PC help! No sound! Why no sound?????? Pleeeeeeease????

[aquart]

It's correctly plugged.

I tried a different set of speakers I know work. Nothing on them either.

System Devices says everything's working fine and enabled with my sound card.

Sound volume is NOT on Mute.

One minute there was sound. Then, nothing. WHY???????

[MidwestTransplant]

1. I am attaching a sound file to this post with instruction on how to fix!

:silly:

[aquart]

8. One of us needs to be fixed.

[demnan]

2. You could try reseating the sound card

and trying a different cord that goes between the pc and the speakers.

[katinmn]

3. did you check all your cords?

maybe one popped out.

[Roland99]

4. Format C: then reinstall

:P


Have you tried uninstalling the hardware from Device Manager and then redetecting it?

[aquart]

10. No.

But why would the evil thing say it was fine and enabled if it's having grief? To drive me insane?

[Roland99]

15. Drivers get corrupted sometimes or service packs break things

System Restore comes in handy sometimes.

[underpants]

5. Do you have RealPlayer turned down?

Even if something on Windows Media the volume on Real Player controls the whole computer , mine anyway.

[indy_azcat]

6. Do you even get a POST beep on reboot? n/t

[aquart]

7. I get a beep when I boot.

[democracyindanger]

9. onboard sound or a sound card?

[aquart]

12. Card.

Soundblaster Audio PCI 128D (WDM)

[democracyindanger]

13. to kinda reiterate what others have said:

1) Check your volume settings in Control Panel, make sure none of the 'mute' boxes are checked;
2) Check all your cords
3) Plug your speakers into your walkman/stereo/whatever to make sure it's not the speakers. Plug headphones into the card's output jack to see if you get sound through those
4) open up your box and re-seat the card
5) re-install drivers. download the latest ones at CreativeLabs' site.

If you still don't get anything, your card might have gone kablooey.

The bootup beep doesn't really tell you anything; the motherboard makes that beep, not your soundcard.

[GirlinContempt]

11. reinstall the drivers

[necso]

14. Did the sound literally cut out

while you were listening? Or what? How many out ports are you using -- and which ones?

Sometimes headphones will let you hear sound when it is too low to drive speakers. Try the headphones on both of the out ports (apparently there are two -- one dual purpose -- maybe it has reverted to "auxiliary in", somehow) on the soundcard.

There are different levels on which sound can be cut off (in various ways), and it can be tricky to find the program that is overriding the system's own sound controls.

manual (I think):

http://files.americas.creative.com/manualdn/Manuals/TSD/2384/AudioPCI128.pdf

[SmileyBoy]

16. From what I'm hearing, your sound card may have bit the dust.

If your speakers are working, then that would be the case.