Audiophile 2496 installation drivers...

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Hey all. Well, I want sound. Some may no I recieved the wrong studio monitors, so i'v had no sound for a while. but then i had the genious idea of hooking up my Audiophile 2496 to my stereo's AUX function. The inputs are RCA so it works. But it won't make any sound. So i'm thinkin I need to install the drivers. So i pop in the disk and nothing happens. No autorun or anything. I browse around the disc and can't find anything that would be related to installing my sound card, so i'm confused. Does anyone know what to do? I really want sound tonight, but it can wait for tomorrow.
 
wait...

...when i was building my comp, i put it in. then i installed windows. should i take it out and put it back in so that windows can find it?
 
No need to uninstall it. Just download the driver, click on it and follow the instructions.
 
Are you sure you've got the correct pair of RCA jacks?

Have you made the 24/96 your default sound card?

Ummm, what else?

Did you ever have it working in the first place?
 
see i dont know. when i was building my computer, i put it in. windows never recognized it, and in the manual it talks about putting it in and having windows automatic device finder find it...so that's why i think i need to take it out and back in again.
 
M-audios current advice is indeed to run their driver installer BEFORE fitting the card and then let Windows hardware wizard install it for you after fitting the card. But I've found it does work if you do it with the card already in.

Windows doesn't come with the driver, you have to run the M-audio installer .exe first. This puts the driver files into Windows where it can find them.

If you run the installer again, it uninstalls the files and nothing more, so you have to run it twice to re-install or update the driver.
 
I keep the sides off my machine to keep it cooler so taking the card out and putting it back is quick, and i did a ground up fresh installation last week. You don`t have to unplug the cables, just slip it out or the PCI slot, but make sure it`s not touching the motherboard of chassis, and reboot the machine fully, shut it down, and slip the card back in the slot and boot it back up. Xp will install it if the drivers are on there correctly.
 
Check your device manager, Sound devices & see if it refers to the M-Audio drivers.

Also if the drivers installed correctly you should see the M-Audio icon in the task bar and/or in the Control Panel folder. If you don't see that, nothing much will happen
 
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