I have an emachine that I purchased used.  It runs good with just a few issues......theres no sound......I went to emachine home page to download drivers (didn't get the op system cds with computer.) I can download them on my hp machine, but they come as a zipped file and when I download them to a cd and PLACE the cd into the emachine, I can view the files but cannot open them.  

Any HELP would be greatly appreciated.Marlene2....Which operatingsystem is on the Emachine ?

Do you have WinRar or WinZip installed ..........you will need an extraction application to unzip the driver .

dl65  ......on  the bottom right there should be  speaker icon......click it....and see if the sound is turned down or muted......what emachince is it.......Theres no sound speaker in the bottom right hand corner.  The machine is a emachine t1100.  I should have mentioned that it originally came with win. xp., but we purchased the machine w/o a hdd.  We installed a 20 gb hdd (western digital) and then installed win 98Se.  I loaded on my internet service thinking I could just download it to that machine, and bypass loading thru cd...BUT it has a standard 56000bps X2 modem that also is not working, therefore, I'm unable to connect to the internet.  It's gotta be drivers.if you remove the modem  from the case and reboot....and shut it down again......now replace the modem and re-boot......window  may find the driver for it...type dxdiag in the RUN box....and test for sound.it will tell you more!.....you may also need a video driver??as you have said...........drivers.Marlene2.... You are correct....... it is probably a driver issue .
Here's some info on your modem .....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824350


let us know how you make out .

dl65  

merlin_2

Thanks for the quick response.....I'll give it a try and post back.Ok guys this is where I'm at now......while investigating this emachine I have noticed that on the back of the pc there are three bays (not sure thats what they're called) Two of them have cards PLUGGED in, one of them is empty.  The one card has a model number of MA560CI which I did a search on and is the modem.  I unplugged it, shut down the pc, restarted and it didn't bring up any new hardware found.  The other card has a model number DL10038D which I found is a network card.  So now I'm thinking the middle one, which is missing is probably the sound card? At any rate the modem still is not working. When I go to Systems, Device Manager, Sound, video and GAME controller, it shows "MPU-401 compatible".  Also in device manager, Theres a yellow ? mark by "other devices" I opened that  and theres

gameport joystick
pci communication device
pci ethernet controller
pci multimedia audio device

they all have yellow ? marks by them

Hope this sheds a lil' light on things.

Thanks again for all your help!try download ing them again>>.http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=desktop&subcat=T-Series&model=T1100

winxp comes with an unzip program.......save them to a folder........then go tbck to the device manager  right modem.update driver.......and do the rest of them the same.....ok, I'm downloading them again...they're downloading as a zipped file....once downloaded if I open them on my hp machine are they going to cause conflicks with my system, or will I be able to transfer them to cd once opened and then delete files off hp machine?transfer them to a cd......now open them up in the emachince......to a folder.....the should really go to  siystems drivers folder.....this does not matter as winxp will ask you to search for them...... Quote

ok, I'm downloading them again...they're downloading as a zipped file....once downloaded if I open them on my hp machine are they going to cause conflicks with my system, or will I be able to transfer them to cd once opened and then delete files off hp machine?