My Sound is not working...

[Chewy]

motherboard resources????????

a yellow exclaimation mark in device manager?

at least now your boot files should all be on your boot drive

loading a computer is easy once you learn the rules, but one screwup and you might as well start over

[katzdvd]

motherboard resources????????

a yellow exclaimation mark in device manager?

No exclamation mark Chewy; Sorry, I should have explained it clearer.
I was just looking thru the different components & I noticed that.

I saw the no drivers installed & just wondered about it.

[Chewy]

looks like that damn pci sound card, where did you get the drivers for it?

[katzdvd]

http://www.audiotrak.net/support_download.htm

Maya 7.1 v.5.20 - I know, they are old...

[katzdvd]

Ok, just discovered something here. Sound has worked fine since the clean install, almost 2 days. I just ran shrink/multi-shrink, did 3 movies, & now my sound is gone. (until I reboot)

What does this mean?

[doctorhardware]

It sounds like it might be messing with the driver or maybe the buss. Just a thought.

[katzdvd]

It sounds like it might be messing with the driver or maybe the buss. Just a thought.

I just don't know what to think after all the troubleshooting we have done, plus my history with this setup. Come to think of it, it has lost sound in the past when I wasn't working with video.

Remember, this problem has been occuring with any sound card that I install, & also when I was using the onboard sound when I first setup the pc.

That is the problem; I can't seem to nail it down to any one upgrade/change/other.

[doctorhardware]

Then the only commonalty is the mother board.

[Chewy]

that's an old sound card, are you sure the onboard sound was messing up after a clean install and the Maya card had not even been in the computer

[katzdvd]

are you sure the onboard sound was messing up after a clean install

yes sir; I can say for certain that it was.

There was a time when I had threw out my old soundblaster, & I had reformatted/clean install & used the onboard sound. I was using the ide drives, no sata. Altho, I was using VIA chipset drivers back then...

[Chewy]

capture a sensor reading in the middle of a multishrink operation some time,
something is overheating? or at least close to the end of a heavy duty shrink compression

[katzdvd]

capture a sensor reading in the middle of a multishrink operation some time,
something is overheating? or at least close to the end of a heavy duty shrink compression

I will do that, just out of curiosity as to what is overheating. The pc is as clean as a pin, so I know it is not that.

As a side note - overheating issue from new? Rem., I have had this problem pretty much right from the start.

However, I am getting really tired of chasing this down, & I have been considering moving on to another pc. I was looking at the barebones kits at newegg & zipzoomfly; Does any one model catch your eye?

Trying to work on a slim budget here, as I guess I need to assemble (2), since the one that I was working on for my son is not suitable for a gaming rig.

[Chewy]

the problem being the motherboard doesn't make any sense unless a chipset that's controlling the pci bus and onboard sound is somehow dropping the ball

pull the sound card and use the onboard, but be sure and uninstall any funky drivers or software for that soundcard

[katzdvd]

Using onboard sound right now - uuck! It is horrible! It has always been "noisy", i.e., when you move the mouse, you can hear light buzzing in the speakers.

I just ran multi shrink on 2 movies for about 1/2 hr. Light to med. compression rates. My temps at the highest were;

Mobo - 71
CPU - 109
Sata HD - 93

[Chewy]

if you want highest quality sound you have to spend the bucks

is it cutting out? that's the only pertinent question. onboard sound?

I think the whole problem is that funky sound card and old drivers that weren't updated for xp and sp2