My Sound is not working...

[katzdvd]

Under system devices, I have:

VIA CPU to AGP Controller
VIA Standard Host Bridge
VIA Standard PCI to ISA Bridge

Only VIA I see anywhere...

EDIT: Last 2 are provided by by VIA Technologies.

[Chewy]

if you can't find anything is add and remove programs, look for via drivers that aren't certified to roll back

[katzdvd]

Sorry I keep running off; The missus is finding jobs for me to do!

add and remove programs

Bingo! There is a VIA Platform Device Manager/Hyperion Pro Setup Program in add/remove. Sounds like the culprit! Might as well throw away Realtek AC'97 Audio while I am in there too.

Those are the only entries that I see which are VIA related.

[Chewy]

We are going to end up with those benq's on the motherboard ide yet

and that quad core you are gonna build will be a breeze

[katzdvd]

Chewy - all VIA is uninstalled. Now, upon re-booting, "found new hardware";

SATA raid controller.

I let it try to find automatically & windows cannot find it. Do I need to install the sata driver from abit?

[Chewy]

if you can see your sata drives you are fine and didn't need a raid driver

[katzdvd]

if you can see your sata drives you are fine and didn't need a raid driver

Yeah, I realized that - D'oh! Trying to do too many things at one time.

I tried to record a streaming audio segment last eve. & the sound stopped about 1/2 way thru (60 min. radio show).
I guess there is some junk left over from the prev. driver setup, so I am off to do a clean install now. Only Windows drivers! If this doesn't fix it, then I am at a total loss...

[katzdvd]

Oh brother, another snag... Trying to install xp, didn't press F6 to install raid or 3rd party driver at setup, so I could keep windows free of the via drivers. However, since I didn't do that, I then get the message;

"Setup did not detect any HD connected to your computer"

It is not seeing the SATA drive w/out installing the raid driver.

[katzdvd]

If I choose to install the driver at (f6), I have 2 choices on this disc;

VIA RAID Controller/ Win XP
VIA ATA/ATAPI Host Controller/ Win XP

It seems if I don't do that, windows can't see the sata drive to continue the install...

I'm stuck!

[Chewy]

Windows Pre-OS installation Floppy Disk (F6 Installation)
Under Windows 2000 and later OS, while user intends to install OS on the disk attached on the RAID controller, they have to prepare a floppy driver disk including the pre-OS installation files and press “F6” while boot CD is starting.

The driver disk files had been prepared in this package. Please follow the steps to prepare it.

1. Make sure the target system is already install floppy drive

2. Prepare a empty and valid floppy disk

3. Copy all files under \DRVDISK to the floppy without losing

4. Power on the target machine and boot from the Boot CD. And press “F6” while the prompt appear on the button line

5. After the booting process ask you to insert the floppy disk, please insert the prepared floppy disk to the floppy drive and press enter

6. Choose the proper item to fit the OS and RAID controller you are installing. Each item shows the matched OS for it.

[katzdvd]

Near as I can tell, I *guess* I am supposed to install the VIA RAID controller.

What is the VIA ATA/ATAPI Host Controller/ Win XP for?

[Chewy]

in the driver file(folder 430g) there is a directory called drvdisk

the textsetup.oem and the i386 folder need to be put on the floppy

[SCSI]
VCOMBORAID_I386_NT5="VIA VT8237/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows XP/SRV2003)"
VCOMBORAID_I386_WIN2K="VIA VT8237/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows 2K)"
VCOMBORAID_I386_NT4="VIA VT8237/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows NT4)"

you then will have to choose your os but not any drivers

[katzdvd]

in the driver file(folder 430g) there is a directory called drvdisk

the textsetup.oem and the i386 folder need to be put on the floppy

[SCSI]
VCOMBORAID_I386_NT5="VIA VT8237/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows XP/SRV2003)"
VCOMBORAID_I386_WIN2K="VIA VT8237/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows 2K)"
VCOMBORAID_I386_NT4="VIA VT8237/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows NT4)"

you then will have to choose your os but not any drivers

Thanks so much! I read that before but had forgot about it. When you don't work on these things everyday, you tend to get a little rusty!

[Chewy]

make sure there are no pata drives connected to the motherboard

[katzdvd]

make sure there are no pata drives connected to the motherboard

I know, thanks for the reminder! I am back up & running, sp2 installed, all looks good in dev. manager.

No VIA installed, except under system devices;
VIA CPU to AGP Controller

Also, under Motherboard resources - It says, "there are no drivers installed for this device".

Is that right?

BTW, I have sound right now