Topic: NO sound from computer....

[charles]

As far as the services bit goes, I know nothing about it. Doesn't mean it's not the problem...only that I've never dealt with it before.

[Andi]

I will have to just suffer and hope that it fixes itself.  I shouldn't have been in there messing around with stuff....

[chase]

whatever you do, don't mess with services.  i had a similar service type problem last week.  went in there pokin around after i saw that thread on twaeking XP.  well i must have done something strange because afterwards i was connected to the internet, could release/renew IP address, had correct gateway and DNS servers, but no application could connect to anything.  played around with all the services for a long time trying to figure out which one i had turned off, decided to just format, reinstall since i hadn't done so in some time.

if you goto control panel > system > hardware tab > device manager.

in there you should see your card listed under "sound video and game controllers."

if it is listed with a yellow question mark under "Other devices" then you still have a driver issue.

[creekfreak]

is your soundcard even being picked up in your device manager? even if just as a yellow splat because its an unknown device?

[chase]

most likely, if it is listed as unknown, it will be listed as "unknown audio device"

but regardless if there is anything listed in the unknown device section, you should check it out, especially if it is listed in a PCI location.