[Davec]

Originally Posted by eugene2k

reformat the speakers???

You reformat your speakers by pre heating your oven to 450 degrees then bake them for 15 minutes. At the end of the process they will have a completely different form.

[eugene2k]

Never thought that could actually fix anything, but there you go - science advances fast

[chumpy100]

Originally Posted by Davec

You reformat your speakers by pre heating your oven to 450 degrees then bake them for 15 minutes. At the end of the process they will have a completely different form.

umm i tried that and it didnt work, my speakers got all melty and dont play sound anymore

[drf0819]

Originally Posted by eugene2k

1. To play sound a PC needs a sound card. Just like to show graphics a PC needs a graphics card. This will enlighten you a bit more, if you're interested: http://www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm

2. A driver is a special program that allows the operating system to communicate with the hardware. Thus if the driver is corrupted or missing the operating system (Windows in your case) cannot communicate with the sound card. As for how to install it...

Before you try reinstalling the drivers, do the following: click Start, right click on My Computer, choose Properties, click on the Hardware tab and click on the Device Manager button there. The Device Manager window should open and there probably are some entries in the list which have a question mark as their icon or an exclamation sign as part of their icon. See anything like that?

New member here with my first post.
I did what you suggested and found a question mark on the sound card. Where do I go from there?
My sound card is an old one and the mfgr does not have an update for it listed on the website.
The motherboard also has a sound card but it does not work either. I tried disab it but still no sound.
I also tried enabeling the onboard device and taking the card out. Still no sound.
Can you give me any other ideas? Any help will really be appreciated!

[CuriousHwan]

Originally Posted by Kyta Eternal

Hey, I'm new here, first post and all.

What's happened is my computer won't play any sound; it just suddenly stopped yesterday night, and was working compltely fine before. There's not reason for it to have stopped, and I don't download any dubious stuff and anything I do download gets checked by my MacAfee anti-virus.

It's NOT the sound being muted, and it's not me accidentally turning the sound to zero; I've tried turning it up, watching videos on youtube, no sound, twiddling with the volume a bit, trying again, and alas, no change. i tried Windows Media Player, which plays no sound, and through my headphones for both sound from the internet and sound from WMP; both produced nothing on both the computer's normal speakers and the headphones. (I know the headphones AND the computer's inbuilt speakers both work because I tried the 'StickyKeys' thing where you press shift 5 times and it makes a noise and it made a noise, and my headphones work fine with my iPod so it's something with the computer).

Could anyone give me some advice on how to fix this? My computer is made by Acer, and it's a Windows XP; I'm not a very computer-y person so I don't know any technical stuff so could you explain everything relatively simply? Thanks a lot!

~Kyta

For some reason I am having the same exact problem on a Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The last thing I remember doing was defragmenting my C drive. When I came back there was no audio in videos, music or anything of that sort.

I recently updated the drivers that were out-dated.
I restarted and shut down several times.
I tried following eugene2k's post, last paragraph, http://forums.techguy.org/6187381-post4.html
and there are no entries on the list that contain question marks or exclamation signs as parts of their icons, nor did it change anything as it did in Kyta Eternal's situation.

And I am guessing that my soundcard is a Realtek HD.
Driver date is 3/26/2007.
Driver Version is 6.0.1.5391

[CuriousHwan]

I found out the problem to why there was no sound after updating the driver. I 'rolled' back my updated driver to its previous state and the sound is back and satisfying after a whole afternoon killed. Thank you Google. =]