| Here is what I had to do to get audio working on the Virgin Webplayer after downloading the Larwe device drivers from his website and unzipping them. When I would go into device manager, right click on properties and select update driver, the program could never find the right driver. When I would "specify the location" for the Larwe audio drivers on my harddrive, it would not recognize them. At some point you are given the option of "looking at all the drivers in the same location"--choose that and select "sound,...", then in the left box choose National semiconductor, then in the right box choose the "...pci bridge" or the "...16-bit Sound"--I selected both at different times and eventually got it right (no yellow exclamation marks). However, I still could not get the sound to work. I remembered that during one of my earlier endless attempts I had gone into bios setup and changed the sound setup to "auto" instead of "enabled". In a last desparate attempt I went back into bios setup (notebook key during boot-up)selected "adavanced" and "sound..." and changed the setting to "enabled". At the next boo-up I noticed that little speaker icon at the bottom right of my screen. It never looked so good. Still no sound until I went into mixer, and as has been poster here, muted the line-in and cd sound. Viola! it worked.
In device manager, under "Sound, video and game controllers" I now have the following:
Gameport joystick
MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device (yellow exclamation mark)
National Express Audio (TM) 16-bit sound
National Express Audio (TM) PCI Bridge
National Express Audio (TM) PCI Bridge
I know I should not have two PCI Bridge entries, and one of my last changes created the Yellow mark on the MIDI Device--but the sound works and I am not changing anything now. The last thing I did is create a "Restore Point" in Windows ME (which is great in case something goes wrong later.)
Hope this helps. | |
