Stupid Computer

[Goosey]

LOL, you had to talk up the surround sound system.
Well you've done anything I would suggest, except maybe when you removed it from device manager, did you try uninstalling the software completely, then reinstalling the new drivers? removed everything in the sound list in "safe mode" and uninstalling all sound drivers? Then reinstal? Sounds like a conflicting driver thing though.

[90GTVert]

lol That's what I get.

Yeah, I removed it completely when I removed it in device manager. Never tried messing with it in safe mode.

[Goosey]

Can't hurt. Sometimes it will list older versions in safe mode. Not sure if Windows 7 still does, but take a look anyway.

[90GTVert]

I couldn't figure anything out so I reinstalled Windows... again. When it first starts it cannot find an audio device. It installed some updates automatically including a Sound Blaster update. When it restarts it acts like everything is OK but no sound. :bfg:

[Goosey]

Hmm, did you change anything in the BIOS? Like, if you reset it, and the motherboard has a sound card, you would have to change a setting to use a different sound card?

[Reign]

Jul 12, 2010 20:22:46 GMT -5 Goosey said:

Hmm, did you change anything in the BIOS? Like, if you reset it, and the motherboard has a sound card, you would have to change a setting to use a different sound card?

She's right. If your motherboard has onboard sound, and you're trying to run a secondary add-on sound card, you have to go into the bios and disable the onboard sound card.

[90GTVert]

I haven't changed any settings there, but I'll check it out.

EDIT : Onboard Audio was set to Auto and I changed it to Disabled. Made no difference. I tried switching PCI slots earlier to no avail as well.

[redorchestra]

I'll give Ubuntu one more plug. When I installed a new clean windows I couldn't access the internet because I didn't have drivers for my wireless USB receiver. I made my computer a dual boot and used Ubuntu to find the drivers and download them.
Then I went back to Windows and loaded them on. Without Ubuntu I would have been stuck with a big typewriter or had to transfere everything by a USB memory stick.
I had one more problem with Windows a bit later, and changed to a full on Ubuntu only home computer.
It works for me, right now anyway!
Never had a problem with sound or video.
It is different. Takes a little getting used to.

[Goosey]

Put it back to auto, there may also be a second setting, look in advanced chipset? That has to be enabled, not always but I've run accross that. So hard to do BIOS with out seeing it myself.

The card is found by Windows and instals the drivers you just get no sound? You can get sound with the soundblaster card taken out with the onboard sound?

[90GTVert]

Yeah, to look at everything I should be hearing sound. The VU meter bars are moving when I try to play music and all that stuff. Because of the way it appears, the first things I checked were the cables and the stereo system. If it had never worked I would think it was the card, but it worked one time. Why would it stop working when I made no changes? I mean it sat overnight and stopped working.

[Goosey]

Check in your sound settings and make sure nothing is muted, in the speaker icon stuff? Speaker system listed and checked in playback devices? If so look in it's properties for anything funky.

[90GTVert]

I've been all through that stuff and nothing looks out of place. It's weird. I did a system health report and this is all that comes up...

[Goosey]

So in device manager does anything in the list start with an !

[Goosey]

Since it worked once when you took it out and put it in again, take out the sound card, and try cleaning the connectors, very carefully with a pencil erasor. Blow off any erasor debree and try it again.

[90GTVert]

No !s. Tried the eraser. No change.