sound on my computer

[gb junior]

hello, slight irritating problem       when i brought my computer there was sound on it working fine and everything, then one day it decided to die on me and now says there is no soundcard installed onto the computer , does anyone know how to re-install the soundcard or even fix this problem 

 

help would be great

dom356

 

P.S - im not stupid enough to have it on mute accidently   

Edited December 4, 2005 by gb junior

[F2-Fan]

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers for your sound card.

[Dazza290]

Not being an expert, but take your soundcard out, and put it back in, then turn your computer back on and Windows should find and reinstall your card for you.

 

Alternatively, try going to Control Panel, then Add Hardware and see if you can pick out your souncard to install it.

 

Hope i have got that right

[gb junior]

f2-fan = Dont know how to mate thats wot im asking about   

 

Dazza = i dont know wot it looks like   and wouldnt trust myself to do tht but might have to try, i have tried the add hardware didnt work though 

 

cheerz. ANYMORE HELP

[F2-Fan]

It maybe a silly question but your speakers are still plugged in and switched on aren't they.

[gb junior]

yep mate im really not that stupid haha

 

says my comp doesnt have a soundcard    but used to play sound untill it fell asleep since

[F2-Fan]

You really need to take the sound card out and resit it back in the slot, and let it redetect it.

[gb junior]

right some instructions on how to do this please, does it just clip in or something is the sound card something on its own or attached to the motherboard or something       never done this before 

 

thanks for the replys so far mate 

Edited December 4, 2005 by gb junior

[F2-Fan]

The sound card will be in a slot attached to the motherboard and it should be screwed into the back of your case.  If you leave the speakers plugged in and remove the side you will see which card it is.  Unscrew it from the back of the case and it should just pull out, then just resit it screw it back in and reboot, it should detect the card again then.

[gb junior]

ok will give that a shot 2moz 

[gb junior]

i had a look and it is attached to the motehr board and no screw or n e thing near it 

 

n e more suggestions could i donwload software or sumink

[F2-Fan]

If you can't remove it from the motherboard then it sounds like you have a built in sound card, you will need to download the drivers for it and try reinstalling them.  www.driverguide.com has all kind of drivers for all kind of pc bits or you will need to go to the web site of the motherboard manufacturer.

[JohnMid]

gb junion- try the "add hardware" option in control panel, and see if it picks up the soundchip.

 

Otherwise, right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop, chooe "Properties" from the menu that appears, click in the Hardware tab at the top of the window that comes up, then click on "Device Manager"

 

Look for anything on there with a question mark against it, or click on the little + sign next to Sound, video and game controllers, and tell us what's there.

 

[gb junior]

thanks very much for the replys!

 

f2-fan i will try your idea soon thanks mate! 

 

johnmid - this is what i see mate

Edited December 6, 2005 by gb junior

[F2-Fan]

Well after looking at that your PCI controller is the thing that isn't working that is probably why the sound card isn't working that is if your sound card is a pci card.  And you have a com port not working too but the com port shouldn't be a problem.

 

You need to click on the PCI controller and get that to try and reinstall the drivers.

[gb junior]

this is what i done...................

 

 

 

 

[F2-Fan]

I think you need to find the make of the controller to reinstall the drivers, sorry I can't be of any more help.  Unless of course you know what make it is then I might be able to point you in the right direction.

[gb junior]

well i have a packard beel comp ?

i think its a pci?

 

this help 

[JohnMid]

Did your PC come with a built in v90/56k modem?

Did you stop using this to use broadband instead at some point?

 

[gb junior]

yes i think so 

[JohnMid]

OK. Because that's one of the few things I can think of that would be a PCI device with a COMM port. IT *might* be interfering with the onboard sound, but it might be a total red herring. You can right click on it in the list there, and somewhere on the window that pops up is an option to disable that hardware. I would do that, as it doesn't work as it is, and finding drivers for rockwell/connexant PCI modems is a trial in itself, unless you have the original discs.

 

You might want to check in the BIOS (Usually press DEL on startup, or F8 or whatever it says to do) and check that the onboard sound has not been disabled- there should be a section called PCI devices or similar which will have that option in it.

 

[gb junior]

i re started my comp, pressed f8 then went onto the windows menu, went onto something like ........./PCI configuration, one of the options in there woz DISABLED so i changed it to enables saved then booted, still no sound 

went back and changed it back just incase i bugger something up 

 

i really need sound lol please dont give up   

 

wot is this www.driversguide.com, would that help if u pointed me in the right derection

[gb junior]

if you want to you can add me then we can get this sorted ina short time

 

MINIGB359@HOTMAIL.COM

[gb junior]

i hope you havnt given up 

[gb junior]

NO1 GOT ANYMORE IDEAS???   

[F2-Fan]

I have run out of ideas the only thing I can suggest is get the two things that are not working on your system either disabled or sort them out see if that brings the sound back.

[gb junior]

ok thankyou for all the help!

 

i will tryy

 

btw if anyone got anymore ideas feel free to say please

 

many thanks dom