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transman
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i have a problem with my onboard sound it is soundmax i have installed the driver and it is showing it as working but when i go to multimedia in win 98 it dosnt show any audio playback devices can any one help ???
ajzchips
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Are you by any chance using WDM drivers on Windows 98 (First Edition)? The First Edition only supports VXD drivers (same as Windows 95), FYI.
transman
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im not sure but i am useing 98 se
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Then forget what I mentioned previously. You may have to manually select the playback/record device from a dropdown menu in your Sound Properties. This may be necessary when your soundcard isn't configured as your primary/default playback device (i.e. when you have a modem with wave-out support, etc.)
transman
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welli tried that but its not there it says no audio devices
ajzchips
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Are you installing the drivers that came with the mobo? Are you using generic drivers you downloaded from somewhere?
Why don't you tell us what motherboard you have...
transman
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the board is a atrend atc 7400 and its drivers i have gotten off the net i dont have the drivers that came with the board if you have any sugestions it would be great thanks
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You have a sound chip right next to your second PCI slot (next to the edge of the motherboard). Post everything written on it.
transman
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smcs lpc47m102 a9931-b7462 bh17251-7
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Sorry, my fault, that wasn't your sound chip. That's your Super I/O controller chip. If you have AC97 sound, then your chip is most probably a lot smaller, but shouldn't be too far from your I/O chip.

How did you identify it as a SoundMax in the first place? Was this how the Windows Device Manager identified it?

You might have one of the chip models listed here:
http://www.mediatek.com.tw/english/site ... rivers.htm
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transman
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when i did a add hard wear search that is what it came up with and the guy i bought it from who owns a computer store told me thats what it is
Rainbow
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This board can have either Realtek ALC100 or Analog Devices AD1881 (called SoundMax). What's your BIOS ID string?
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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transman
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it is i810-47b27x-atc7400mc-ns
Rainbow
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v1.x boards have BIOS strings like this:
09/10/1999-i810-47B27X-ATC7400MC-NS
ATC7400M Ver:1.0r03

v2.x boards with ALC100:
10/23/2000-i810-47B27X-ATC7400MC-KO
ATC7400M VER:2.1r01

v2.x boards with AD1881:
10/31/2000-i810-AD1881X-ATC7400MC-QT
ATC7400M VER:2.1r01

Don't know which chip was used on v1.x boards - the best way is to find it. According to Atrend, it's "U20 near PCI 1" for v2.x boards, hope that it's same for 1.x boards.
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Denniss
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De-install old Sounddrivers and try the Realtek ones from here :
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dla ... tware=True

If they don't work too try Sisoft Sandra or AIDA32 or other tools to identify your Soundchip .

Or try AD1881 drivers from an Atrend mirror site :
ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/vendor/atr ... 000/SOUND/
>> large size driver

ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/vendor/atr ... nd/Analog/
>> small size driver
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