sound card

[Karl]

I just installed Windows XP into my old computer -- and
the drivers do not seem to work with my sound card.
Looking under the Control Panel/Audio Devices/Hardware
tab shows something called "Legacy Audio Drivers," and
troubleshooting says it's working OK. But the Volume tab
shows no audio device installed, and volume and speaker
settings are dimmed.

My sound card is ASOUND EXPRESS PCI card (chip ALS4000).
The CD that came with the card did not include driver for
Windows XP, just older versions. I was able to find a
driver on the internet and download it -- consists of a
set of .sys and .dll files but no setup program. Also
the CD that came with the card does not have a setup
program.

I tried the plug and play process from Windows 98 --
turned the computer off, removed the card, and restarted,
then turned the computer off, reinstalled the card, and
restarted again. It did not detect new hardware.

So how do I find an install program for the sound card
drivers?

[Mary Sauer]

There is no setup for sound cards per se. When you update the driver, do it through
the device manager. In the control panel, open the system folder, hardware, device
manager tab button, expand sound, video and gaming, right-click your sound card,
properties, update driver, tick "install from a list or specific location (advanced),
tick "Don't search, I will choose the driver to install", tick "have disk" browse to
the folder where you downloaded the driver.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://dgl.microsoft.com/
http://mvps.org/msauer/
"Karl" > wrote in message
...
> I just installed Windows XP into my old computer -- and
> the drivers do not seem to work with my sound card.
> Looking under the Control Panel/Audio Devices/Hardware
> tab shows something called "Legacy Audio Drivers," and
> troubleshooting says it's working OK. But the Volume tab
> shows no audio device installed, and volume and speaker
> settings are dimmed.
>
> My sound card is ASOUND EXPRESS PCI card (chip ALS4000).
> The CD that came with the card did not include driver for
> Windows XP, just older versions. I was able to find a
> driver on the internet and download it -- consists of a
> set of .sys and .dll files but no setup program. Also
> the CD that came with the card does not have a setup
> program.
>
> I tried the plug and play process from Windows 98 --
> turned the computer off, removed the card, and restarted,
> then turned the computer off, reinstalled the card, and
> restarted again. It did not detect new hardware.
>
> So how do I find an install program for the sound card
> drivers?