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Offline pymcat

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lordy i hope you can help
« on: December 07, 2003, 02:48:03 PM »
my neighbour had to come and help me reinstall winxp last week because
i had major problems..anyway thats working  but now my soundmax card adi 1885
is not listed in device mgr so i have no sounds..i called dell and spent 2hours with a tech in India and i couldnot reinstall the soundmax from the dell drivers resource
cd..it would start to reinstall and then finish and say no driver found could not install.  i went and dl the sm drivers( and they are the same driver that were on resource cd)..
trying to figure out prob by searching the web i see that maybe i should have installed intel chipset utility so (i have 845Echipset) but after dl file and running setup i get error  that says"error while creating product key under silent install:install result=fail" i read the notepad notes and it says something about adding flags which i tried various combos and could not figure.

can anyone help me get my soundmax installed again..i cant listen to any music on comp..thanks

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lordy i hope you can help
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2003, 11:28:21 PM »
Make sure onboard audio is enabled in BIOS. Search net for drivers for the soundmax but check web site of maker of motherboard for sound drivers.  Failing that buy a $20 SoundBlaster card and disable onboard sound.
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