Possible clash of resources?

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Hi,
Please excuse me if I have posted on the wrong forum (any forwarding
location would be appreciated) but its the first time that I have used this
site.
I have a slight problem with a Creative sound card that I have just
installed on my computer. Upon connecting up the card and installing the
software everything works a treat (Battlefield2 is just awesome) UNTIL I turn
of my computer and then restart it the next day and find that there is no
sound whatsoever comming from the 4.1 speakers or my headphones.
The computer still shows that the device is correctly installed and working,
the drivers are still there and all the cables are ok etc. A Creative
diagnostic check states that everything is fine but still the sound fails to
'come out'
I have switched the cards' slots, re-installed it sveral times, re-installed
the software, downloaded the latest drivers, made sure that the on-board
audio is disabled but all to no avail.

Is there anybody out there that can help or who has experienced the same
problem as i'm really not sure where to start. I have also posted on the
Creative forums and contacted their help desk, still waiting for a reply!

If and when replying please consider that you probably know a lot more about
computers than I !!

My current setup is;
ASUS A8n-SLI Premium (N-Force)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1gb DDR-SDRAM
Windows XP home

Once again, ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
 
Hi,
Please excuse me if I have posted on the wrong forum (any forwarding
location would be appreciated) but its the first time that I have used this
site.
I have a slight problem with a Creative sound card that I have just
installed on my computer. Upon connecting up the card and installing the
software everything works a treat (Battlefield2 is just awesome) UNTIL I turn
of my computer and then restart it the next day and find that there is no
sound whatsoever comming from the 4.1 speakers or my headphones.
The computer still shows that the device is correctly installed and working,
the drivers are still there and all the cables are ok etc. A Creative
diagnostic check states that everything is fine but still the sound fails to
'come out'
I have switched the cards' slots, re-installed it sveral times, re-installed
the software, downloaded the latest drivers, made sure that the on-board
audio is disabled but all to no avail.

Is there anybody out there that can help or who has experienced the same
problem as i'm really not sure where to start. I have also posted on the
Creative forums and contacted their help desk, still waiting for a reply!
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Go into the Control Panel, then go into the Sound option.
Check the various setup options that your sound is on.

The volume tab is where you want to go. The "Device volume"
slider should be set to "high".

I'd also select the option to have the sound control on
your task bar.

That way, you can regulate the sound without having to go to
the control panel.

Hope that helps.

Good luck!

Tallahassee
 
thanks, but all the volume controls check out ok.

I have done a subsequent check and found that the sound card seems to shavea
the same IRQ setting No16 with my IEEE 1394 host controller.......Is this
correct, should I change it and if so how?????
 
If said:
thanks, but all the volume controls check out ok.
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Not to overlook the obvious, but do your speakers still work? Are they
still plugged in, powered on and all that? You can test them with a
portable CD player, or an iPod, or another computer.
 
If said:
thanks, but all the volume controls check out ok.

I have done a subsequent check and found that the sound card seems to
shavea the same IRQ setting No16 with my IEEE 1394 host
controller.......Is this correct, should I change it and if so
how?????
Click to expand...

Put the sound card in a different PCI slot. Some motherboards are fussy
about where you put the sound card because usually the slot next to the
AGP slot (assuming you have AGP and not PCI-e) shares IRQs. Refer to
the motherboard manual for more details.

Malke
 
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