'the chas'

It is common for a sound card to show up as "other" when the driver isn't installed.

Is it a seperate plug in card?
Or is the sound built into the Mother board?

If it is a seperate sound card, open up the caes, and look at the card.
Preferably, there will be a manufactures name, and model number printed on the card.
If so, you then need to go to their web site, and download the correct driver for the card.
If there isn't a manufacture ID on the card, look for an FCC identification number. There is a link on the www.driverguide.com to the FCC database. From there, you can identify the manufacture.

Otherwise, you need to identify who made the sound controller IC on the card.
Common mfgrs are ess, aureal, crystal, Sound Blaster.
There are links to all at www.driverguide.com
For Aureal, use www.vortexofsound.com

If the sound is part of the motherboard, it is a little bit tougher to find the driver.
Again, look at the mother board and see if you can find a manufactures name and model number.
If that fails, write down the string of charaters that is displayed at the bottom of the screen while the memory is counting up at boot.
This is the BIOS ID string.
Go to either www.wimsbios.com
or www.motherboards.org
They can help you determine who made the motherboard from the BIOS string.
You will then need to browse around at the MB mfg site to identify the exact board you have.
Once identified, you can download the drivers.

The next step would be to determine who made the IC's on the motherboard, and download the reference driver from them.

Let me know if I can be of further help.

Chas

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SUCCESS !! Got the driver at driverguide.com-
for me it was a challenge-no card,I kinda knew that,could not get the #s' from boards to show anything usefull by entering into google-was gettin' a bit frustrated & had it on its' side-found the toshiba/3100 whatever on its bottom & from there it was pretty smoothe for one so 'teck-challenged' as I -Thanks again!!