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- May 3, 2003
- Location
- Cleveland, GA
The wife's rig and server, P4 3.2, Gf6800ultra, Asus P4c800edlx, and sound blaster audigy, suddenly lost sound. The sound blaster was still showing as a device in device manager, but when I tried to use any of Creative's utilities, I got an error saying device not found.
I pulled the audigy, uninstalled all drivers and software, and went in the bios and turned the onboard sound back on. Windows didn't recognize it as new hardware and it doesn't show in device manager. I reinstalled the audigy and windows saw the device, attempted to load drivers, and same result, hardware error. I took the audigy back out, unistalled again. Tried the onboard and no luck.
I question that the audigy is bad as the onboard sound wasn't recognized either, and as for as i recollect, the onboard sound worked fine when I installed the audigy. What could be causing windows to lose all sound? I checked all the normal tabs but cannot find the source of the conflict. I checked hardware conflicts etc. Very strange as it worked fine one day and just stopped.
I did try a system restore to roll back to when it did work and the restore failed. As far as I know, no new drivers software or anything was installed.
Any suggestions on how to get the sound back up?
I pulled the audigy, uninstalled all drivers and software, and went in the bios and turned the onboard sound back on. Windows didn't recognize it as new hardware and it doesn't show in device manager. I reinstalled the audigy and windows saw the device, attempted to load drivers, and same result, hardware error. I took the audigy back out, unistalled again. Tried the onboard and no luck.
I question that the audigy is bad as the onboard sound wasn't recognized either, and as for as i recollect, the onboard sound worked fine when I installed the audigy. What could be causing windows to lose all sound? I checked all the normal tabs but cannot find the source of the conflict. I checked hardware conflicts etc. Very strange as it worked fine one day and just stopped.
I did try a system restore to roll back to when it did work and the restore failed. As far as I know, no new drivers software or anything was installed.
Any suggestions on how to get the sound back up?