New SATA drive problems (w/ sound)

[awesomeincalg]

Hey all,

I put in a new Maxtor Diamond 10 SATA 250 gig, and for some reason, my audio controller isn't working ie. no sound and it isn't recognised.

All the latest drivers but I get a 'invalid data' screen when i go to install new AC 97 drivers.

MSI - 6590 board, MX 4000 AGP card, 1.5 gigs RAM, and on board sound.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Bob

[jmet]

Do you have the audio card installation disc?

Is it on board audio?

[awesomeincalg]

It's on board jmet...

[jmet]

Then it is on the "Motherboard - Installation CD" that came with the motherboard.

[awesomeincalg]

I D/L the latest drivers from MSI but get the 'invalid data' error on install...ARRGH! I've checked every setting I can think of as well...

[jmet]

Install the drives from the actual CD that came with the motherboard, then update from there.

[awesomeincalg]

Unfortunately, I don't have the original MB CD any longer. Can you say poop? Knew ya could!

[awesomeincalg]

BTW...the funny thing is, sound still works on the old IDE PATA drive! Just not the SATA...hmmm

[awesomeincalg]

Just to close this matter...

After didling with this problem for 3 days, I had to mirror my old drive to the new one using MaxBlast 4. There was no other way to get sound back again...But, in the process I lost system restore and msconfig.

Looks like a repair install is next...