AtoZ said:
Wow, I will trry to answer to the best of my ability. I'm not computer
stupid, but i do not hae a degree in it.
1. Which speakers? old or new? I really do not know how to find out.
And I dont know what kind of sound card i have.
2. My old ones do work, I just wanted new ones with better sound.
3. my old ones are just ones that came with the comp (they suck) The
new speakers are SBS 330 by creative if that helps. 2.1 model and it
have 2 speakers with bass.
4. if speakers never show up, how come the sound card isnt. And maybe
it is and i just dont know what it is called.
You may be refferring to a speaker-shaped icon. It has nothing to do
with whether the speakers work, it's just for controlling the volume.
It's absense may be a clue that the sound drivers are not installed, or
the sound card has issues, but not really, since it can just be turned
off in the control panel.The sound card can be found by looking under the device manager. The
shortcut is Windows logo key+pause. Then click the Hardware tab, and
then device manager. D o you see anything with a Red X, or Yellow
exclamation mark, or question mark? These are all bad things.
And no thats not it.
When I start up my comp my explorer doesnt show up. Again, I'm not too
computer savy but I'ce done research before and have tried a few
things. I think my best bet is to just reinstall explorer.exe or
windows all together. The only problems I'm running into are one, is
it messed up because of a virus and two, will reinstalling fix my
problem and three, will i lose everything. My computer f****'s up every
six months it seems. It's a piece of S**** emachines. Enough of my
pissed off mood. I'm just pulling my hair out trying to fix it myself.
I have Registry scan or whatever and tried to go back to a saved day
that the computer was working... didnt do anything. I'm most likely out
of luck until my dad cane come up and fix it. I'm a college studnet so
its kind of a big deal, but this happens enough to make it less hard
each time it happens. It's always something different though.
Ah, we have a bigger problem, can we set the speaker thing aside for
the moment?
Reinstalling: unfortunately you have an emachine. They use a hard disk
image to do a restore. It will fix the explorer.exe problem. Doing this
kind of restore destroys everything. But you CAN back up your personal
stuff first. You should back up your stuff anyway. Black and silver
Emachines expire when their warrenties do. It's a failure of the
motherboard and power supply both at the same time. Emachines cheaps
out on everything but warrenty-void stickers.
It is as likely as not that a virus caused this. After you reinstall,
download ALL critical updates, Starting with Service Pack 2. It will
make your computer less vunerable to virii. Also, avoid downloading any
computer fixing program from a popup or banner ad. They are scams.
Back to the speakers.
Cable from pc (the green audio out) to the subwoofer input. Power to
subwoofer. Subwoofer to sattellites. This speaker system is powered,
look for an "on" switch, it may be on the remote. The ones that come
with emachines are almost always unpowered, which is why they suck.
Check to see if the volume isn't turned all the way down in the
software, or on the hardware. If you plug back in your old set, and
they work, then there's nothing wrong with your sound card. or volume
settings.
If you can't get that set working, exchange them for a new set.
Sometimes the hardware is dead out of the box.
