Re: Recurring sound failures

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After re-reading this thread, it keeps nagging at me that in your OP you
said that yours is a "dual use" computer,
....which makes one suspect that you have setup multiple user profiles, which
still leads one to suspect that it's to do with multiple user profiles, even
though you say that you were logged in as admin, when installing sound
driver !

I don't pretend to understand multiple user profiles but, I understand that
one can, with the correct permissions, install different software -
including drivers ? - for different users/profiles.

i.e. despite having fought with IBM PC compatibles for over 25 years, I've
never quite understood the situation where, one installs a stand alone PC
for one user, (therefore never sets up multiple user profiles), one still
seems to end up with them, and then one installs .dotner framworks because
an app. needs it - and then one ends up with yet another one - that can be
deleted !

I digress, ...what to suggest ...some newer boards have jumpers to configure
ATX sound jack sockets,

....anyhooo, "failure of sound" ...does that mean definately that (usually
green) sound out jack definately isn't outputting anything, e.g. you've
swapped out speakers, (speakers powered up?), or tried a pair of headphones
? ...we've all repeatedly missed something simple before now !!

....dunno what else to suggest ?

regards, Richard


"MikeB" <MPBrede@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Aug 27, 6:47 pm, "RJK" <notatos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...umm ...sound drivers installed whilst anti-virus disabled ?

Yes, I did the install before installing A/V

...running the sound card setup.exe rather than "installing" an *.inf
Yes

?
...logged in as/with full adminstrator priveliges ?

Yes.


...mmm

?

regards, Richard

"MikeB" <MPBr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Aug 25, 5:03 pm, "RJK" <notatos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard, no, I *didn't* fit the old sound card.

You didn't fit the "old" sound card from your original Aptiva guts to
your
new motherboard did you ?

If so you MUST switch off the onboard sound chip in BIOS

...or REMOVE the pci soundcard and switch on the onbaord sound chip in
bios
:-)

regards, Richard

"MikeB" <MPBr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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This is driving me up the wall. I have a dual-use computer that my
daughter and I share. Frequently the sound fails and I have to jump
through hoops to get it restored.

Initially, this was an IBM Aptiva with a sound card. I found that if I
deleted the sound card from the hardware configuration and rebooted,
Windows would detect the device and reinstall it and sound would
function again.

Recently I totally revamped the PC, replacing the original motherboard
with an Intel DP35DP (http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DP35DP/
index.htm) motherboard, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, new memory and
a new harddrive.

The new motherboard has integrated sound - Intel® High Definition
Audio subsystem in the following configuration:

8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and one
optical S/PDIF digital audio output using the Sigmatel* STAC9271D
audio codec.

And again the failure of sound occurs! I have messed around, trying to
find the sound device to uninstall as I did previously, but this time
the sound device is not easy to spot from the list in the Device
Manager: (http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/HollowOak/
EmmaPCdevicemanager.jpg)

I have found tht if I reinstall some INF files and the Sigmatel
driver, sound returns to the PC. Unfortunately, it seems that every
time I do this, I get another soun device in the list of sound
devices:http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/HollowOak/Sounddevices.jpg

So now I'm getting a bit desperate. Not only is this problem driving
me up the wall, I'm losing cred with my daughter as the "Dad that can
fix things!"

Any advice on what I can do?



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