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| imak Adult Film Legend  3345 Posts 2/04 |  Posted - Dec 29 2007 : 7:03PMI am at my friends and his computer has no sound. I did all the basic things of making sure everything is seated properly and plugged in, and I blew on it . :) He used to have sound, his shit crashed, he wiped it and reloaded windows XP (well a dude at work did) I think when he reloaded it he got the wrong driver or chipset for the sound card, but I really am not sure. I tried downloading halfdone to find out what sort of sound card it is and came up with nvidia nforce and all the drivers are up to date for that is a driver the same as a chipset (see how much help I need) anyways he has windows XP, I can tell you anything you ask  [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Dec 29 2007 : 7:50PM Do this, just for the hell of it (it can't hurt anything): All Programs >> Accessories >> Command Prompt type in "chkdsk/f" (without the quotes) when it tells you blah-blah-blah, type in "y" Restart This will fix many problems with windows (if there are any). After it runs, it will re-boot itself again (sometimes more than once if you really have issues). Let us know what happens.  [Link] |
| imak Adult Film Legend 3345 Posts 2/04 | Posted - Dec 29 2007 : 8:08PM I gave up for the night but I'm going to email your suggestion to him bigbob, or take it with me when i feel mentally ready for another crack at it [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Dec 29 2007 : 8:11PM What is listed? Do any of the entries have the exclamation point (I think that's what is) that indicates a problem? If so, you can right-click on it and look at its properties and follow the prompts to try to find and install a driver. [Link] |
| imak Adult Film Legend 3345 Posts 2/04 | Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 7:27AM but thank you, they all claim the drivers are up to date and that they are working properly I now think the problem is that nothing is designated as the default sound device [Link] |
| ShiWarrior Senior Member 1170 Posts 8/01 | Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 12:33PM goto device manager and check the sound one, any yellow exclamation marks? Or red X's? [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 1:01AM [Link] |
Bob  All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 2:27AM Good question, Harri. Because if imak's friend is using on-board audio, there's a chance that it's been (inadvertently) disabled in the BIOS. [Link] |
| imak Adult Film Legend 3345 Posts 2/04 | Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 6:20PM [Link] |
| imak Adult Film Legend 3345 Posts 2/04 | Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 6:22PM [Link] |
| imak Adult Film Legend 3345 Posts 2/04 | Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 6:23PM [Link] |
| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 6:43PM It has tests for how your sound is working. One goofy thing might be that it will work after you fuss with the slider that controls hardware acceleration for sound. [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 8:08PM Just FWI, FWIW: A chipset is the complex of silicon chips on a motherboard or add-on card -- in the case of a sound card, those that process sound. It's hardware. A driver is a mini-program that enables hardware (in this case, the sound card) to work. It's software.  [Link] |
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