No Sound

[Guest]

Hi All - My speakers quit working - I went through all the troubleshooting
sequences - no help - so maybe someone out there can help me.

I am using Windows XP Home Edition - Service Pack 2 has been installed. I
went to devices - C Media AC97 Audio Device "cannot start" (Code 10). I
tried uninstalling and reinstalling , and unplugging and replugging in the
speaker cord- no use - still no speakers. I can unplugg the speakers from
the tower and hear crackling sounds from the speakers when the connector is
just barely touching the tower, but when I connect it securely, no sound.

Can anybody help???? Please? Thanks !!

 

[RonK]

Try a System Restore to a date before your problem started.
Click Start, Help and Support, then under Pick A Task select Undo changes
to your computer with System Restore.

 

[philo]

Hi All - My speakers quit working - I went through all the troubleshooting
sequences - no help - so maybe someone out there can help me.

I am using Windows XP Home Edition - Service Pack 2 has been installed. I
went to devices - C Media AC97 Audio Device "cannot start" (Code 10). I
tried uninstalling and reinstalling , and unplugging and replugging in the
speaker cord- no use - still no speakers. I can unplugg the speakers from
the tower and hear crackling sounds from the speakers when the connector
is
just barely touching the tower, but when I connect it securely, no sound.

Can anybody help???? Please? Thanks !!

probably a hardware conflict

have you added any hardware or made any changes in the bios?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply, Ronk, but I'm kinda afraid to do a system restore. I
had a virus that I couldn't get rid of, but I finally did and I don't want it
back. Will a system restore put the virus back on the machine? Oh, now my
computer is telling me I have no sound device - didn't do anything, how do I
get one? Thanks again.

 

[Guest]

haven't added any hardware - and haven't a clue what a bio change is - kinda
new at this technology stuff - Thanks for your help

 

[jel183\(UK\)]

I have experienced problems by a sound driver offered for download by
Microsoft Update - I rolled back the driver and everything was OK. In view
of that I excluded the driver from any future MS updates.

 

[Guest]

I have had exactly the same happen to me, ever since I had to wipe my hard
drive and reinstall Windows XP after a particularly nasty virus. I am
beginning to think that it is the sound card that is at fault - especially as
we had a violent thunderstorm soon after whilst the PC was on, and there
appeared to be a power surge.
I have tried rolling back, uninstalling and reinstalling the hardware and
checking the drivers with no luck. Still this Code 10 thingy.
I have had the warning 'No device' appear on Device Manager, but I have at
least sorted that. The AC97 device is back but I still have no sound.
I have done the diagnostics on DirectX and under Sound1 and Sound 2 there is
an error message with an error code full of zeros.
I'm stuck now.
Help!!

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same issue with my sound, please if anyone figures this out
let me know something. My windows was hanging and would not go into the
desktop so I took it in for service, the tech ghosted my whole computer and
put on a new hard drive to find that it was still doing the same thing so
decided to reformat and reinstall windows xp, after bringing home and
starting it up I no longer had any sound at all. I have reloaded Sound
Blaster Live so many times updated drivers checked all controls, run
diagnostics, been working on it for a week. After reading many different
forums alot of people are having the same problem afer a reinstall and I have
not found where anybody has been able to correct. PLEASE...if somebody has
found a fix let me know. Thanks so much