All of the sudden no sound???

[Eric]

I was browsing the web(at 4:00am) and came to a site that
played music so I turned off my speakers from my desktop
power spike protector to keep from waking my girl. Well
when I went to listen to some music I couldn't listen to
anything. Nothing works now,no sound schems,CD's nothing.
I uninstalled the dirvers for the SoundBlaster and let
windows find it and put it back.I removed my drivers and
sound card,rebooted, shutdown and replaced the
card..nothing. I put it into another PCI slot and still
nothing. I finally went out and bought another
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 and installed it....nothing.
I tested the speakers on a walkman and they work fine.
The speakers make a power like noise(always have) when I
turn them on even when I plug the speakers into another
port on the sound card. Im lost....i could use some help
please.
Thanks Eric

 

[Lee]

Have you checked your Sounds & Audio Properties?
Start > Control Panel > Sounds, Speech & Audio > Change Speaker Settings >
Speaker Settings Advanced > Speaker Setup

 

[eric]

yes, checked all my settings..nothing, also I forgot to
mention that the default settings on everything was
(SiS7012 wave)with my old card and the New card..at the
moment i changed everything to the SoundBlaster..still
nothing...totally confused!

 

[Lee]

Only thing I can think of at this point is to do a hardware check to see if
Windows can pick up tha fault. Or manually install the drivers? I have come
across a similar problem before (it was a mic) but can't for the life of me
remember what I did to fix it - I think it was something really simple -
like a loose cable. Perhaps someone with more technical expertise can help.
Sorry

 

[eric]

thanks for trying to help....after to talking to a
computer friend of mine and going over everything that I
did, we decided i should buy a new motherboard.right now
$40.00 bucks to try to fix this is worth it.
thanks again

 

[Matthew Shaw]

You are sure it's not muted...

Only thing I can think of at this point is to do a hardware check to see if
Windows can pick up tha fault. Or manually install the drivers? I have come
across a similar problem before (it was a mic) but can't for the life of me
remember what I did to fix it - I think it was something really simple -
like a loose cable. Perhaps someone with more technical expertise can help.
Sorry