No sound after xp install

[TorontoKid]

Guys, I don't know what to do here. I installed windows xp on my system and now my sound hardware is not responing. My system is:

athlon 750
k7v mobo (with o/b sound)
windows xp pro
256 ram
80 gb hd

I have the asus cd that came with the mobo, it has the 4in1 driver that should have the sound, but I think it's for win98. I went to the asus site and didnt' see any windows xp drivers for the k7v. Any Ideas?

[lil Jimmie]

Does the sound card show up in device manager? XP has support for VIA 4-1’s built in, have you checked MS for updates yet?

[TorontoKid]

ok, just noticed that it supports the 4in1, but how about the IDE drivers? do they have to be installed?

[Jason Padgett]

Yes...you should install all of the drivers that came with your mobo drivers cd.

[mike breck]

You should also ask yourself whether you really want to use AC'97 sound. It's very CPU intensive.

You'd be much better with a dedicated soundcard. If you don't wan't to spend too much, then the Hercules Muse is a great little soundcard which is in the $20-30 range.

If you play games, it's something to consider.

[chadryans]

Another good soundcard would be Creative SBLive I use it for internet radio. About a $70 when I bought it a lil over a year ago and have had no problems. Great for gaming, MP3 or just your average sound. :-D Just my 2 cents

[TorontoKid]

ok guys I think I know what went wrong. When I did a fresh install of xp, I didn't change the boot order and alot of the stuff from my hard drive was already there after xp installed. I guess I had all my old drivers already there conflickting with what xp tried to install. So I went into bios and changed the boot order so that I could boot form the xp disc. That worked fine, but now I've screwed up the install somehow. I read that I didn't have to do an fdisk to do a clean istall of xp, so I just booted up. I chose to delete the only partition the my HD had. Then I selected to install xp in the one new partition. When asked if I wanted Fat32 or ntsf, I chose ntsf, then it started formatting the drive....it took forever, but when it finished, i got this message "Setup was unable to format the partition, the disk may be damaged. Make sure the drive is switched on and properly connected to yor computer. if the disk is a scsi disk, make sure your scsi devices are propertly terminated. Consult your computer manual or scsi adapter documentation for more info. You must select a different partition for Windows xp. to continue press enter"

But I can't install in the other partition because it is only 8mb. I then chose to delete the large partition again and try to install it again, but I got the same error message. When I reboot, I chose not to hit any key so it just boots up, but it say it can't start the operation system.

Any ideas how I can install xp and fix the problem? I know that my disc is not damaged, so what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[mike breck]

Does the BIOS see the full capacity of the HD?

If not, you may have been using a Drive Overlay software program to allow the BIOS to use the 80Gb.

[TorontoKid]

Sorry mike, I don't understand what your saying. I'm not familiar with that. Can you explain it?

[Blakhart]

Does bios tell you that your 80 gig drive is indeed 80 gigs as seen by the bios? Also, if you have never cleaned your cdr with one of those cd's with brushes embedded, I have seen data corruption such as yours reduced by cleaning the cdr. A corruption during the fdisk/format process is what I am getting at.
At the last, you might try the drive maker's utility to zero the drive, erasing every part of the drive, then you pop the xp cd and format/install as usual. The zeroing will ensure a clean mbt and that nothing "unwanted" is on the drive.
Oh yeah, and may the Allmighty have mercy on you if you have a ibm gxp series drive...