Been having this issue w/ no sound after computer crashed. Computer had a soundblaster live card installed. At first inspection of device manager, the card was not detected by windows. I shutdown, physically uninstalled card, rebooted, then shut down again, physically reinstalled card in diff pci slot, rebooted and the new hardware was detected. I reinstalled the drivers from the creative website. To my suprise, still no sound. There were no yellow icons in the device manager, showed soundblaster was working properly. Soundblaster was the default device for all audio in the control panel. I set the bios to disable the on-board audio controller, still no change. I figured the sound card was bad. I uninstalled all drivers and physically removed the card. Enabled the on-board sound, reinstalled the drivers for the motherboard, the on-board device is the default now in control panel,I now have a constant noise coming from the speakers that only goes away when i hit the mute button, but still no actual playback. I have no idea what the problem is, usually updating the drivers has fixed this problem before.
Losing my mind over sound problem
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bomberboysk
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Edit: Didnt read post right first time.
OK, if you have no sound but alot of static, that could be your microphone jack is enabled. Mute the mike and try playing a sound through the speakers with windows media player or whatnot. Make sure that your volume level is set high enough in windows and the player that you can get sound.
OK, if you have no sound but alot of static, that could be your microphone jack is enabled. Mute the mike and try playing a sound through the speakers with windows media player or whatnot. Make sure that your volume level is set high enough in windows and the player that you can get sound.
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after all the frustration, and I just broke down and decided to do a reinstall of XP, after getting windows up and reinstalling the drivers just through the wizard, the sound was working through the sound card. The whole process took me about six hours, good thing I was off today. I finally have sound though, and a big headache. There had to have been an alternative, but if there was, no average comp guru could have solved it.
after all the frustration, and I just broke down and decided to do a reinstall of XP, after getting windows up and reinstalling the drivers just through the wizard, the sound was working through the sound card. The whole process took me about six hours, good thing I was off today. I finally have sound though, and a big headache. There had to have been an alternative, but if there was, no average comp guru could have solved it.
system restore
Hey there...
Not sure if you'll see this, but...
If you have any problems like this in the future, you could try doing a "System Restore". It's a feature of Windows XP that facilitates "rolling back" the system files to a previous time (presumeably before the crash). This is done by XP taking a "snapshot" of your computer's vital files for future use. Most often, your computer takes one of these snapshots each time you do something that alters the state of your Windows registry files, like adding a card, driver, etc..
Here's how you'd do it, if you don't already know:
Start-control panel-performance & maintenance... look in the left column for System Restore. Follow the easy directions, pick a date to roll back to, and often, voila, computer files restored.
Major viruses and crashes can corrupt the files that run System Restore, but I suspect that your sound problem may have easily been fixed.
So, hope this might help for future inevitable crashes!
Best...KJS
Hey there...
Not sure if you'll see this, but...
If you have any problems like this in the future, you could try doing a "System Restore". It's a feature of Windows XP that facilitates "rolling back" the system files to a previous time (presumeably before the crash). This is done by XP taking a "snapshot" of your computer's vital files for future use. Most often, your computer takes one of these snapshots each time you do something that alters the state of your Windows registry files, like adding a card, driver, etc..
Here's how you'd do it, if you don't already know:
Start-control panel-performance & maintenance... look in the left column for System Restore. Follow the easy directions, pick a date to roll back to, and often, voila, computer files restored.
Major viruses and crashes can corrupt the files that run System Restore, but I suspect that your sound problem may have easily been fixed.
So, hope this might help for future inevitable crashes!
Best...KJS