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Guest Gerald S
Posted

Hello,

 

I have lost all my sounds on my computer, I have not changed anything that I

know of but for some reason all sounds have gone, I have windows xp home

edition, creative audio pci (es1370) sb pci 64/128 wdm. I have been to the

device manager and there are no yellow question marks and I have tried to

update the drivers.

 

Any help I would be very grateful, my music on the pc is my hobby and I feel

so lost without it.

 

Many thanks

 

Gerald

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Guest Alumaline
Posted

RE: No Sounds from pc

 

Hi

 

I just solved this problem on my laptop. I ran Sound Troubleshooter

under Help in Windows XP without success. The problem was not

software but hardware. My laptop has external volume controls

as well as software volume controls. So I pushed the volume

button and the sound appeared. An obvious solution but I just

got this laptop and did not see the small buttons. I hope this helps.

 

Mark S

 

"Gerald S" wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I have lost all my sounds on my computer, I have not changed anything that I

> know of but for some reason all sounds have gone, I have windows xp home

> edition, creative audio pci (es1370) sb pci 64/128 wdm. I have been to the

> device manager and there are no yellow question marks and I have tried to

> update the drivers.

>

> Any help I would be very grateful, my music on the pc is my hobby and I feel

> so lost without it.

>

> Many thanks

>

> Gerald

Guest Gerald S
Posted

RE: No Sounds from pc

 

Hi,

Thank you for trying to help, I am afraid my problem is not that easy, my

speakers are always switched on, everything was ok then nothing, I have even

tried a system restore and that does not sort my problem.

 

many thanks

Gerald

 

"Alumaline" wrote:

> Hi

>

> I just solved this problem on my laptop. I ran Sound Troubleshooter

> under Help in Windows XP without success. The problem was not

> software but hardware. My laptop has external volume controls

> as well as software volume controls. So I pushed the volume

> button and the sound appeared. An obvious solution but I just

> got this laptop and did not see the small buttons. I hope this helps.

>

> Mark S

>

> "Gerald S" wrote:

>

> > Hello,

> >

> > I have lost all my sounds on my computer, I have not changed anything that I

> > know of but for some reason all sounds have gone, I have windows xp home

> > edition, creative audio pci (es1370) sb pci 64/128 wdm. I have been to the

> > device manager and there are no yellow question marks and I have tried to

> > update the drivers.

> >

> > Any help I would be very grateful, my music on the pc is my hobby and I feel

> > so lost without it.

> >

> > Many thanks

> >

> > Gerald

Guest Malke
Posted

Re: No Sounds from pc

 

Gerald S wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I have lost all my sounds on my computer, I have not changed anything that

> I know of but for some reason all sounds have gone, I have windows xp home

> edition, creative audio pci (es1370) sb pci 64/128 wdm. I have been to the

> device manager and there are no yellow question marks and I have tried to

> update the drivers.

 

Reinstall the drivers for your sound card. Get them from Creative or from

the OEM's website for your specific model computer if you have that sort of

machine (Dell, HP, etc.).

 

If reinstalling the drivers doesn't help, the sound card has probably died.

Replace it with a new one. Basic sound cards like yours cost under $25.

Uninstall the old one first.

 

Malke

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Guest King Bruno the Questionable
Posted

Re: No Sounds from pc

 

"Gerald S" <GeraldS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:A9922B86-E99D-4904-AE0C-BD20BE5C9386@microsoft.com...

> Hi,

> Thank you for trying to help, I am afraid my problem is not that easy, my

> speakers are always switched on, everything was ok then nothing, I have

> even

> tried a system restore and that does not sort my problem.

>

> many thanks

> Gerald

>

> "Alumaline" wrote:

>

Try removing from Device Manager & rebooting.

That often solves it.

Failing that, uninstall the drivers via add-remove programs & re-install

from installation disks/files.

Regards Mike.

Guest Gerald S
Posted

Re: No Sounds from pc

 

King Bruno.

 

Many thanks for that information, that did the trick, I am up and running

with sound again, I am so pleased. thank you all so much for the advice it is

really appreciated

 

Regards

 

Gerald

 

"King Bruno the Questionable" wrote:

> "Gerald S" <GeraldS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:A9922B86-E99D-4904-AE0C-BD20BE5C9386@microsoft.com...

> > Hi,

> > Thank you for trying to help, I am afraid my problem is not that easy, my

> > speakers are always switched on, everything was ok then nothing, I have

> > even

> > tried a system restore and that does not sort my problem.

> >

> > many thanks

> > Gerald

> >

> > "Alumaline" wrote:

> >

> Try removing from Device Manager & rebooting.

> That often solves it.

> Failing that, uninstall the drivers via add-remove programs & re-install

> from installation disks/files.

> Regards Mike.

>

>

>


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