ac97 sound system

[jimbob]

ok, I just replaced my neighbors motherboard because it died. He had a gigabyte 7zx-1, we replaced it with a matsonic 8127c. Both boards have the ac97 sound-chip. When we installed the new board, the sound doesn't work. I can't get the volume-control to show up in the system tray, and the audio properties in the control panel show no playback device. I've loaded all the drivers I can find for ac97, removed everything from safe-mode device manager, nothing is working. I put in another hd with a fresh install of me and it is working fine...is there any way to make this work without formatting his drive & reinstalling windows (he has windows me).

Thanks for any help

 

[tdean]

sounds like the audio is disabled in either the bios or on the board itself. check manual for audio jumper settings, then check bios.