Hi guys, I'm hoping somoene can give me a hand here, because I'm on my last nerve: I have an old(er) HP Pavilion 8176 which came with an Analog Devices 1816 sound card. After installing Windows 2000, I've lost sound. The device manager does not report any conflicts relating to the sound card, and says that all sound-related devices are working properly. I can actually play an audio file and it'll work fine, just won't output any sound. In terms of its behavior, the computer just looks/acts as though it's on mute (which isn't the case, of course) I've gone into the BIOS to mess around with the settings, but to no avail. The current driver was installed by Win2k setup, but I'm not positive that it's the right one. Either way, I have been unable to find a W2k driver for AD1816 - and I'm not even sure it exists since the sound card was developed during Win95 days, and AD hasn't done much for it since. HP knows nothing about it, and refuses to provide any support, though I did manage to find a related post on the HP forum - some guy having a similar problem said "The error was actually that the OS was not able to use PNP to configure the device. I tried many things but had to manually allocate resources for the sound card in the BIOS and then everything worked good" -- I'm not sure I understand what he means here... Does anybody have an idea of what the BIOS settings should be? Any suggestions, pointers would be greatly appreciated.... If it's not too much trouble, could you also email me your responses? (msteciuk@umich.edu) Thank you in advance! Maggie

Not knowing what options are available in your HP's BIOS makes trying to provide a step-by-step guide very difficult. However... While in the BIOS setup program, you need to look for "PNP and PCI Setup", or something like that. Within this setup screen, you must select the sound card's IRQ (usually set by jumper on these old sound cards to IRQ5) for the actual slot that your sound card occupies on your motherboard. For example, my motherboard has four PCI slots. I can set any slot to any IRQ (they all default to "auto" so the operating system can automatically determine the best settings). If your sound card is in slot 2, then set slot 2 to the same IRQ as your sound card. Now, within the same setup screen you should also have a listing of all the available IRQs (usually 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15) that can be set to "legacy" mode (for non-PnP cards). Set the IRQ used by your sound card to "yes". Restart into W2K and see if W2K will properly recognize the sound card. You may need to go into Device Manager and manually set the sound card's IRQ (and address, usually 220h) to the sound card's settings. That should get it working. Of course, you could always dump this antiquated POS and buy an inexpensive PnP sound card ($25 or less) that will work right out of the box with W2K. Just a thought... I hope this helps... Steve

Hi! Can someone help me found drivers for Windows 2000 sound AD1816 . Thank you.