Onboard AC97 will not work

I have a Biostar geforce6100m-9 MOBO. AMD 64 4000. Win XP PRO.

When I first installed the MOBO everything worked fine.

The MACHINE_EXCEPTION_ERROR kept coming up.

Now I have no sound at all and I have reinstalled the drivers and included the latest drivers.

Nothing I do will work. The sound was there one day, gone the enxt.

Any ideas?

 

I'm having the same problem with an ASUS P4V8X-MX board - except in my case it never worked. I had to scrounge up an old PCI sound card.

I've never had a problem with ASUS boards before.

 

I am about to literally destroy this entire computer. I am absolutely fed up.

How in the world can it work and then just stop?

When I re-install the MOBO drivers there isnt even a single thing listed as saying REALTEKAC97.

All it says is chipset drivers and video chipset.

I could have swore it said audio drivers but nothing. How can that dissapear off a f*&*** disc?

Re-installing that doesnt do anything anyways. Updated drivers by realtek do nothing but execute MCHINE _EXCEPTION_ERROR.

I think Biostar MOBO just sucks.

 

Did you recently install any Windows Updates before this happened?

I worked on a machine that had something similar happen to it. It was caused by a Windows Update. I had to go to Microsoft to get the fix.

It may not be the same issue, but I thought it might help.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=74AD4188-3131-429C-8FCB-F7B3B0FD3D86&displaylang=en

and/or check out this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920872

 

Thanks for the replies. I installed both xp patch and the realtek drivers. Before I re-started my computer I got sound but I had turn my speakers all the way up.

When I restarted, I got nothing.

I know its an onboard sound. Do I need to re-install the MOBO all over again?

Should I clear CMOS?

Thanks.

 

It now seems to work occassionally when I re-start the computer but when I get a Machine_Exception_Error and then physical dump of memory, it goes back to not working.

I jsut dont understand the conflict here?

 

Maybe there is a short in the motherboard. Try a sound card. They are cheap, quick and you will prob get better sound

 

Could mean a number of different things. It could be something wrong with the RAM, not enough space on hard drive, wrong drivers, something not getting the correct voltage, incorrect type of RAM, many different issues associated with motherboard.

Is your RAM compatible with the motherboard? Again I'm just shooting in the dark. It could be anything. You'll have to do the process of elimination.

When your computer does boot up normally, are there any x's or ?'s in device manager? confused

 

nO X'S OR o'S ON BOOT UP. Ram is 2 gig. Hard drive 250 gig.
MOBO is a Biostar Geforce6100 m-9.

I always have to hit f1 for some reason. It wont go into verifying DMI.POOL on its own. Havent figured that one out yet.

Sometimes on boot up the audio just wants to work. Others it doesnt. Really weird. I think everything is fine with the memory.

 

Look at the capacitors on the motherboard.

http://www.badcaps.net/