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Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:45 pm
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Forum Trolls
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It's tough to play with no sound.....
I was listening to music earlier and all of a sudden my audio just vanished. I have tried finding out what is wrong, but I have no clue. Is it even possible to fry your sound card while listening to music?
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:07 pm
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If you use headphones or a headset, make sure it's not them before you do anything, and if not make sure every thing's plugged in fully and correctly. Otherwise you might've fried the card, and that won't be fun, but there are cheap sounds cards out there. |
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:10 pm
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Check your sound configuration in windows...make sure it's not muted and that the correct sound device is being used. Look in device manager and see if the device is working properly.
Do you have a stand alone sound card...or onboard sound on the motherboard |
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:11 pm
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Not the headphones, or the speakers, or anything like that, I have plugged both into all the jacks... I guess I'm boned.....
Does anybody know where to find a cheap/decent card?
And to chips, looked through all the settings to make sure everything was off mute, and nothing was...
And I have no clue what kind of sound card it is... I just play games, I don't know crap about anything computer related. |
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:55 pm
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:12 pm
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Look in device manager...sound,video and game controllers. Your sound device will be listed there. IF you have onboard sound (on the motherboard)...there's a slight chance it was disabled. You'd have to enable it by going into the bios.
I have a stand alone soundblaster card and one day, the onboard sound just turned itself on.
Screwed up everything until I figured out what was wrong and turned it off.
Find out what you're dealing with first...and go from there. |
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:10 pm
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Don't cut off the arm before you know what's wrong.
Sometimes my audio drivers cut out whenever I boot up.
I have to re-install every now and then
Ever thought of getting those headphones/headsets that have an integrated Soundcard?
I thought that would be cool. |
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:31 pm
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Where would I find drivers at?
As far as I can tell, the sound card is a "realtek" something or other. And thanks to anybody who is putting up with my inept computer skills. |
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:42 pm
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By that make alone...I'd say you have onboard sound built into your motherboard. I haven't seen you answer whether or not you checked in device manager and noted if the device is working properly.
Again, find out if there are any problems in device manager and ask someone who knows (if you don't) how to boot into your system bios and see if your onboard sound is enabled. |
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:05 am
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I looked earlier and it said it was functioning properly... Another reason this really sucks is because my "band"(if you can even call it that) was going to record some new stuff tomorrow, but now we can't with out being able to play it back.... |
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:37 am
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same thing happened to me a while ago and all i did was reinstall my soundcard and it worked again |
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:17 pm
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Well, here is another really really noobish question... How would I go about reinstalling my sound card (I have xp media center, I have noticed a lot of things with media center that i dont like, i prefer office....) |
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:19 pm
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go to control paniel click on system go to device manager find sound card in list cleck on the pus
by sound rigth click on each one and uninstall
them restart your computer when it starts it will
say found new hardware if it show the name of the sound card write it down and go on line to find update driver this should fix the program |
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:17 pm
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I had a similar problem. Funny enough all I had to do was unplug my headset and plug it back in. |
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:43 pm
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Yea, that didn't work, tried that half a million times.... But I'm about 99 percent sure that the soundcard is f***ed... When I plug my speakers in(I know the speakers work, plugged them into my cd player) to the computer the speakers just start making this sound that sounds kind of like a bass drum with a pillow in it at a really steady pace. I have tried headphones and all that jazz, but when it comes down to it I'm going to have to either try and pull warranty, or get a new soundcard. |
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