My Soundcard Won't Work!

Alright, starting at the beginning:

I've just purchased a new video card, so when I went to put it in my computer I had to take out the modem card (for dial up) which was installed when I bought my computer. I had to move around my wireless adapter and my soundcard because the vid card would only fit on the bottom.

So all was fine and dandy. Then I turn on the computer, and the sound is gone. My comp doesn't detect that there's a sound card at all. So, I took out the wireless adapter, and put the sound card in that slot, and voila! There was sound!

So I just put in the wireless adapter in the spot that my sound card had been, and turned on my comp, and no more sound! No more detection! URG!

If someone can please help, it would be much appreciated. I know that all my PCI slots work, and that all the cards are in good condition. I'm not too computer savvy technical wise, but I do have a boyfriend who knows a bit more than I do!

Thanks

 

Anyone with any suggestions?? Please?

 

Hello,
Does Device Manager have any ?s or Xs?

 

post your specifications..

from everest pls...

 

collinsl,
No, there are no ?s or Xs.

jblim1980,

I'm running on a Dell Intel Celeron, 2.66 GHz, Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Anything else you need to know?

 

Halo,
it's a Dell Dimension 3000. I bought it back in '05.

Thx so much for the help, in advance!

 

wheres your report?

 

Ok, here's what I did.
I went and checked in the device manager, and no, there aren't any yellow "!"s. There is a "?" with "ethernet controller" beside it, but I've always had that there, long before the soundcard problem started.

Anywho, I uninstalled all the stuff for my soundcard, rebooted and tried to reinstall it, but it said that the card wasn't physically installed, and stopped before any installation.
There was also nothing to uninstall in the device manager. Poo!

I did install the audio driver from dell, rebooted, and then uninstalled the soundcard stuff, rebooted and tried to reinstall the soundcard stuff. Nothing! Urg.

What do I do now?
Thanks!

 

Before you installed this new card was your sound from an internal speaker? If so you must disable it in the BIOS.

 

Geminiione,
I'm not sure what you mean?

The sound card I have with my computer came with the computer when I bought it, nothing has changed with the sound card.

I just got a new video card, before that, it was whatever my motherboard was running on. And the new vid card is working fine.

 

what i meant was is it an actual card or is built into the motherboard. if it is an actual card do you have one you know that works and swap it out? cards have been known to die. any card will do even an older one

 

Geminiione,
My sound card is an actual card. I know that it still works because when I had taken out the internet card, I heard the startup music for xp. I know that all of my cards are still functional, and that all of my PCI slots are still functional, it just seems that all the slots aren't functional when I actually use all the cards in them.

Before I had put in the new vid card, I had an old dial up modem card in there (which came with the pc). I'm not even sure if that worked, but I had never used it. And now the internet wireless card was moved to that slot and works, but my soundcard was moved to the slot that previously housed the wireless internet card, and it doesn't work. My pc won't pick up that anything is in there.

 

sounds like you have IRQ conflict. what you will need to do is find a IRQ that does not conflict with each other. it is not uncommon for sond card and NIC's to have the same IRQ. go to device manager and look at the properties for network card and go to the resourse tab and find out what IRQ it is using. if possible you might be able to change it depending on the card and software that installs with it

 

Ok, so I've fixed it! Yay! Everything is working perfectly! Thanks anyway, everyone!