First post, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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My mother currently uses the ex-PC of my little brother. It is a 600MHz Duron with 512MB of RAM (no big deal since she's just using it for Office and browsing), and an unknown sound card of cheap & generic type.
Problem is, my little brother is the typical kind of guy who purchased the PC with everything pre-installed and never ask for drivers --let alone the model of the hardware he bought.
When he purchased the PC back in 2001 (or was it 2002?), it was pre-installed with Win98 and everything runs fine, including the shitty, cheap sound card. However, when we added more RAM and replaced the O/S with WinXP, the sound card was not recognized anymore. You know, "drivers not installed" problem.
I have asked my little bro what the sound card model it, but he just gave me a blank stare.
Now I'm visiting my mom's house (in Bandung) and she asked me to "activate" the sound card, which I CAN'T because I don't have the slightest idea which driver I should download. I don't even know what the sound card is; does it use AC97 chipset? Or is it some obscure Creative clone barely known to mankind?
Is there any website that can detect our PC and recognize the sound card on the fly (IIRC there is such website for mobos), and give suggestion what driver to download?
I don't have much time because I'll be returning to Jakarta on Sunday. And if I don't solve the problem before leaving my mom, an idiot who thinks that he knows everything about computer (no, not my little bro) will definitely wreak havoc on my mother's PC and ruin everything, and I'll waste my next weekend cleaning up his shit.
Many thanks for the help.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.