I recently had a problem with my computer blowing up (power supply) and had to replace it. I ordered one off of ebay and it came with a 30 gig HD with Windoze 2000 on it. When running windows 2000 my speakers worked fine. I upgraded to XP cause I have the disk and a lot of stuff in 2000 was password protected, and just not my program. I installed an 80 gig HD and made the 30 gig my slave. I cannot now for the life of me figure out why my speakers wont work. I think I am missing a driver or something. In control panel it kept saying that no audio device was available, and I played around with a driver and updated it and what not and now it tells me that I do have an audio device available but no sounds come out of my speakers. I have the volume controls and everything but no sound. This is driving me mad. Any ideas? Thanks in advance and Happy Thanksgiving.
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I am not sure what you mean, as far as the intergrated or seperate. If I knew what I was looking for I could open the cover and look, this computer was built, not bought from a store if that helps. I keep seeing a referral to "Legacy" under divices and I downloaded a couple drivers from that website, but I am not sure what to do with the download, at current they are just hanging out in my "documents" folder, I cant open them or anything.
Look in the Device Manager (right-click on My Computer and go to Properties, and then Hardware, then Device Manager). Look under Sounds, Video and game controllers and look for a yellow question mark or explanation point on your sound card. That will indicate that something is wrong. You can remove the driver and reboot and it will try to re-load the driver. That sometimes fixes the problem. If you find the sound card and there is no error then it could be a plug issue. Also, look in Audio Properties (right-click on sound icon in tray and select Adjust Audio Properties, then Audio Tab. Check your default playback device and make sure it says your installed sound device.
Good luck!
Good luck!
No, no yellow question marks. I deleted them last night, thats how I got it to recognize my audio device. Now it says "VIA Audio {WAVE} in the audio mixer.
Okay, thanks for the suggestions guys. The answer was slapping me in the face, and I even included it in my last post and never saw it. I took the panal off the side and looked at the name on the sound card an lo and behold it reads "VIA". So a quick download and a restart later and voila.
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