Windows 2000 No Sound

I have a huge problem here. About 3 weeks ago I updated to Windows 2000. Ever since then I have had absolutely no sound. I have checked all wires and everything is connected properly. We recently bought a new sound card called "Sound Blaster 16 PCI". We installed that and still no sound. We repeated the process several times and still nothing. I have checked the file "system" in the control panel and it says that all sound systems are "working properly." I am at my wits end with this. I can't hear any sound from Windows Media Player with movies or music. Please help me. Any of your expertise is much appreciated. Thank you.

if all the drivers are installed, you must have something muted, or need to go to control panel and to sounds and audio, make sure your soundblaster pci, is the preferred device for sound playback, sound recording and the midi music device. was your other sound on-board and if it was did you disable it in bios when you installed the new sound card. dont know your hardware, but if the on-board is faulty could be causing the new card to not work. could be on the same irq as the old device.

ok, I have checked for muting and nothing is muted. I have the voulme all the way up for everything. Please tell me what I need to put as my preferred device for all 3 of these: For Sound Playback my choices are Creative Sound Blaster Audio PCI, or SB PCI. For Sound Recording my choices are Creative Sound Blaster Audio PCI, or SB PCI. As for Midi Music Playback my choices are Creative SBPCI Synthesizer, Creative SBPCI External Midi, Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth, SB PCI Synthesizer, or SB PCI External MIDI. I have no idea what ones to choose. Please help me out there. If this doesn't work, is there some patch I need to download to make it work? My friend said something about DirectX. I'm just so confused.

I would get SP4 and DirectX 9 from the Windows Update site and any drivers they may have. And check the sound card manufacter's site to see if there are newer ones available.

I fixed my sound in Windows 2000 by disabling ACPI!

I followed the advice Listed Here

My soundcard (Creative SoundBlaster Live! OEM) would not play any sound, even though the drivers were installed (WDM or non WDM drivers alike) and all my sound levels were turned up and not muted in the volume control panel, and in Creative's mixer software. Also, all updates were installed (SP4) with DirectX 9.

However, in System Information Properties (msinfo32.exe) under Hardware Resources > IRQs, all my peripherals were IRQ 9. I disabled ACPI and let PCI IRQ Steering do the work instead!

Note to whoever invented ACPI: DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

just kidding,

Good info. I especially liked the warning about the technique possibly leading to an unrecoverable state. Does Creative provide any disclaimer about their products not sharing an IRQ like everyone else?