Sound faded away...

[Guest]

I was listening to my Sirius radio stream when suddenly the sound faded and
disappeared. I checked all the other sounds on my computer and found them to
be non-existent also. I have checked all the speaker connections and they
are fine. I attempted to update the drivers and found that they are up to
date. Any ideas on what happened and how to repair it?

 

[Menno Hershberger]

I was listening to my Sirius radio stream when suddenly the sound
faded and disappeared. I checked all the other sounds on my computer
and found them to be non-existent also. I have checked all the
speaker connections and they are fine. I attempted to update the
drivers and found that they are up to date. Any ideas on what
happened and how to repair it?

I just had that happen to me on a windows 98 machine. It turns out that
the onboard sound had died. I disabled the onboard sound and put a sound
card in it. In my case though, when I went to device manager there was an
exclamation point by the sound device. Said it either wasn't installed or
the drivers needed to be reinstalled. I tried to update the drivers but got
the same message you did.
Sounds like bad news... :-(

 

[Guest]

I just had that happen to me on a windows 98 machine. It turns out that
the onboard sound had died. I disabled the onboard sound and put a sound
card in it. In my case though, when I went to device manager there was an
exclamation point by the sound device. Said it either wasn't installed or
the drivers needed to be reinstalled. I tried to update the drivers but got
the same message you did.
Sounds like bad news... :-(

I'm running Windows XP Home. I checked my Device Manager and it shows no
problem with the hardware. Maybe I should just pull the card and re-install
it.

 

[Menno Hershberger]

I'm running Windows XP Home. I checked my Device Manager and it shows
no problem with the hardware. Maybe I should just pull the card and
re-install it.

Yes, that'd be an idea. Uninstall all the drivers first, and let it
find them all again. At least you have a card. If it's the card, you can
replace it. On-board sound is kind of hard to replace...