help with sound card
 

I am running Windows 2000 SP4 with all updates.

I have just reinstalled an older version of Microstudio after a couple of years (2.315).
While it used to work on my old laptop, now I receive an error that I have no sound card
installed in my computer. This is obviously wrong since the onboard SoundBlaster I have
had since 2002 still works perfectly on my desktop machine.

In spite of how illogical it was, I went out and bought a PCI SoundBlaster 5.1, in hopes of
convincing Microstudio that I did indeed have a sound card.

So, it worked for a few tries, and I was very relieved. Then, I think I had to go to Windows
Update for something. And then an hour ago when I wanted to show a friend of mine how great
Microstudio was, it threw the same error - no sound card.

I am very frustrated with this problem since my computer is correctly set up for everything,
and I even have a brand-new sound card, and still this program will not work. I have wasted
three days on this issue, and now I add insult to injury by buyiong a sound card I didn't need
in the first place.

Any help I can get on this issue is greatly appreciated.

Have you run all of the Windows Updates? Normally this will not occur unless you don't have the Latest version of DirectX installed.

I would go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and get all the Updates under CUSTOM.