Lost All Audio

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PROMETEO

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About a week ago after running the disk clean up utility,i lost all audio,since then i have cheched that nothing is muted,unplugged the speakers but still no sound,did a ystem restore and still nothing,iwent to the device manager and updated the drivers still nothing,and when i say no audio i mean no audio at all not even system sounds,i have a realtek ac 97 soundcard,is this a common problem,shuold i upgrade the sound card or is there a solution for it?
 
Since drivers have been ruled out it is either a speaker or sound card problem. Try the speakers on a different device, maybe an MP3 player, and see if you can get another sound card to try out.
 
For correcting drivers on some brand sound cards you first have to totally remove the software and drivers alike with an uninstall utility provided by the card's manufacturer. After this is done allow Windows to perform a fresh detection of hardware to get Windows to install the basics for you. If that still fails to see results the card may have suddenly quit. You may also want to get an air cleaner and try reseating the card after a good blow out of the case to see if a dust and dirt buildup or lift up of the card in the slot occured.
 
Thanks

Thanks for your help,after cleaning the thing and moved it around a bit sound came back,once again many thanks.
 
If you are running XP and have the card in the pci slot try moving it down one or two slots away from the AGP or PCI-Express slots. The one oversight earlier to mention was XP's resource sharing. Glad to see the card does work though.
 
Last time I looked AC97 is onboard audio ie you don't have sound card, it's in the motherboard. All that is in the back of the pc is the connector strip.

The audio can usually be turned off manually in the BIOS (for example when you add a separate sound card). It's hard to imagine it could happen by accident in your circumstance but I would check.

Starman*
 
Starman* said:
Last time I looked AC97 is onboard audio ie you don't have sound card, it's in the motherboard. All that is in the back of the pc is the connector strip.

The audio can usually be turned off manually in the BIOS (for example when you add a separate sound card). It's hard to imagine it could happen by accident in your circumstance but I would check.

Starman*
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Realtek did manufacture sound cards for a short peroid of time until focusing strictly on the onboard chips only. The remaining question here would be what make and model board are you running. You did mention moving it around assuming a pci card was present.
 
PC eye, I'll have to take your word for that. Even after reading your comment, I can only find vague references to model numbers by Googling. There were not very successful with them I guess.

Starman*
 
From what I was able to come across they were mainly used in complete systems some years past. On trying to locate any reference to what one even looked like all sites directed the search to ebay. Two model numbers did surface under the C-Media brand name. http://www.cmedia.com.tw/
 
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