sound vista programs

I have an Intel 865 perl motherboard with a built in sound card. Intel uses soundmax for the program to operate this and I updated to the latest software, but not working correctly. The volume control on WMP11 does not control anything, have to use Vista volume control to adjust. Also have to go into config on sound software all the time and change the sound quality just to get it to work for a while. Any Ideas?

"Jeffrey" wrote in message

I have an Intel 865 perl motherboard with a built in sound card. Intel uses soundmax for the program to operate this and I updated to the latest software, but not working correctly. The volume control on WMP11 does not control anything, have to use Vista volume control to adjust. Also have to go into config on sound software all the time and change the sound quality just to get it to work for a while. Any Ideas?

I've got similar issues with the same motherboard. WMP11 will work for a while, then the next time I use it, there is no sound. I have also messed around with Winamp, and sound will stop on it after a while. I get "directsound buffer" errors. Sometimes I can change the "directsound output" from, "01: Primary Sound Driver" to "02: Volume Control (Soundmax Integrated Digital Audio" and the sound will come back. Then it will die again, and only a reboot will fix the problem, and only temporarily.
However, when the sound does work, all the volume controls seem to work.
Jack