"Problem with my sound device"

manic111 · 18 Nov 2007 at 15:31

I turned my PC on this morning, and couldnt get any sound working-I am using the P35C-DS3R onboard audio. When I try using Windows Media Player I get a message saying that there is a problem with my sound device-it is either in use by another program or it is faulty. It has been fine up until now-any idea what is wrong?

I have checked device manager and everything is fine.

BENdage · 18 Nov 2007 at 15:50

try a driver update, windows update could've broken the one you had

manic111 · 18 Nov 2007 at 15:55

Ive just restarted, and everything is back to normal-I will do the driver update though, as I probably ought to anyway. How do you update mobo drivers? I assume its pretty similar to any other update-Im just worried about doing the mobo as it is fairly important!!! If you could give me a brief walkthrough it would be appreciated.

BENdage · 18 Nov 2007 at 15:59

You'll need to go to the Gigabyte website, go to support at the top, then motherboards, then drivers, enter your mobo in the driver search box, and it should give you a list of drivers for your board, simply download and run the latest driver exe

edit: it looks like there are 2 revisions of your board so if you dont know which you have open up your case and you should be able to read it off the board

manic111 · 18 Nov 2007 at 16:03

Hehe that isnt the bit Im worried about-its all downloading fine. I was more wondering if I need to wipe the old drivers etc, or whether I can just install these over them? Cheers for the help.

BENdage · 18 Nov 2007 at 16:05

I normally just install the new ones over the top. I normally only remove the old ones if I get any problems