Re: No Sound

Hello again,

....having reviewed this thread, and noticing that you indeed have checked
your bios in which your onboard sound chip is "disabled" ! ...and that your
sound was working before reinstalling XP ...I NEVER seem to read an OP
carefully enough !

....barring something simple, like a faulty soundcard, (which happens now and
again), and things such as speakers audio signal lead plugged into wrong
jack at back of pci card, ( I've even SEEN speakers audio signal lead
plugged
into the ATX 3.5mm sound jack - the socket you DO use if onboard audio chip
is switched on, and do NOT use whilst SB pci soundcard is installed - audio
jack plug of course goes into jack socket on rear of pci soundcard ! ),
....speakers not switched/or no power to speakers,
....we'll have to move on !
....earlier you mentioned "lots of other items" in Device Manager under the
"Sound, Video & game controllers," well there should be.

One thing to try of course is to see if you can get any sound out of the
onboard audio chip,
uninstall SB drivers, and maybe apps. and unplug/remove pci SB card from
motherboard, and reboot, go into bios and switch on onboard sound, and
install the driver for it, if necessary. If you end up with a yellow
question mark in device manager|hardware XP obviously couldn't find a driver
for it, so you can "update" that entry while you're in there and point XP at
the driver e.g. on the motherboard cd, or let XP find it on the web if
connected at this time, ...motherboard often supports several different
brands/models of soundchip, you of course need to know what's on your board,
so that you can point XP at the correct driver.

....can't think of much else to suggest !
....but, don't forget to get the speakers audio signal lead plugged into the
correct socket, I bet that's what you're doing wrong :-)

regards, Richard

"dmoritz" <dmoritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks again for you help, Richard. I took your advice and checked my
bios
to see if my onboard audio was enabled...and as far as I can tell it's
been
disabled. Here is a list of what is showing in device mgr. for Sound,
Video
and game controllers:

*Audio Codecs
*Creative Game Port
*Creative SBLive! Series
*Legacy Audio Drivers
*Legacy Video Capture Devices
*Media Control Devices
*Standard Game Port
*Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
*Video codecs

Does any of the above look like a possible conflict? Thanks again for the
help.

Best Regards,

"RJK" wrote:

....after rereading this thread, I should add, XP is VERY good at
stuffing in
quite reliable drivers for the humungus range of hardware found on
motherboards :-) ...so you're probably right, XP could see your onboard
sound chip and installed drivers for it.

regards, Richard


"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My answer, "Windows really gets it's knickers in a twist if it can see
two
sound chips !" really covered it !
You must switch off an on-motherboard sound chip in bios, BEFORE
fitting a
PCI soundcard as previously explained, it's as simple as that.

It sounds as though there are various entries under "Sound, Video and
Game
Contollers" in Device Manager, for the onboard sound chip, ...as you
say.
...and there could be applications installed e.g. a "hi-fi rack" that
would make use of the onboard sound chip, this could be uninstalled, or
ignored.

You could tidy up "Sound, Video and Game Contollers" in Device Manager,
and uninstall those entries that belong to the onboard sound chip, if
they're still there after switching it off in bios and rebooting,
...take
care to not, for example remove a "Unimodem half-duplex Audio device"
that
would belong to a pci-data/fax/voice modem, if you use or have one
installed.

Switch off the onboard sound chip in bios, save changes in bios and
boot
up, and run your SB drivers & apps. cd. and all should be hunky dory
:-)

regards, Richard


"dmoritz" <dmoritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:717D0BB1-A958-482F-93A0-9F17CFA37115@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for your reply, Richard. I haven't changed any bios
settings...all I
did was reinstall XP, so I'm wondering if it could be something else.
My
sound worked fine until I reinstalled my operating system. There are
many
things listed in device mgr. under sound, video. Could windows have
inadvertently setup the onboard sound and this is conflicting with my
SB
Live! card? I'm just confused as to what to do next to resolve the
problem.
Thank you again for your response.

Best Regards,

"RJK" wrote:

Switched off the motherboard sound chip in bios, if there's one on
your
board ?, ...Windows really gets it's knickers in a twist if it can
see
two
sound chips !

regards, Richard


"dmoritz" <dmoritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C37DA45D-E0A2-4621-8FAA-853A3C572D0B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently reinstalled Win Xp and for some reason I have no sound.
I
have
a
SB Live! sound card installed. When I look in control panel under
Sounds
and
Audio Devices it doesn't show no devices in the volume tab, but
lists
several
under the hardware tab. In Device Mgr. it lists my SB Live! under
the
Sound,
video, and game controllers section, but it lists many other things
as
well.
Could I have some kind of device driver conflict? If so, how would
I
know?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your
time
and
attention to my question.












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