purplegoth

Nope. All the volumes are up. The speaker icon doesn't even appear at the bottom of the screen

I have since replaced my card with a new one and it seems to be working fine. However, I am now not getting any sound!! All the drivers are up to date and I even did a clean installation from the Nvidia website. When I go into the device manager, the only audio listed is Nvidia but i'm sure that before I had Realtek installed. I tried installing a Realtek driver from the HP website which apparently was successfully installed but nothing appears in device manager and I still get no sound. Help!

OK - I went in to Device Manager and the graphics driver was out of date (Also the 1394 Net Adapter #3). So I managed to update it using the wizard. The PC worked fine for about 2 hours then suddenly went pixelated again. I checked back in the Device Manager which said that the driver was out of date again. I tired to update it again but I get the following message in the wizard: "Cannot continue the hardware update wizard. The Wizard could not find a better match for your hardware than the software you have installed". I tried uninstall the driver and reinstall from the Nvidia website which didn't fix the problem. If it helps, my graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT.

Hi Nev, I didn't manage to get in to safe mode using the USB keyboard but I have since tracked down an old PS/2 keyboard which works fine. How do I go about fixing the problem with the USB keyboard now that I can get in to the computer? P.S I am having issues with the original problem (pixelated screen) so I am limited in what I can do until that's fixed. I've opened that problem as a new thread.

Hiya, I was having problems with my PC (the screen was multi-coloured and pixelated after closing down games e.g Steam) so I figured it was a problem with the graphics card and decided to clean it out (I thought it might be overheating). So, I hoovered out the inside but when I put back together I got a disk error message. After poking about inside and ensuring everything was plugged in correctly, I turned it back on and the error message was gone. I was able to start the computer with no problems. For a few days, the computer was working fine. Unfortunately, now the problem is occurring 100% of the time. Not only is the screen pixelated but it looks as if its in 'Safe Mode', i.e all the icons are huge! Is this a sign that the graphics card is on its way out? Or is another problem entirely? Note: I am also having a problem with the computer no longer picking up my USB keyboard (only an old PS/2 one) but this is in a separate thread. Any help would be really appreciated :-)

Hi everyone, I am lacking in PC knowledge so please bare with me :-) I was having problems with my PC (the screen was multi-coloured after closing down games e.g Steam) so I figured it was a problem with the graphics card and decided to clean it out (I thought it might be overheating). So, I hoovered out the inside but when I put back together I got a disk error message. After poking about inside and ensuring everything was plugged in correctly, I turned it back on and the error message was gone. I was able to start the computer with no problems. Right - the problem I have now is that the computer won't pick up the keyboard (USB). The lights in the keyboard come on but I can't type anything and therefore cannot log in to my computer as it has a password. I have used a 2nd keyboard which also didn't work. I managed to get hold of a PS/2 to USB converter which also didn't work. The keyboard works fine in BIOS. It only seems to stop working once XP has loaded. What do I do now? My other half has checked in the BIOS and he seems to think that everything is OK.