Quick computer question

[25v6turbo]

A few nights ago i was watching an excellent DVD i have on the 1974 launch of the Lotus elite and mid way through Colin chapman chatting away i lost all sound(i was listening with headphones)and since then i can,t get any sound at all..

I took my speakers into work and they work fine,any ideas???

I can,t listen to any of my Safrane youtube moments!!

Someone said about the sound card,but how do i check that?

[ashmicro]

Go to Start>Settings>Control Panel. Go into system, and choose device manager. Look for the category sound, video and game controllers. If you tell me what version of Windows you have I'll do you a screen print.

[tonedepear]

Someone said about the sound card,but how do i check that?

 

1st check it with headphones/different headphones or something, in case it's an intermittent fault with those speakers or something. Then:

 

 

If you take the side cover of your pc (turned off) it'll be the long thin card the speakers plug into the back of. (On this picture, labeled graphics card - there may be a few cards in those slots but it'll be the one the speakers plug in to).

 

I'd take it out (there'll be a screw at the back/side - far left edge of the card as looking at that picture) and put it back in again and see if that works. if not it could be a driver/software issue then - look what card you have as in above post, and google drivers for it and install/update as required.

 

You *should* wear an anti-static wrist band before touching any of this shit, but in reality I find as long as you're not wearing 3 layers of nylon and rubbing balloons on your head while you work, you're more than likely to be ok. I usually touch a radiator first too. (Mostly for luck, but I vaguiely remember someone saying that'll discharge whatever static you have knocking about on you as it's earthed)

 

If there's no card in there, you probly have "on board" sound where the sound card is part of the motherboard. If this is the case then your only course of action is the software route to try, and if that doesn't work you could get a cheap sound card and install it (as per picture above again) and that should then bypass the borked on board sound and make noises happen again.

 

Or buy a new PC like Bill Gates wants you to. But don't buy a mac, ever.

 

hth

[55bloke]

What's the problem with Macs? We love ours!

[ashmicro]

You *should* wear an anti-static wrist band before touching any of this shit, but in reality I find as long as you're not wearing 3 layers of nylon and rubbing balloons on your head while you work, you're more than likely to be ok. I usually touch a radiator first too. (Mostly for luck, but I vaguiely remember someone saying that'll discharge whatever static you have knocking about on you as it's earthed)

 

hth

 

 

+1. In 16 years in the fixing computer shit business, I've only ever killed one card with static, and we believed it to be borked anyhow. Put it this way, I brushed my hair with a Celeron 600 CPU and lobbed it straight into a board. That thing still works after 8 years. TP's advice is sound though. The first thing to try is removing the driver and letting Windows redetect the device. Like I said, tell me what version of windows you have and I'll do a screendump.

[25v6turbo]

heers chaps will let you know when i have the time and stop stripping this 79 Lotus elite i bought for my dad as a spares car,christ the build quality is crap!

[25v6turbo]

All sorted,somehow the Wave setting on the sound affect was set to min,i don,t have a clue how this happened but its all o.k now,still a strange one how it happened in the first place,cheers.