I've tried everything

[untechie]

Hi,
Brand new to this stuff. A couple of months ago a friend installed windows 98 upgrade over my Windows 95 and there were no drivers found for my sound card and needless to say, I don't have one.
Everytime my computer boots up I get a message, new hardware found CM18330. I don't need this sound card because I've installed a new one, BUT I would really like to get rid of the message. Any suggestions? I'll be very much relieved.
Best regards,
Untechie

 

[mastertech01]

Windows would not detect it if it isnt there...you must remove it from the system..if it is onboard sound then you must go into bios and disable the onboard sound chip so windows will stop detecting it. Some sound cards are integrated into your modem..in that case you will have to change modems. If nothing else just let it attempt to install a driver..any sound driver..and it will fail the install and just be listed in device manager as a problem device and will not attempt to install again.

 

[untechie]

Hi,
Well, I now have a devise with an exclamation point, BUT I still get the same message.

 

[DAM]

is the device working? if its not, cant you just physically remove it? if not, can you locate the drivers for it? or perhaps just disable it from the hardware profile, dont unistall it, just disable it.





dam()

 

[untechie]

Hi,
Thank you very much. It was an onboard sound something or other and I just disabled it in the setup. I suppose I can now take it off from the motherboard altogether?! By the way, I had done all the things that you had suggested plus more.

 

[evolotion]

If you read the mobo manuel it will prob tell you where a jumper is that you can use to physically disable the card, my mobo has this as well as the bios option...

 

[untechie]

What is a mobo? What is a jumper?

 

[DAM]

mobo = motherboard (techi term)

jumpers, little black thigs that you can change places, think of it as a door with many keyholes, depending what hole you put the key in the door will work in different ways, thats what jumpers do.






dam()

 

[evolotion]

Sorry Untechie, I should have paid attention to your username and the start of your post...
Silly me

P.S. Best of luck and cheers dam!

 

[DragonSlayer81]

maybe a clean install of win98.