Computer problem...a little help please.

[James 3528]

I reloaded windows yesterday and lost computer sounds. But, I still have sounds associated with movie clips and music in my media player library. Honestly I think I deleted some programs that may have had something to do with losing the sound which is why I reloaded windows. But it still don't work.

Under "Sounds and audio device properties" it says > No audio device.

Again I have sounds associated with movies and windows media. Just no system sounds. I also use the phone though the Internet and that don't work.

[sodadude]

But I hope Georgia will schedule some tougher football opponents this year. Sheeeeeesh!

[royc]

Ok, let me give this a try. Since you didnt tell what your audio device is I can only give you some general advice. By computer sounds I assume your talking about windows start up sounds etc.

Windows claims you have no audio device which makes me believe you need to run some software associated with your computer. Look to see if you have some software related to your particular machine.

Also it would be helpfull if you gave some info on what type of machine you have and which windows your loading. Its kind of unusual for XP not to see the device or at least ask you when loading it, to supply a software disc.


Roy

[Workhorse]

Throw it out the window and go buy yourself a new one.

[James 3528]

It is XP and I was about to run a few dics. My sound device is not a seperate card but on the mother board

[Workhorse]

If you go to your control panel and click on "sound and Audio Devices" then click on "sounds" and choose "windows default" and then check the next three choices to make sure all cards are registering. If not you may be able to manually click on them and see if they are still there and reset them. If not have you tried a System Restore yet?

[cehs]

The mother board should have come with "system resources" CD.
It may be on one of the CD's that came with the computer.
Otherwise you can go to:

http://update.microsoft.com

and they can update most of your hardware.

[Workhorse]

Originally posted by cehs
The mother board should have come with "system resources" CD.
It may be on one of the CD's that came with the computer.
Otherwise you can go to:

http://update.microsoft.com

and they can update most of your hardware.

That's if you got XP the RIGHT way. ;D

[James 3528]

Originally posted by workhorse
If you go to your control panel and click on "sound and Audio Devices"

That is when a widow opens and it says "No audio device."

[James 3528]

I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000

1.68 Ghz

Microsoft XP Version

[aircooled53]

Need to systems restore to 'default' and it should pick the sound card up unless you need some type of driver for your sound card. Then you would need to find out what type sound card and modem you have and http://www.microsoft.com. XP has up-grade drivers , but some software is not compatable with Windows XP . I found that out with my camera and Robio software for IBM camera's won't work without new software.

[wolfdog]

You will probably need to get the drivers for the onbaoard sound card.

The board\computer came with a resource disk

OR

Go to Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager

There you can find the maker of the sound card and go to their web site for a driver package.

[James 3528]

My sound device is on the mother board. My mother board is aGa 7dx

[gruvn]

You need to load the drivers for it, find out exactly what the device is, and go their site and get the driver for it.Does the modem work ? sometimes these things are together.

[rimek]

you should have a drivers/utilities cd for your motherboard ,if not- go to mobo's site and download sound drivers to enable onboard sound. What brand is the computer?

[James 3528]

Yes and I think I found it and loaded it. Nothing positive happened

[James 3528]

I got it back. Don't ask me how. Thanks.

[gruvn]

Don't need to ask , you loaded the driver and resarted it.Either that or you found the mute button and turned the sound back on lol

[Workhorse]

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[James 3528]

Honestly I think it was under the sound tap in device props.

Wrong thing was set under default device.