??No audio Device??

Hello I just got a new\used tower and I am working on it trying to make it run and work a little better.

Well here my question.

My sound card dose not work wel it is a built in mother bord sound cards for a A7M266-D Motherboard and for some reason it dose not work.

It was working before and well I dont now why it dosent work I went to the Control panel, sound and audio devices and it sed that I have no audio devices.

I am runing windows Xp pro.

You said nothing about what you may have done before the sound stopped working. Try reinstalling the sound driver (particularly if you reformatted)

Well I did overclock my chip and well that it. Do you think that why it stop working?

aha, that is most likely the problem. Go into your bios, and lock the pci ratio at 33/66. The ratio is tied to your fsb, and if you don't lock it, when you overclock it will increase the pci bus speed, which can screw up things like your sound. Happened to me the exact same way.

I was thinking it was that but can you help me?

how do i get to my bios and fix this heh give me step by step help If you can.

thx

Ok Ok I found it and i set the Pci at 45 but it did not work shoud I put it up more or shoud I put it lower.

try 33mhz (you want it at the normal, non overclocked speed)

Ok I just wana know do you want me to change
the PCI Latency timer or is there something else I am supose to change?

Your mobo might not have a pci lock, so you would have to mess with the dividers to get the pci bus speed back to normal. I would say reset your bios to default settings and reinstall the sound driver, just to be sure it works. Then make note of the pci settings. If you start to OC again, you can try to change dividers to keep the pci bus at the normal speed. However, your board just isn't a great overclocker, it might not be worth your while to mess with that.

Hmm thx for the info but what if I got a new sound card then useing the one bult on the motherboard?

can't I do that? Or will it screw up again cuse I realy wana keep it clocked.

If no can you tell me a link I can go to to program the bios\
for it to work?

I'm not sure, but I think you might run into problems with an add on card as well, though it might work better. You'll really just have to experiment with your settings to keep the pci bus running at its normal speed (33/66mhz). If you let it get much over that you'll have problems with pci devices of many kinds.

Ok thx for the help I'll try that and I got the sound to work.
I just went into bios and hit default botten and it work the funny thing is my chip i still overclocked heh.

well i installed win xp pro on my compaq it's about 4 mo old. it came new just to let you know. well i put xp pro on my pc last night and the sound was working great with xp home b.c that what it come with. so after it got done my my audio was gone. i was thinking to myself why is there no sound. and i did all this press start and bahbah and it told me that there was not audio device but i did help and support and i did bios and you think if i did a restore that would bring back my audio device oh i put a cd in and the wmplayer told me that there is no sound device. to help you my model number to my compaq is sr1222nx i did all the updates for my pc on there site but maybe you can fine something that i missed www.hp.com well i hope you fine it

what kind of driver should i download, I can't find the right one