I think I am putting this in the right area, but since I am not entirely sure what the PROBLEM is I can only guess, so if this is in the wrong area could a Mod please put in the right one. First off a bit of information; Windows XP, I also have two HARD drives each with Windows XP on them, and my sound card is a Sound Blaster. Let me know if more info is needed.

Now for the problem; for some reason my Windows XP will not play sound. I have had this problem before, whenever I have had to reinstall Windows XP, but I had tech support to help and they eventually were able to fix the problem, but I never knew what it actually was. But I no longer have tech support, and I can’t seem to figure it out myself.

Now let me explain how I got to this point. I was trying to get an older game to work on XP, but I eventually decided to give up on that and instead attempt to wipe. So I was trying to figure out how to wipe one of the hard drives, and could not for the life of me figure it out. At one point while in support, which I go to when the computer first boots up, I found what I thought was what I wanted. I set the computer back to the way it was when it left the factory, which obviously did not do what I wanted and took away my sound once again.

I checked everything I could think off; I made sure my speakers were on, I even had the volume all the way up. I tired uninstalling and reinstalling the driver from the CD, after that did not work I tired to find a driver from online and again that did not work. The computer says the driver is installed and working, and I know the speakers work because they worked just a couple days ago. Also when I try to play a sound in the SOUNDS and audio devices properties it makes like it is working, but still no sound.

One of there thing to note, when the computer first boots up or shuts down, the speakers POP, not sure of any other way to describe it. I hope someone has an idea as to what is wrong and can help me, and if so I can move onto back to my old problem.
Click on Control Panel
- Sounds, speech and audio devices
- sounds and audio devices
- audio
check to make sure the boxes show your audio devices
then also check:
- hardware
and check to see if they are all working properly.
You could also check your windows media player
to make sure mute is'nt turned on.


Also do you have onboard sound(on mainboard)
or do you have a sound card installed?

greg

Well I seem to have fixed that problem, I uninstalled and then reinstalled Sound Blaster as well as the Driver from a Dell CD that came with my computer. When I checked the audio section it now has two options, Sound Blaster and Sigma TEL Audio, I tried the Sigma and it works now. Now I have one other problem to fix, but I think it needs its own topic.