Re: NO SOUND ON MY COMPUTER

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 09/27/04


Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:25:08 -0500

Ashley4250 wrote:
> Hello , you all probly think this is an incredibly stupid question
> but the other day i went to start, control panel , then add or remove
> to uninstall something and i accidentally uninstalled sound max and i
> dont have any sound now and i cant figure oiut how to fix it. If
> anyone can help me out here it will be much appreciated.

You must know what sound card you have. Look on your receipt/invoice for
the computer - ask the people you bought the system from, open it up and
look, etc.

There are applications out there that can identify what hardware you have,
but I think they all depend on a properly installed system - as I think they
pull the information from the registry. Perhaps they do not - so I will
recommend you try two different ones:

 EVEREST Home Edition
 http://www.lavalys.com/products/download.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=3

 Belarc Advisor
 http://belarc.com/free_download.html

Once you know what you have, what next? Go get the latest driver for your
hardware/OS from the manufacturer's web page. For example, let's say you
have an NVidia chipset video card or ATI video card, perhaps a Creative
Labs sound card or C-Media chipset sound card...

 NVidia Video Card Drivers
 http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

 ATI Video Card Drivers
 http://www.atitech.com/support/driver.html

 Creative Labs Sound Device
 http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

 C-Media Sound Device
 http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_download_01.htm

Good luck!

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<- Shenan ->
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