Please Help C-media Ac97 Problem

K7S5A Mother board with C-Media AC97 Audio Device on board windows xp home edition

Hello i recentelly encountered a problem when i re-booted my computer i cant hear any sound there is an audio device in my device manager that has a yellow exclaimation mark next too it " C-media Ac97 Audio device" i tryed 10000000 trouble shooters and none of my friends can figure it out someone please help me

Thanks

-Taylor Bawn

Ac97 is a pretty common audio device, windows shouldnt really have any trouble with it. The board may be damaged or maybe you disabled it in the BIOS by acccident?? or you may have inadvertently disabled it in the device manager.

How do u access the BIOS and im pretty sure its not diabled in device manager i havebeen trying to fix this for weeks and i have been on device mananger alot so yeah... so how do u access the BIOS?

Thanks

-Taylor bawn

Well if you never accessed the bios to begin with , then you didnt accidentally change any settings it so yoir better off leavng it alone. Did you try removing ac97 from the device manager allyogether and letting windows redetect it on the next boot?

you should have a cd that came with your motherboard or a driver cd. all you need to do is reinstall the driver for it and hopefully it should work.

alternatively go to the website, such as www.asrock.com and download the driver from there.

same here exactly cept iv got an E-MU 0404 PCI as well. working one minute. nothing the next.
shut down -> on -> no sound. anywhere not even system noizes. i made a more detailed post. check it out: http://forums.devshed.com/t290314/s.html