Installing Sound Blaster 16 PCI

[Don Henthorn]

I have a Giga Bytes GA7zx motherboard with an 800mhz duron
processer and 256 of ram. I tried installing the SB16PCI
and it couldn't find the drivers. Downloaded the latest
drivers and unzipped them. Supposedly they went where they
should be. Still wouldn't load the drivers. Then Win98SE
would no longer detect the new hardware. Was told to
disable the on board sound and did so. Still wouldn't go.
Contacted Giga Bytes and downloaded the latest drivers for
the motherboard. This was with Win98SE. Still wouldn't
detect the new hardware. Was told that if I upgraded to XP
my troubles would diaappear. Upgraded. Got an MRA from
Creative and sent the card to them. Today, two weeks later
I have it back. Made sure the on board sound was still
disabled. Couldn't find any remaining software in the
normal places. Installed the SB card which was certified to
be working. WinXP didn't detect the new hardware. Tried
the start/run/h: routine and supposedly installed the card
that way. Doesn't work. No sound and although the Sound
Blaster shows up in the Control Panel/add/remove programs
list it doesn't seem to be found by the CD or system
sounds. Help!!!!

[Binomial]

Right clik my computer and click properties, select the hardware tab and
click Add Hardware Wizard, click Yes option when it arrives and press next
aftere this a list of installed hardware drivers would arrive. scroll down
to the extreeme and select add a new hardware device, click install the
hardware that i .......... (advanced) and click next from there select
sound, video and game controllers and give the location where ur new drivers
are either on the driver cd that came with ur sound card or a location on
the HDD where u know the drivers are present

[Don Henthorn]

>-----Original Message-----
>Right clik my computer and click properties, select
.............the HDD where u know the drivers are present
>


Thanks Binomial, I tried your suggestion but when I
inserted the disc from which to copy the drivers I got the
message "The specified location does not contain
information about your hardware." This is weird. I went
into system info and also device manager and there is no
hint of Sound Blaster there although the first install
attempt went through easy hopefully for the better.
Something is keeping Windows from seeing the hardware.
I've been without sound for a month now. Creative had a
lousy tech system which they have just chamged. I don't
get system sounds or CD sound. If Itry tp play a CD I get
the news that the sound card isn't there.

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Don Henthorn" > wrote in message
...
> I have a Giga Bytes GA7zx motherboard with an 800mhz duron
> processer and 256 of ram. I tried installing the SB16PCI
> and it couldn't find the drivers. Downloaded the latest
> drivers and unzipped them. Supposedly they went where they
> should be. Still wouldn't load the drivers. Then Win98SE
> would no longer detect the new hardware. Was told to
> disable the on board sound and did so. Still wouldn't go.
> Contacted Giga Bytes and downloaded the latest drivers for
> the motherboard. This was with Win98SE. Still wouldn't
> detect the new hardware. Was told that if I upgraded to XP
> my troubles would diaappear. Upgraded. Got an MRA from
> Creative and sent the card to them. Today, two weeks later
> I have it back. Made sure the on board sound was still
> disabled. Couldn't find any remaining software in the
> normal places. Installed the SB card which was certified to
> be working. WinXP didn't detect the new hardware. Tried
> the start/run/h: routine and supposedly installed the card
> that way. Doesn't work. No sound and although the Sound
> Blaster shows up in the Control Panel/add/remove programs
> list it doesn't seem to be found by the CD or system
> sounds. Help!!!!

Do you have a generic PCI device in your Device Manager? Some PCI
cards do not know what they are until you install the appropriate
driver. PCI modems work that way. If you see a generic PCI device,
install the sound card drivers to it and it might wake up and say,
"Hey! I'm a sound card."


--
Earl F. Parrish

[Don Henthorn]

>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Don Henthorn" > wrote in message
...
>> I have a Giga Bytes GA7zx motherboard with an 800mhz duron
>> processer and 256 of ram. I tried installing the SB16PCI
>> and it couldn't find the drivers. Downloaded the latest
>> drivers and unzipped them. Supposedly they went where they
>> should be. Still wouldn't load the drivers. Then Win98SE
>> would no longer detect the new hardware. Was told to
>> disable the on board sound and did so. Still wouldn't go.
>> Contacted Giga Bytes and downloaded the latest drivers for
>> the motherboard. This was with Win98SE. Still wouldn't
>> detect the new hardware. Was told that if I upgraded to XP
>> my troubles would diaappear. Upgraded. Got an MRA from
>> Creative and sent the card to them. Today, two weeks later
>> I have it back. Made sure the on board sound was still
>> disabled. Couldn't find any remaining software in the
>> normal places. Installed the SB card which was certified to
>> be working. WinXP didn't detect the new hardware. Tried
>> the start/run/h: routine and supposedly installed the card
>> that way. Doesn't work. No sound and although the Sound
>> Blaster shows up in the Control Panel/add/remove programs
>> list it doesn't seem to be found by the CD or system
>> sounds. Help!!!!
>
>Do you have a generic PCI device in your Device Manager?
Some PCI
>cards do not know what they are until you install the
appropriate
>driver. PCI modems work that way. If you see a generic
PCI device,
>install the sound card drivers to it and it might wake up
and say,
>"Hey! I'm a sound card."
>
>
>--
>Earl F. Parrish
>
>.
>No. I had that for a while with Win98SE but could never
get it to load the drivers which it said were missing.
WinXP has never detected the card. I wonder if I deleted
all the files under the sound video and game controllers in
device manager if that might help it find the new hardware?