No Sound (Software Maybe?)

[Fonkeymucker12]

Alright, starting about 12 hours ago I was not receiving any sound into my headphones. I have a SB Audigy 2 card, and windows media player is playing... yet no sound. No sound for any program. I tried switching PCI slots for my sound card, computer recognized the change, so I believe the sound card is working fine. Both my headphones (audio jack) and headset/mic (usb) are not receiving sound. I believe the root of the problem stems from a warning I received from windows yesterday, I was installing something and a warning came up...I know it said MIDI something. I don't remember what it said exactly, but it definitely included a MIDI problem. Please help if you can, this is driving me nuts.


PS - Yes, I have checked the volume in CP.

 

[PC eye]

The Audigy 2 ZS Gamer quit on me one day last year. I swapped that for an Audigy 4 Pro and have had the best results. On the next build I will probably move upto the X Fi model then. I suspect the card there if you game alot. The one thing you can try is removing all Creative items under the sound and game controllers in the device manager after downloading the latest update for that model.

After choosing the uninstall option in the DM have Windows copy and load the new drivers you unpack to a temp folder upon browsing to it when the new hardware detected message pops up after you restart the system. Once you start hearing sound then you finish installing the software for the sound mixer, speaker settings, and EAX console.

 

[diduknowthat]

Take the card out, put it back into a different PCI slot, then reinstall the drivers. My sound card has partially quit on me many times, and that's what i do to get it working again.

 

[PC eye]

No sound for any program. I tried switching PCI slots for my sound card, computer recognized the change, so I believe the sound card is working fine.

Take the card out, put it back into a different PCI slot, then reinstall the drivers. My sound card has partially quit on me many times, and that's what i do to get it working again.

Fonkeymucker12 has apparently already tried to get around XP's resource sharing problem often seen with Creative models. The thing to there is go into the device manager itself and look under the sounds and game controller section to see if the Creative WDM item is listed. If you see a yellow mark on it simply right click on it there and choose the update driver option. Then browse to the driver folder under "audio" on the cd. Often I simply keep a collection of sub directories in a main folder for video, sound, Direct X, mouse, keyboard, system updates. etc. to have onhand. That can save a lot of time sifting through a cd case to replace a driver.

 

[XXmakinoise123]

I have a similar problem; a few hours ago my sound worked fine, and now it stopped working; the same way Fonkeymunker's has. My speakers are plugged in just fine. The problem is, when I click on volume control, I'm told I have no audio device, or "mixer" or something. To top it all off, I tried downloading one and my computer can no longer download either, apparently. Can anyone help me?

 

[PC eye]

I have a similar problem; a few hours ago my sound worked fine, and now it stopped working; the same way Fonkeymunker's has. My speakers are plugged in just fine. The problem is, when I click on volume control, I'm told I have no audio device, or "mixer" or something. To top it all off, I tried downloading one and my computer can no longer download either, apparently. Can anyone help me?

If you downloaded the wrong one or got stuck with a bad download and saw a bad install as a result you should try uninstalling all sound to have Windows redetect everything fresh. Try unloading a few startups in the msconfig utility as well and restart the system right afterwards to see those go into effect. It will probably resolve the conflict with Windows. Once you have Windows back to normal you can reload those off of the board's cd if you are using the onboard.