Can't find right sound driver Please Help!!!

Hi

I recently reinstalled windows because of a crash and my sound doesnt work, I'm running WINDOWS XP PRO SP2. It's a Onboard sound card, The Motherboard is P6VAP-A+ (comes up as P6VAP-AP on start-up)

System Manufacturer: VIA694
System Type: AWRDACPI

It says its a Built-in PCI 3d sound CMI 8738 in my user manual and I have downloaded the XP drivers (Driverguide.com, sound-drivers.com) but I get a blue error screen and have to reboot

The drivers I do have on the disk that came with the computer
CMI8X38 Folder Installation Notes are for 95/98/NT 4.0 and 2000

Any help would be really appreciated

 

Hi just an idea that may be a solution. I ran into a simular situation a year ago. Turned out that the machines BIOS needed to be upgraded for use with XP OS. If your machine came with XP this might not be the case. In my situation I had upgraded from Win ME OS to XP.

 

Hi

Stupid me I had it disabled in my BIOS, working now