Hi, i recently reformatted my harddrive without thinking about the drivers. Now the computer wont play any sound, when on winamp it states i have a bad direct sound driver and DXdiag says i have no sound driver.

im not sure what sound installments i have, when i go into device manager, one of the listed is an MPU-401 compatible midi device. Is that what i need drivers for?.. ( although it says it already has drivers)

Thanks loads
~Sam

What is your motherboard type. Im unable to give drivers wehn i dunno your motherboard name/type. I have 4 example ABIT NF-SL 7. so whats yours? then i will look for drivers.

i have the same problem but i dont know how to find out what kind of mother board i have so if you tell me how to find it then ill tell you and yay you can help me

http://www.hwinfo.com/

Im having the same problem and have tried a couple of times to get the drivers i need but have been unsuccessful.

My details are as below:

Manufacturer: thepccompany
Model: KT400-8235
Chipset: VIA KT400 (VT8377)
Southbridge: VIA VT8235
Sensor: IT 0

If someone can supply me with the correct drivers it would be greatly apreciated.

Cheers!

Identify hardware:

http://www.hwinfo.com

http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en

I found it!
I had recently reformatted the HD and installed XP Pro w/SP2 resulting in NO SOUND from onboard C-Media AC97 which uses CMI8738 xp driver w/no conflicts. The fix was to disable mobo onchip USB in the BIOS.
...go figure!

Sabre_Blade

i have the same problem... i found i have N1996 mother board any help would be appreciated...

yo sabre_blade how do i disable mobo onchip USB in the BIOS.........

where do i access this