Basically, I went out today and bought some nice 2.1 speakers, and I thought to myself 'why not get a new soundcard'. MY old one was a Realtek AC97 one, which I know has had a lot of problems. I bought a PC Line 5.1 Channel Sound Card (model: PCL-SC5100). Went home, fitted it into a spare PCI slot. I didn't connect any wires for CD/DVD audio. I couldn't take out my old sound card because it was factory built, so it was onboard. I put it back together, and installed the drivers. After installing the drivers from the CD, it worked, much yayness. I restarted the computer as the setup asked me to, and when I did my computer didn't load up the logon screen. It just stayed black. Yikes. I loaded it in Safe Mode, uninstalled those drivers and restarted. It worked, but no sound was coming out. I put a song on, and I had this message come up (using Winamp ) Bad Directsound driver. Please install proper drivers or select another device in configuration. Error Code:8878000A
Yikes...
Well, this is my problem. Since, I've reinstalled and uninstalled the old drivers twice and it didn't work. Seeing as I had the other sound card still in, I tried installing the old drivers for the AC97, and it still doesn't work. I'm having a lot of trouble with this, please give us a hand guys. Thanks muchly. =D
EDIT: My specs, incase its too much trouble to go back and forth to my profile.
Intel P4 2.6GHz
512 DDR RAM
80GB HDD
ATi Radeon 9200SE
Old sound card: Realtek AC97
New sound card: PC Line 5.2 Channel Sound Card (model: PCL-SC5100)
And I've tried loading Everest/AIDA32 to try and find out the make and model of my motherboard, but under the Motherboard Name field it just reads Unknown. I dunno if I have a crappy Mobo, or if I'm looking in the wrong place.
Thanks again guys.
Yikes...
Well, this is my problem. Since, I've reinstalled and uninstalled the old drivers twice and it didn't work. Seeing as I had the other sound card still in, I tried installing the old drivers for the AC97, and it still doesn't work. I'm having a lot of trouble with this, please give us a hand guys. Thanks muchly. =D
EDIT: My specs, incase its too much trouble to go back and forth to my profile.
Intel P4 2.6GHz
512 DDR RAM
80GB HDD
ATi Radeon 9200SE
Old sound card: Realtek AC97
New sound card: PC Line 5.2 Channel Sound Card (model: PCL-SC5100)
And I've tried loading Everest/AIDA32 to try and find out the make and model of my motherboard, but under the Motherboard Name field it just reads Unknown. I dunno if I have a crappy Mobo, or if I'm looking in the wrong place.
Thanks again guys.