[needhelp12345]

OK...not sure what the deal is with this one and whether its a software or Hardware issue. No sound coming from computer. I open up sound devices in control panel it says "No Audio Device". I go to advdanced and my the Card is on the list, and furthermore says its installed, working fine, and the driver is ok. Tried to dload a driver from Creative, but the installl wizard claims "No products Installed?" So basically, Whats the deal?

Its PCI Express so i can't imagine it became disconnected, or could that be the case, and if it is, why does windows claim to detect it, and not detect it at the same time?

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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.

[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.

[needhelp12345]

Its not a problem with the speakers because i have it going into a receiver and can use the radio on the receiver just fine. I uninstalled the driver becausei had dloaded a new version of the driver(originally i dloaded the driver for the audigy, than realized i have the audigy se, so dloaded that in stead, still the driver application from creative is saying that no hardware is installed, but before, windows didn't seem to have a problem with the driver, just said there was no hardware there, so i'm thinking now its a bad card/bad slot.)

[fleamailman]

Ok make it clear to me, first I don't feel that a soundcard which was good before uninstalling the driver is somehow now bad, what I feel it is is that the device manager is probably not seeing that it has not got the right driver so I simply suggest to uninstall then reinstall from device manager. I am also wondering if no one else has a better idea if system restore would take you back to a point prior to the problem here.

Edited by fleamailman, 06 February 2007 - 01:14 PM.