No sound in xp

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I just installed XP, and my soundcard won't work. It has generic XP drivers, but nothing seems to work. The card is a Yamaha OPL Sax. I tried testing it in dxdiag, and no sounds work, Except for the Yamaha FM Synthesizer emulation under music tab. Anyone else with the same problem (preferably solved) please tell me how to make it work properly!!
 
If you go about half-way down this page:

http://www.yamaha.com/lsi/support/downloads.htm

You should see a WDM driver file. It says it's included on the WinXP CD, but it could be a problem with the included drivers.

At any rate, you should also make sure you have the updates for WinXP installed (go to windows update). You might also have some luck swapping the card through a few PCI slots - it could be you have an IRQ problem.
 
Yes, I downloaded those, but they don't do the trick for me. Also, I downloaded all updates for XP, nothing happened. So, it might be the third option, IRQ conflicts.

Now, I've changed back to 98SE. Unfortunately, something weird happened. I had made NTFS partitions with the XP installation program. When I booted the computer with the 98 boot disc, and typed format c: (Yes, I really did, I checked it at least twice) it went on and formatted d:. This was probably because fdisk had some problems with the NTFS partition, which was to be my primary DOS.

Formatting D was not what I wanted at all. I lost all my important documents for work and school, also about 10 gigs of other fun stuff that I'd really love to have back. I tried some lost & found programs, but none of them can restore everything. Well, well. Good thing I have a nice connection so that I can restore most of it.
 
by default, if windows comes across a partition type it doesn't know it doesn't assign a drive letter to it. The Windows 98 bootdisk (and even operating system) does not read NTFS, so that's why that happened. Fdisk'ing may also get complicated as the fdisk program doesn't like anything non-FAT (sometimes you can get away with deleting it as a non-dos partition, but rarely), you might have to use your XP cd to remove the partition. Linux partitions are really hated by fdisk, a lot of times you'll get stuck in an infinite loop "You cannot delete an extended dos partition while logical drives exist" "There are no logical drives" repeat as necessary :)
 
Yea, I noticed that :(

Now, I've revived most of my most important work, but I still miss a lot of it, and some files were damaged, and isn't really intact.

Well, well, you learn a lot from making mistakes. I'll try installing XP again this weekend. Maybe there'll be a followup on this thread then.
 
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