ahhhhhhhh still no sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Turtle Shell]

k well my past2 systems have had no sound.The speakers worked i tested them on our dell.Ok well this is what happen i was at circuit city and thought i would buy a cheap o sound card thinking that maybe my onboard is messed up.So i bought a 32 bit sound card 6 channel from some brand i have never heard of seal but it was cheap and i thoght if it worked i can always buy a better one.So i got home installed it with all the drivers and still nothing what is wrong did i do sonthing wrong please help me iam getting sick of no sound :(

[Turtle Shell]

:shrug: anyone :shrug:

[Pinky]

First, disable onboard sound (and make sure it's still disabled).

Make sure the software mute in windows is not on (control panel-->sounds and audio devices). It's silly but you'd be surprised how many times that's all it was.

What type of speakers are you connecting? Have you make certain that the right wires are going into the right slots?

What are you doing to test for sound? If it's a media player sometimes they have their own mute button independent of window's mute.

Next step is purely drivers/other software/directx bug issues. USUALLY if reinstalling the drivers doesn't solve it, the motherboard is funar or the sound card is fubar. Since the only constant in the equation is the motherboard, I would start suspecting that a trace somewhere is broken. But this is the least likely possibility.

I wish I could be of more help, but when it gets deeper than reinstalling drivers it also gets VERY specific and you will only find someone whose experienced that issue with that motherboard with that sound card who will be able to help.

[Turtle Shell]

thanks for the replies i forgot to unistall the old drivers :p hopefully thats it

[Turtle Shell]

First, disable onboard sound (and make sure it's still disabled).

Make sure the software mute in windows is not on (control panel-->sounds and audio devices). It's silly but you'd be surprised how many times that's all it was.

What type of speakers are you connecting? Have you make certain that the right wires are going into the right slots?

What are you doing to test for sound? If it's a media player sometimes they have their own mute button independent of window's mute.

Next step is purely drivers/other software/directx bug issues. USUALLY if reinstalling the drivers doesn't solve it, the motherboard is funar or the sound card is fubar. Since the only constant in the equation is the motherboard, I would start suspecting that a trace somewhere is broken. But this is the least likely possibility.

I wish I could be of more help, but when it gets deeper than reinstalling drivers it also gets VERY specific and you will only find someone whose experienced that issue with that motherboard with that sound card who will be able to help.


HEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHE i unistalled the old drivers and it works :santa: :santa: :santa: thank you you guys have no idea how happy iam going with out sound for like 5 months ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thank you I LOVE THIS FORUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!