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Very annoying sound issue
I have no sound ! Windows XP. AMD
Compaq Presario SR1950NX
And yes I should have sound now after I have made sure of the following....
Enabled On'Board sound in BIOS
Started windows sound in "Services"
Configured audio device in device manager
Made sure audio was detected in system info
Put volume icon in task bar
Downloaded realtek original device driver from www.realtek.com
Upgraded nvidia drivers for geforce GT 430 graphics card...which also installed Nvidia HD audio drivers (4 of them to be exact)
AND I Still have no sound!
HELP!!!
please? *wimpers**
Can someone help?
thanx.....
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No time for a long answer but look at your Playback Devices.
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+xp+playback+devices&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Yes I can understand how no sound could be quite distressing. A few question if I may to help facilitate an answer for you. Have you had sound on this computer before? If so did anything change on your system prior to losing sound? What kind of speakers do you use, digital or analog? And in device manager are there any unknown devices listed?
Not even Jove can please all, whether he rains or does not rain.
Theognis
what happened when the sound went away?
I"m nearly positive it's some sort of driver issue, however, with Compaq's (and many other prebuilts) they can be pretty hard to narrow down because they tend to use proprietary or one-off components that aren't quite standard.
What I would try first:
Uninstall every single audio driver, and remove the devices from the Windows Device Manager. Make sure all of them are gone.
Reboot, and see what Windows auto-detects for hardware
If that works, great, if not, start installing drivers. Make sure to uninstall a driver if it doesn't work before installing the next.
Alternatively:
You could just get another sound output device. A USB Sound card is cheap, and will give you about the same sound as your built-in sound did before. Something like this is only $9, and may be worth it just to not have to hassle with the drivers.