no sound

[Guest]

I am just about at the end of my wits with this computer. One thing after another. I recently installled a new hard drive since the old one siezed up, I have had to reload everything. It's almost workinging perfectly, but no sounds at all. I have checked everything suggested in the troubleshooting section - that's why I'm here. Here's a clue, I did have modem noises and machine beeps previous to downloading critical updates and driver updates from microsoft. Now nothing! Any suggestions ???

 

[Redmond]

If you did the step by step for help on sounds in the help/support and all
checked out ok.
I did happen to read this from a past post...worth a try!

(After a week of struggling with this (knowing there was no problem with my
sound card or drivers) I finally figured out with a hint from another user
that it was indeed my Windows Profile was corrupt in some way. I created a
new profile and all of my sounds work fine when I log in with that profile.
So I had to transfer my desktop Icons and favorites over to that new profile
and re-configure most of my microsoft programs and then everything is fine.
Thinking my profile was corrupt was about the last thing that I would have
thought of.)

I am just about at the end of my wits with this computer. One thing after

another. I recently installled a new hard drive since the old one siezed up,
I have had to reload everything. It's almost workinging perfectly, but no
sounds at all. I have checked everything suggested in the troubleshooting
section - that's why I'm here. Here's a clue, I did have modem noises and
machine beeps previous to downloading critical updates and driver updates
from microsoft. Now nothing! Any suggestions ???

 

[Redmond]

One thing about sound problems..it can be cause by almost anything.

Last year I was in same boat..did the step by step (no sound) from
help/support... did it all...
updated new drivers..results no help...So I decided to give it another try
with the step by step help..when it came to insert the CD disk with drivers,
I inserted it again..well it worked..why it did not first time I never know.
That's my problem not sure what is wrong with yours.
Sorry I can't help you better..Good luck you will get it fixed..keep asking
and reading up on it.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried logging on as the "guest user" but it

didn't help. Is this going to have the same effect as creating a new
profile? Is it possible that this is a residual problem or damage caused by
blaster worm? (I did deal with that problem - it caused frequent system
crashes. I am just a low-level user trying to get the product to perform as
advertised. In the course of this last few weeks I am getting more computer
knowledge, but it's still Greek to me.

 

[Guest]

Try removing the sound card, then boot up the computer so that windows recognizes a hardware change. Shutdown your computer, reinstall the sound card, then power on your computer. Windows should recognize the sound card as new hardware. You may also want to try a different PCI slot. I've heard of problems being cleared up just by using a different PCI slot.