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No Sounds After Getting Desktop OEM ?Help?!

Oct 25, 2004 9:47PM PDT

No Sounds After Getting Desktop OEM ?Help?!

Hello, hoping someone could help me on this major sound ssue.

Running Windows XP on an old Compaq Presario 5000a. Using Soundblaster Audigy MP3+ for about a year and recently updated drivers. Sound was working before I called Compaq/HP on a memory issue. They had me run Spybot, Adaware, disk cleanup, and defrag. After working with them I?ve found there are no system sounds at all. No sounds from cds or dvds, although I get video. I have a cd drive (TDK Velocd) and dvd drive (Dynex) that don?t automatically recognize formats anymore. Connections were not changed from before their assistance. Their conclusion after I called back and told them of my new experience: Use Quick Restore cds, (which I am cautious of doing if there are other solutions that I might not have tried yet. Perhaps something with the BIOS settings). Not sure if I might need some Windows XP driver in addition to the updated Soundblaster ones I've installed.

What I did so far:
Checked all volume levels
Checked all connections
Checked for system sounds
Checked correct device selected for audio playback (Audigy)
Checked devices and Sound, Video and Game Controllers in Device Manager (states all is running well)
Uninstalled and restarted reinstalled all drivers
Unplugged interior/ exterior connections with soundcard and cd and dvd drives, reconnected, started up again.
System Restore to point before getting Compaq ?help?

None has worked so far.

Please help if you?ve got any ideas.

Thanks,
jjong

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Re: No Sounds After Getting Desktop OEM ?Help?!
Oct 26, 2004 7:14AM PDT

Spybot, Adaware, disk cleanup and defrag aren't supposed to have these consequences. And if they did, one assumes system restore would have helped.

So consider the possibility of a hardware error? I'm afraid it's difficult to check without replacing the sound card, and it doesn't really explain the other problems with cd and dvd ('not recognizing formats'), but it's a remote possibility.

If you're ready to use System Restore, see if installing XP over itself helps. Usually it doesn't but this might be an exception.

Kees

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Re: No Sounds After Getting Desktop OEM ?Help?!
Nov 12, 2004 6:19PM PST

Hi Kees, my disks to reinstall are not with me! I reinstalled the players and the soundcard/software and got rid of the player errors, but still, no system sound. Question: even if I didn't have any speakers plugged in, shouldn't I at least hear the system startup beep?
Thanks,
Jason

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Sometimes phrases such as "checked all"
Oct 26, 2004 11:52AM PDT

turn out to be flawed, something slipped through the crack. Any possibility that volume is correct but the function is muted??? Happens to a friend of mine frequently during video work, she has no idea why it gets muted.

First suggestion would be to go up in Safe Mode and get into device manager and check all items possibly for multiple entries. For any multiple entries, remove them ALL and reboot and let windows find the "new" hardware and then force it to allow you to install the drivers that you want. May be tough with Audigy. Seems that once the Creative install gets fouled up Windows insists that it knows better and forces its drivers in. This is not a major problem because you still get sound but maybe not all of the features.

As for the basic CD functions that only require the normal drivers that windows intalls, try removing the the drives in Device manager [in safe mode] and then reboot.

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Re: Sometimes phrases such as "checked all"
Nov 12, 2004 6:16PM PST

Ray, thanks, I did that and nothing happened. Any other ideas? Thanks