audio

[Guest]

I accidently deleted the program that comes pre installed that makes the
speakers work. I am using a Widows XP Professional. I would like to fix this
problem.

 

[Newbie Coder]

Everett Lewis,

Any chance you remember the name of this program?

Do you have a yellow exclamation in Device Manager that says UNKNOWN DEVICE?
Example: unknown multimedia device

What you maybe able to do is go to Windows Update & see if that site
discovers the correct hardware & then will give you a valid driver download
to install, but would have thought that the automatic update would have
pushed it to your machine anyway if its turned on.

Windows Update Site:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Another way you can do it is like this:

If the multimedia is onboard then get the model number of your motherboard
by opening the side of your computer, go to the manfuacturers site &
download the application.

If you have a seperate graphics card you can find out the model of it & then
go to that site to get the drivers, but if you know for example its a Sound
Blaster then you can go to their site & use the auto update tool
(http://www.soundblaster.com/support/) to find your correct chipset...

If you use a Dell machine you can go to their site, type your model number &
it will list all the correct drivers too

I hope this helps,

 

[Malke]

I accidently deleted the program that comes pre installed that makes the
speakers work. I am using a Widows XP Professional. I would like to fix this
problem.

Since your sound came preinstalled, you probably have an OEM machine
like a Dell, HP, Sony, etc. You can reinstall the drivers from either a
CD that came with your computer or by going to the computer mftr.'s
website and downloading/installing the audio drivers.

Do not install drivers from Windows Update.

If you need more help with this, post back with the make and model of
your computer.


Malke

 

[Newbie Coder]

Malke,

What are wrong with Windows Update drivers?

I have used them on 1000's of machines to get me by without problems before
I could get to the manufacturers site to get the latest drivers.

The user said he deleted a program. For all we know it could be a CD player
application, but is more likely drivers I admit.

People complain that I give complicated answers but when I give a easy
alternative people like you don't like that either.

If the user goes through my original instructions then a simple Google
search & he will be in business having the make/model or if onboard the
chipset.