Lost sound on motherboard

I have a old Biostar motherboard (M6TWG) not sure of the revision. Anyway I have installed XP on it a couple of time and all the drivers I needed for it was already on the XP disk. Well my oldest dauhter did something to it (changed the time made passwords then forgot all of them after I got her a new computer. I was going to give it to a friend so i went to delete all the junk from us but I couldn't get into her part (forgot password) So I tried to use the guest login. Well It had problems - freeze up,no sound, REAL SLOW when it did work. So I figured I'd just reinstall windows again no biggie.But the first time I tried I had no sound and when I did the Updates (SP2 - it has XP SP1) I lost my wireless drivers...sorta , I wouldn't let me get back on the internet. So I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them over...then again...then again. I could install them but it wouldn't "recognise" the usb wireless card. So I installed XP OVER again and now I still have no sound??? The Biostar site says it Aureal but I could have swarn it was Realtek 97 audio?? Any thoughts? can I make this any longer?? Everything is enabled or in auto in the bios like it should be. In the system from control panel show nothing for a sound device?? I hope this is the right fourm? It could be software to??

 

First, clear the CMOS/BIOS setting with the on board jumper, then set just the date and time, and the boot order to CD first, HD second. Then boot to your XP CD, format, and install. It could be that (since the MB is older) Aureal is now owned by RealTek, thus the audio driver confusion. Download all the drivers from BioStar, but only install the chipset drivers and video drivers. Leave the audio 'til later. When you go to Windows updates, install the first few 'mandatory' updates like Publisher, MS Installer 3.1, etc. But do not install all the others, yet. On the left side of the Update window, look under Hardware (optional) and download and install those first. After a reboot, try installing the sound driver. Then do SP2 and the other updates, and you should then be OK. It may be a real good idea to create yourself an XP install CD with SP2 slipstreamed into it. It's REAL easy! All you need is an XP CD, a PC with CDRW, a blank CD, the SP2 .exe, a CD burning app that can handle .ISO's (Nero, CD BurnerXP Pro3, and tons of others), and this program: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4444.html. You can download the SP2.exe file from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en It really is easy. If you need more info, go to the AutoStreamer home page and look in there, or Google 'autostreamer' or maybe 'SP2 slipstream'....

good luck!

hd2k

The only reason I mention the SP2 slipstream is 'cuz I had very similar problem to yours on a friend's PC, and he only had an XP 'Gold' CD (no SP, not even SP1!!!). So I 'built' the XP SP2 CD, and reloaded the Windows, and it fixed ALL the weirdness I was having (some of it was USB related).