[pepjag]

Yesterday I turn on my comp and no sound was coming from my speakers. My speakers r fine, so it has 2 be the sound card. It is a Realtek AC97 and I dont know what 2 do. My drivers r up 2 date.

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Hi, this one interests me
remember I am working blind so bare with me
also if you haven't mentioned it yet:
- what model of computer
- what os, XPpro or home
- how old is it

Edited by fleamailman, 20 October 2006 - 02:32 PM.

[fleamailman]

Hi, this one interests me
remember I am working blind so bare with me
also if you haven't mentioned it yet:
- what model of computer
- what os, XPpro or home
- how old is it

Edited by fleamailman, 20 October 2006 - 02:32 PM.

[fleamailman]

let's see:

before anything esle
- try headphones to rule out speakers

runbox command
- press buttons on keyboard: winkey + r button
- paste: mmsys.cpl
- press: enter
- click: advanced
- see if your settings are for your configuration.

runbox command
- press buttons on keyboard: winkey + r button
- paste: sndvol32.exe
- press: enter
- check to see if none have turned down or muted

runbox command
- press buttons on keyboard: winkey + r button
- paste: devmgmt.msc
- press: enter
- see if there are yellow blobs on sound devices, means missing drivers.

[pepjag]

My speakers r fine. I tried the first option, it says theres no audio device and everything is grayed out:FAILED. Second option, says theres no active mixer devices availiable:FAILED. Third option, all drivers r fine and up 2 date:FAILED.

[fleamailman]

questions
- tell me more about what exactly is graed out in the mmsys.cpl
- if we uninstall the driver, do you have the driver on an installation cd
- it could be also that card has slipped in the slot
- can you think of any reason why this sound card has stopped working

Edited by fleamailman, 20 October 2006 - 03:07 PM.

[pepjag]

everything is grayed out; no; no idea what youre talking about; and no., it just happened one morning.

[fleamailman]

Ok, I will explain on my side, but your reply of 'everything is grayed out' in the sound control panel is not telling me anything and I will pass if you don't level with me here on whether the whole window or which parts are grayed, there are five tabs in that control panel

I am thinking of uninstalling the driver of your sound card from device manager devmgmt.cpl, and then reinstalling it so therefore I asked you if you have that driver stored somewhere usually on a cd that comes with sound card installed on your computer

I am thinking that the sound card may have slipped or something and therefore may ask you to take it out and put it back once

I asked you if anything had happened, meaning did you download someting, install some new program, etc.,

Another point, please could I know what computer model you have

thanks

[pepjag]

In the sounds menu, everything except the hardware tab is grayed out. I tried uninstalling the driver then I downloaded an even more recent driver so it should have been better, but no. I highly doubt the sound card slipped, I have never moved the hardware. I dont think anything I downloaded couldve done this. All ive downloaded were like 14 updates from microsoft.

And if I didnt give system info, my comp is an HP Pavilion a556x with XP home. Its about 4 years old.


Update: OK this is wierd. When I turn on my comp, my sound works for maybe 5-10 minutes, then it dies for the rest of the period. It is definetely not the speakers

Edited by pepjag, 23 October 2006 - 06:39 PM.

[pepjag]

Ok, ive been busy so I havent had the time to reply. I still have the stupid sound problem. I bought a new sound card like a month ago, it is a Creative X-fi Xtreme Audio. it worked for a week, then the same problem started again. The sound only works for little thing like sound effects on AIM.

Edited by pepjag, 10 December 2006 - 04:12 PM.