i did get rid of it i cant find it. i have windows washer installed and i think something may have gotten bleached. ty

click on the volume control icon and check the master volume tabs and see if any are checked and uncheck them
Check your speaker connections at the PC. try a headphone instead of the speakers and see if you get good sound.
You may have to uninstall and re-install your sound devices and drivers

You must install motherboard drivers,,

which install the onboard audio driver,

i have the same problem i was unistalling things i didnt need and accidently uninstalled SOUND MAX and now i have no sound on my computer can anyone in cyberland help me i miss my music

Go to your computer's support website and look for drivers/downloads for your model. Look for the SoundMax sound drivers. Download and install them

i dont know wat computer brand i have

THAT BLOODY WORKED THANKS HEAPS I HAVE MUSIC AGAIN THANKYOU

That's what we are here for minimaan. Glad you got it sorted

I Have the same problem as many on this thread i.e Multimedia Audio Controller has the big yellow question mark and there is no sound.

Ive used CPU-Z

and get

Windows XP Media center edition professional

Motherboard

Manufacturer FIC
Model eXentia
Chipset Intel i865P/PE/G.1848P

Ive looked in driver guide and am struggling to know what to look for.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Did you try FIC tech support? they have drivers at this site, you may be able to find yours:
http://www.fic.com.tw/support/mother...river_via.aspx