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g.watson · 02-18-2006, 05:12 AM

I have a V333U m/board with built-in C-Media sound card, which used to run on Win98SE without any problem. After I upgraded to Win2K, the sound card isn't recognised. When I try to reinstall it, it goes through all the process, but then stops with "Cannot load cmuda.sys". Does anyone know whether there is a different version of this driver for Win2K? I've downloaded all the versions I could find anywhere on the net, which turned out to be only two: 5.12.1.39 and 5.12.1.20, but the PC won't accept/load either. Every time I boot Win2k, it "finds" a new hardware device and tries to install it - same result. I tried going through hardware manager and reinstalling the drivers: same result. After searching on Google for threads like mine (there are plenty out there, so I guess a lot of people are having this problem) I haven't found a solution, so I've had to disable onboard sound in the BIOS. One other clue: I bought a cheapo Mime sound card (I'm not interested in studio quality, just normal sound) and it wouldn't recognise that either, so maybe it's a BIOS problem?

02-18-2006, 05:12 AM	#1
g.watson Member (2 bit) Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3	C-media onboard sound card drivers refuse to load I have a V333U m/board with built-in C-Media sound card, which used to run on Win98SE without any problem. After I upgraded to Win2K, the sound card isn't recognised. When I try to reinstall it, it goes through all the process, but then stops with "Cannot load cmuda.sys". Does anyone know whether there is a different version of this driver for Win2K? I've downloaded all the versions I could find anywhere on the net, which turned out to be only two: 5.12.1.39 and 5.12.1.20, but the PC won't accept/load either. Every time I boot Win2k, it "finds" a new hardware device and tries to install it - same result. I tried going through hardware manager and reinstalling the drivers: same result. After searching on Google for threads like mine (there are plenty out there, so I guess a lot of people are having this problem) I haven't found a solution, so I've had to disable onboard sound in the BIOS. One other clue: I bought a cheapo Mime sound card (I'm not interested in studio quality, just normal sound) and it wouldn't recognise that either, so maybe it's a BIOS problem?