I had to replace a Mobo for a friend and run a reinstall. As I always do, I have had trouble with the sound drivers. Bought the Mobo off Ebay, so no driver discs.
Motherboard model: 865M08-G-2KS
Make: Acer
PC: XP SP2 (dl'ing the upgrade to sp3 now)
In device manager the Vendor\Device number and any other info I can glean:
VEN_8086&DEV_24D5&subsys_0
0311025&RE
V_02\3&13C
0B0C5&0&FD
I have been here:
http://www.pcidatabase.com/ and found that they are AC'97 SoundMAX or VIA. There is a link there, but the page needs "more info", which doesn' t help me because I can only search for Sony products.
Found that these Mobo's may have once lived in a Veriton 3600. Went to Acer site, found the appropriate model and audio drivers. Installed, but still no sound. Device manager shows everything as a-ok - no yellow exclamation marks or errors of any kind.
I found some soundmax drivers, but it stated the driver was not installed during installation (?), so obviously incorrect. I found some VIA Vinyl drivers, which did install, but still have no sound. Same thing as before: Device manager says all good, but can't hear a damn thing!
And yes, I checked the volume control to be sure. Is my understanding correct that there is a volume control panel apart from the volume control that could be turned down? Or am I trippin on that one?
Thanks for all your help. I have been very successful here in the past and look forward to seeing you geniuses pull me out of a ditch again! :)
