On-Board Sound Chip Prooblem

I've got EP-8K7A+ mobo with on-board AC97 sound chip, running Windows
98SE. It looks like I might have lost the chip. I see the exclamation
sign in the Device Manager(no sound of course). I tried to uninstall
the drivers, disable the chip, enable the chip and install the drivers
again but it didn't help. Any ideas.
Thank you.

Andrew

 

what would have been the cause of the chip being gone?
Is there any 'other devices' in device manager?
is there a resource conflict shown?

 

As long as there aren't driver conflicts from recently installed devices,
or some sort of short on the speaker-out side, then it looks like you need
a call to customer support for a replacement.

Dave

 

I don't know what happen to the chip. I thought the driver became
corrupted but reinstalling the driver would solve the problem. It
didn't.
All of my other devices work correctly, there's never been a conflict.
I'll send e-mail to Epox.
Thanks for your responses.

Andrew

 

Check in BIOS that someone hasn't been fiddling and disabled the onboard
sound there.

 

Try restarting in Safe-mode and delete everything sound related in device
manager there, and then do a re-install. I was surprised, after scratching
my head over a board a while back, to find that there were 4 instances of
everything AC97 related in 98SE Safe-mode that did not show in regular time.