my sound has stopped working

[I Podius]

I have lost all sound on my XP Home SP2.
I have
made sure all vol controls are at max and not on mute
seen that there is no hardware device conflict
made sure it is on enabled
made sure my realtec ac97 audio has the latest drivers
used headphones instead of my speakers

Can anyone suggest what else I can do?
Thanks.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link to Kelly's web site:

"Where did my Sounds go?"
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

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[databaseben]

you could see if there is a startup running that is interferring with
your sound.
Keep in mind that additional startups do take up extra memory,
so this is only one possible cause.
But another could be as a result of a startup as well, possible someother
sound driver or something. Or not having the ac97 sound driver in your
startup.
Just for testing be sure you are not connected to the internet so that
you can temporarily disable all your startups without running the
risk of being vulnerable.
It is assumed that your pc should be
virus free at this time anyways so go to msconfig via run
then disable all your startups in the startup tabs. If you have some
already
disabled, make a quick little listing of them, for later.
After disabling then reboot and check for your sound again.
If you have sound, then you know where the cause is from.
If not, then go to your msconfig again and enable your sound.exe
which is the ac97 sound manager that loads in your startup, then reboot.
Do you have sound now? If not, then go to msconfig and repost something
here
again.....

 

[I Podius]

I have lost all sound on my XP Home SP2.
I have
made sure all vol controls are at max and not on mute
seen that there is no hardware device conflict
made sure it is on enabled
made sure my realtec ac97 audio has the latest drivers
used headphones instead of my speakers

Can anyone suggest what else I can do?
Thanks.

I followed the procedures on kellys web site and my sound is back.
Thanks

 

[Guest]

I have lost all sound on my XP Home SP2.
I have
made sure all vol controls are at max and not on mute
seen that there is no hardware device conflict
made sure it is on enabled
made sure my realtec ac97 audio has the latest drivers
used headphones instead of my speakers

Can anyone suggest what else I can do?
Thanks.

 

[Joe Wright]

Is there a power-on light on the speakers? Is it on? Some sound cards
won't work without powered speakers: not enough power..

Is the speaker plugged into the green socket?

My speaker went out because lightning went in the speaker power pack,
through the speaker, into the onboard sound, destroying that portion of
the mobo. A new sound card solved the problem. (I should have had the
power pack on a surge protector too.)

Try the speakers on another computer as a test.

Joe =o)

 

[bagwash]

I have had a similar problem. My supplier-techie banged his head against the
wall for some weeks, and eventually concluded that they was something awry
within the motherboard, but rather than replace that inserted what he
described as "a sort of external soundcard", which gives me additional
sockets for sound in/out ... and they work. I can doubtless get more
technical details if anyone wants them - email me.