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Sound card driver - cannot install

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by mfh

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OK, I tried the answers given on my earlier question (sound card not working) and downloaded a new driver and attempted to update the driver. In the Update Wizard, I keep getting message that it "cannot find any driver at that location". I have tried saving to the hard drive, and burning a cd with the drivers, but that doesn't work.
Any ideas?

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by dmiles

Check the sound cards manufacturers web site and be sure to download file compatible to the operating system,download the file to a floppy

Open the control panel,then click the device manager tab,select the sound card from the list and click remove,answer yes
Reboot computer and when the found new hardware wizard starts,select the option to select from list and then proceed to manually install the sound card driver by following the on screen prompts
Hope this helps

by joe

Make sure that the driver you downloaded is not a self extracing file. Sometimes you have to extract those drivers to a temp directory and when installing the card point to that directory.

by cg it

What sound card is it? and what O/S are you running?. Sometimes, Windows just doesn't like the driver you give it even if it's the correct driver for the correct O/S(had that problem with a NIC card). Try using device manager reinstall/update driverspecifing a location in lieu of add/remove hardware Wizard. As others have probably suggested, uninstall the hardware. power down, physically take the card out of the box, power up, then power back down and replace the sound card in a different PCI slot. Power on and let windows detect the hardware again. When loading drivers, specify the location re: a:/W2000/*ini instead of having the wizard try and find the driver.

by rcom

As mentioned the driver may be a zipped or executable file. Look through the files and see if a setup.exe or install.exe is included. Run that then the OS will detect and install the drivers. Also there is usually a readme.txt file file included with instructions.

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