Re: my sound has stopped working



you could see if there is a startup running that is interferring with
your sound.
Keep in mind that additional startups do take up extra memory,
so this is only one possible cause.
But another could be as a result of a startup as well, possible someother
sound driver or something. Or not having the ac97 sound driver in your
startup.
Just for testing be sure you are not connected to the internet so that
you can temporarily disable all your startups without running the
risk of being vulnerable.
It is assumed that your pc should be
virus free at this time anyways so go to msconfig via run
then disable all your startups in the startup tabs. If you have some
already
disabled, make a quick little listing of them, for later.
After disabling then reboot and check for your sound again.
If you have sound, then you know where the cause is from.
If not, then go to your msconfig again and enable your sound.exe
which is the ac97 sound manager that loads in your startup, then reboot.
Do you have sound now? If not, then go to msconfig and repost something
here
again.....


"I Podius" <meeet.me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:vtydneKN94HreW_ZRVnygw@xxxxxxxxx
I have lost all sound on my XP Home SP2.
I have
made sure all vol controls are at max and not on mute
seen that there is no hardware device conflict
made sure it is on enabled
made sure my realtec ac97 audio has the latest drivers
used headphones instead of my speakers

Can anyone suggest what else I can do?
Thanks.



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