My computer seems not to recognise my sound card ( Creative Sound
Blaster)people can hear me when I call their computer or Skype them but
I cannot hear them. I have downloaded drivers form Acer's ftp, I have
also ran a disk check because I kept getting messages that some of my
programmes are corrupted, so then I flashed the Bios, reformatted,
re-installed windows..........all to no avail, here is the message I get
when I try to install SoundBlaster " Set up could not detect any Sound
Blaster Audio card on your system. Please ensure that your Sound
Blaster hardware is properly installed before running this set up
programme" any ideas ?



Thanks in advance for any help.

What os are you running?

windows xp sp2?

Hello Red..................Windows XP SP2

You don't happen to know the model to the sound card, do you? I can
check to see what's up with it.... If you want.

There are several Creative Sound Blaster Sound Cards. I would love to
help you out. If you know the model number, please share and I will see
what's up, if you don't mind, BonnyMiss....

Hold on for a moment please Red, I will look for the model number

ok

Hello Red..........thank you so much for responding, I'v managed to fix
it, I took most of the dirvers out and re-installed them again after the
4th disk check and repair !!!

I think it is time to get back to using the computer I built myself
insteda of this Acer one ( my daughter's) AND I think I will try Linux
OS...........know anything about it ? I was told that Linux may not be
compatible with some of my graphics and animation programmes


Would love to hear about your viesw on this. Major thanks for your help.

Bonny

BonnyMiss,

Nothing you have on your computer will run on Linux, unless you use some
sort of emulator. Windows XP SP2 is a great OS, unless you just want a
change, I wouldn't.

BonnyMiss, you flashed your bios?? Last time I tried to do that, I
failed - I couldn't find what I needed, whether it was the right bios
image or some flashing software which would work for my older machine.


For anyone reading this thread that is having serious problems with
their soundcard, you can buy a tiny usb sound device for under $20
(ebay) which makes a great work-around.


>> Nothing you have on your computer will run on Linux, unless you use some sort of emulator.

I think what Spider is saying here is that, most likely, much of your
-current software- will not run natively on Linux.

Of course, if you happened to already be using Firefox, Open Office, and
Java-based programs (Limewire) - then fresh downloads of all of -those-
programs WILL run just the same under Linux.

Plus, as spider noted, since you have a windows partition already, if
you have a fast machine its possible you would be able to run a full
windows session in virtual machine and run -all- of your windows-based
software.

If you want to give a Linux distribution a spin, you can download and
burn (or buy on the cheap) a Linux live CD, which will allow you to test
drive it without changing your current system at all (unless you tell it
to).

In any case, I would certainly -keep- your XP partition.

To all the lovely peeps who came to my aid................

A BIG THANK YOU

Finally got my puter sorted and my Soundblaster woiks !!!


I ran a disk check, which managed to clear some of the fluff, also ran my "Crap Cleaner "...............that took some of the residue of some of the registry values left behind from uninstalled programmes, I then set to work with Uniblue and it repaired some of the registry entries.Now to de-frag

Hurrah !! Woiking !!!