Everyone knows that there is no way to produce sound without installing the sound card driver. Even if you buy a speaker, it will not produce sound. Users who are using the WinXP system find that their computer has no sound and want to install a sound card driver, but they don’t know where to download and install it? Today, the editor of Huajun brings you a simple and easy-to-understand solution. I hope you will support and share the carefully selected content. If you like it, hurry up and get it!

The steps/methods are as follows:

1. Start the “Control Panel” under “Settings” in the “Start” menu. Then double-click "System". Open Device Manager.

2. You will find that several items are marked with a yellow "?" and a "!" in front of them. What does this mean?

3. It turns out that Windows uses such symbols to mark hardware devices that it does not recognize, so that it is more convenient to install the driver. The prompts in the yellow part are generally different and you don't need to pay attention to them.

You see, this project is called "PCI Multimedia Audio Device". They are the device names of the sound card. Before installing the sound card driver, we first delete this item.

Click the first "PCI Multimedia Audio Device" item, and then click the "Delete" button. When a prompt appears, click "OK".

4. Next we will install the sound card driver. The method is very simple. Click Refresh. Lo and behold, new hardware was immediately found. Click Next.

5. Select the installation method, let’s use the “recommended” method, and click “Next”. We are asked to choose the location of the installation program. We have selected "Specify location", we click "Browse" and find the sound card driver from the CD.

6. Open the SOUND directory. There is a directory for ESS1938 here, so select it. Select "Win200, or WinXP, or Vista" again, and now the "OK" button becomes clickable. Once you have specified the location, you can click Next.

7. You have found the driver for a device, which happens to be the sound card. Click "Next". When copying files starts, click "Finish" again. Other devices were found and the driver installation started automatically. Now you're done.

8. How do we know that the installation has been successful? After installing the driver, there is already an item of "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" in the "Device List", and there is also a small speaker on the right side of the "Taskbar", which means that the sound card driver has been installed. alright.

Regarding how to install the WinXP sound card driver, the installation method is introduced here. If you have encountered this kind of problem, you can solve it according to the above method. Then go and give it a try! I hope I can help those in need here.