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Sound Solution for Drivers under WindowsME on a V5
Problem installing a sound driver on a V5 under WindowsME

New MessageSound Solution for Drivers under WindowsME on a V5 (modified 0 times) DBoy
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I keep reading threads about problems installing drivers for sound under ME. Some people say it's no sweat and others try for months. I have found a solution. I took a V5 and installed one of Codeman's V5 bios chips. I then copied all needed drivers and cab files onto a laptop drive to do my install. I did the normal ME install and had the OS up and running except for the additional drivers. When you complete a ME install you still need to install the video driver, modem driver, and sound driver. Here is the important step...... Install the video driver first, OS prompts you to reboot, reboot. Then install the sound driver (VIA PCI Sound), It works immediately, no reboot! I was confused for weeks trying to get sound working on a V5. Install after install I tried installing the sound first. If you install the sound first you will never get it working. I don't know why. I've tried this on two seperate V5s and it works. Good luck!
11-17-2000 13:26:22

New MessageRE:Sound Solution for Drivers under WindowsME on a V5--this works! (modified 0 times) davidi
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I have a v5 (2001 edition)running windowsME, too. I tried and tried to install the sound drivers. The driver kept complaining that the sound was not enabled in the BIOS. There was no setting to enable sound that I could find.

BUT.... I re-installed winME and installed the video drivers first.
Then installed the sound drivers.
The I-O kept complaining that the sound wasn't enabled.
I gave up, and decided to just use the "silent" I-O anyway.
Then after about 5-10 re-boots--The thing decided that it wanted to work.


I am using a BIOS chip I got from BADFLASH.COM version 5.0.0.
I think that the reason I was having so much trouble was the fact that I installed winME on another machine, installed a bunch of software off of CD's, booted into safe mode, and deleted everything from device manager. Then installed the drive in the I-O. The sound and video are working great now though! Thanks for the tip!

03-05-2001 14:05:00

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