It takes a little computer knowledge to be able to get into the bios screen of a computer. You may have to press F1, F2 or F10 as the computer starts. Once you are in the bios, look for something like on-board PCI devices, audio controller, and disable it. Save the changes and reboot your system. Take your time...

would this fix my sound back to perfect? and everything would run normal with my new m-audio audiophile 2496 sound card?

wow reboot my system or restart my computer? reboot as in delate everything and start my pc new again?

u there? ..?

"reboot as in delate everything and start my pc new again?"...

Reboot = restart, understand now?

yes, ive done it , i disabled my onboared audio., everything still seems the same

Hello everyone. first post.

I've just downgraded from Vista to XP Pro, I have a Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS card (not notebook). It worked on Vista. I downloaded a beta driver from

tinyurl.com/6gk5bo

and device manager now shows creative sb audigy 2 zs under "sound, video, game controllers" but there's no sound coming from my speakers. I have the same hardware conflict (explanation mark) with "multimedia audio controller" as other people in this topic. How is the audio controller related to the sound output, and if I fix this problem, will I get sound again? My system is freshly formatted, the driver in the link is Jun 08, I have normal speakers... am I missing a driver or some software or something?

do u have the driver for the sound card installed? if not install it, if it is installed u might go to creative and see if u can find a newer driver. the sound card is all that should need drivers for the sound to be heard.

I downloaded the motherboard (P4P800-E Deluxe) one from the Asus website:

V5.10.00.5440 2004/04/29 update
Description ALC850 Avance AC'97 Driver
ALC850 Avance AC'97 Driver for (98SE/ME/2000/XP/2003)

And one from creative for Audigy 2 ZS:

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy series Driver
Release date: 17 Jul 08
This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows Vista® and Windows® XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® series audio devices.

rebooted and still no sound

Perhaps you could check the following?
1 - Check the speakers are working by turning up the gain and holding the signal connection plug in your fingers - you should hear a hum from the speakers - if nothing they may be faulty so check them in another PC or suitable audio output.
2 - How many sound cards do you have? If you have one on the motherboard and also a sound card all installed and running you need to disable one of them. Either take out the sound card or disable the motherboard sound card in the BIOS. If there is a resource conflict this should clear it.

It turns out that my main soundcard-speaker port was scratched. I got a replacement and voila .... 2 brilliant speakers. Thanks for all the help guys.

well thanks for u replying, and glad u got it fixed.

houzit - i have a compaq presario sr1520an and currently no
- multimedia audio controller
- PCI simple communications controller
- video controller (vga compatible)

no sound and it's driving me crazy lol i have been working on this for the day and a half lol can someone shed some light please - thank u much

ok my computer didn't computer with a cd for the motherboard - we have a compaq presario sr1520an - no sound and i have installed the sm bus controller, and am missing the video controller and the PCI simple communications controller...

I have same problem and checked motherboard using CPU-Z. This is what I get:

Motherboard
Manufacturer IBM
Model IBM
Chipset Intel i845G Rev. A1
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4)
LPCIO SMSC LPC47M10x


This means nothing to me, hopefully you can help.

Go to www.hp.com
Click Support and Drivers
Select download drivers and software (and firmware)
type in the model number or do an auto search...

(HP, Compaq and Lenovo are so easy to find drivers for)

Good luck dude

i've been sufferin the same prob all of us here have suffered. but that was before. try these five easy steps and hope it would help:

1.go to start menu>all programs>windows update.

2.install windows update>restart your pc.

3.after restarting, go to control panel>printers.....etc.>add new hardware.

4.then try to add multimedia audio controller even thou it has that (!) exclamation point in it.

5.wait for awhile then after which try your audio if its working.if it is congratulations! these thread helped you.

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i've been sufferin the same prob all of us here have suffered. but that was before. try these five easy steps and hope it would help:

1.go to start menu>all programs>windows update.

2.install windows update>restart your pc.

3.after restarting, go to control panel>printers.....etc.>add new hardware.

4.then try to add multimedia audio controller even thou it has that (!) exclamation point in it.

5.wait for awhile then after which try your audio if its working.if it is congratulations! these thread helped you.

add me up in my friendster.com and yahoo messenger account so we can be entourages.
rabien underscore abc at yahoo dot com(sorry for the typed email ad this site won't allow the usual ones)
tc.God Bless you all.
:]

I accidentally deleted the multimedia audio controller and I've tried everything . Every time I go to try and reinstall it , my PC says that I don't have the correct software and to insert a disk . I don't have any disk for it ; can anyone help me get it back , I miss my music .

Thank You .