ok a while ago my bios decided it didn't like my ati drivers and during the course of fixing all of that the machine was formatted and the bios updated. (the bios turned out to be the problem) Ever since I've been unable to record using the mic (it's setup correctly, set to record, correctly chosen device, not muted, mic works in other machines etc). While trying to figure out why it won't record I came across an unknown device in device manager which device identifier shows as a pci to isa bridge device (with nvidia corp as the chip). I'm on an a8n sli premium and a creative audigy 4. Just a few questions: What on earth is a pci to isa bridge device? Is it, as I'm guessing, something to do with nforce that just isn't included in the driver pack? What's the chances of it being linked to this mic problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm at my wits end with this machine and I'll probably be bald long before my time if this keeps up. Thanks guys
Have you got the latest nForce drivers? Have you tried installing the driver yourself? (Have Disk-> Find nVidia driver folder etc).
ISA is still a bus you will find hiding in modern PCs, a PCI ISA bridge is a device that takes a PCI bus connectio, and has ISA connections behind it. This piece of hardware *should* function fine on its own and not have any problems. Unless your sound card is an ISA device hiding behind the bridge, that shouldn't be a problem. But you mentioned a BIOS problem and the bridge could be a symptom. All the parts of your PC power up in a titally unitalized state, the BIOS sets everything up for the OS. It also provides a way to report system capabilities to Windows via the ACPI tables. It is possible that either the BIOS is not inializing all hardware you have (which could cause a sound problem) or the ACPI tables could be incorrect as well.
