Problem with VIA AC'97 Audio Controller in Novatech PC

[JC]

I recently lost all audio on my PC, built up from a Novatech barebones system.

The motherboard is a Foxconn 661 MO4 and the built in audio device presents itself in the hardware list as a VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM).

I've tried re-installing it and updating the driver but no joy. The device status is:

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

Any hints or tips would be much appreciated. Could it be a BIOS setting, I did recently change the BIOS to the 'Failsafe Defaults' to solve another problem.

Cheers

[JC]

Sorted.

I've been struggling with this for weeks but having posted I decided to go and have another poke around in the BIOS and sure enough there is a setting to disable audio and it was disabled as was USB2.0.

Sounds is working fine now, thanks.