Guest Emjaykay Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Hi, I am running Windows XP SP2 on a 3.3ghz machine with 2gb RAM. Motherboard has sound and video on board. A couple weeks ago I lost my sound card did some stuff and tried to re install drivers but it just hangs. The sound card is not recognised (AC97 on the motherboard). When I logged off the computer would not shut down and hung. I had to physically turn it off. It is still the same today except if I switch off in safe mode no apparent problems. Now it is a dog loading up and takes an age. USB connected equipment (printer, backup drives, camera) is not always recognised. I tried to uninstall the USBs and it would not let me, I tried to search for new HW it hangs. I booted into safe mode and removed the USBs rebooted and it recognised them one at a time but hung. i had to reboot each time for it to recognise the next USB but it still does not recognise my attached equipment. I have disconnected every USB port and it did recognise the printer started to load drivers and then hung. But after a forced reboot the printer works. If I try to install anything, search for new hardware or do anything in device manager it hangs. No error messages in device manager. In the event viewer the only errors I am seeing are Servcie control manager with different evenets but event # 7000, 7023, 7031, 10010 appear to be prevalent. Any ideas? Mick.
Guest RalfG Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Re: USB & sound card not recognised Check in the computer BIOS that your onboard sound card is still turned on. System restore to a point two weeks ago, before the sound stopped working. If that doesn't solve the various driver problems you can resort to the " Last Known Good" configuration from the [F8] Safe Mode boot options list. You might have to reinstall some software after that. If the computer still doesn't run normally you may have to resort to a repair install of XP, or a System Recovery if your XP was preinstalled by the PC manufacturer. In that case probably any software that you added to the computer will have to be reinstalled. "Emjaykay" <Emjaykay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D0CD728A-AED0-4B61-A1C6-FC4AFD6D88E6@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I am running Windows XP SP2 on a 3.3ghz machine with 2gb RAM. Motherboard > has sound and video on board. > > A couple weeks ago I lost my sound card did some stuff and tried to re > install drivers but it just hangs. The sound card is not recognised (AC97 > on > the motherboard). > > When I logged off the computer would not shut down and hung. I had to > physically turn it off. It is still the same today except if I switch off > in > safe mode no apparent problems. > > Now it is a dog loading up and takes an age. USB connected equipment > (printer, backup drives, camera) is not always recognised. I tried to > uninstall the USBs and it would not let me, I tried to search for new HW > it > hangs. > > I booted into safe mode and removed the USBs rebooted and it recognised > them > one at a time but hung. i had to reboot each time for it to recognise the > next USB but it still does not recognise my attached equipment. I have > disconnected every USB port and it did recognise the printer started to > load > drivers and then hung. But after a forced reboot the printer works. > > If I try to install anything, search for new hardware or do anything in > device manager it hangs. No error messages in device manager. > > In the event viewer the only errors I am seeing are Servcie control > manager > with different evenets but event # 7000, 7023, 7031, 10010 appear to be > prevalent. > > Any ideas? > > Mick.
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