The sound card stopped working when I installed SP2 on this machine. I attempted to re-install the drivers from the manufacturer's website to no avail. I'm half-thinking of reinstalling Windows to try to fix this, but I'd rather not given the choice.
It's a laptop with a Realtek AC97 compatible sound card. Drivers were retrieved from both the laptop manufacturer and the sound chip manufacturer. The occasional system beep comes from the speakers, but no audio playback works.
Any thoughts?
2006-07-15 19:40:21 · 4 answers · asked by kx_wx 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
#1: This is a LAPTOP. I can't extract the sound card any more than I could extract your amigdala. (Without killing the system/you.)
#2: The file was an autoinstall which also duped the drivers in a separate folder. There was also also a driver program which continues to start up each reboot, but does nada. Sound manager doesn't do anything, either.
2006-07-15 20:09:04 · update #1
Buy a new card. Realtek is generic crap and will stop working on you. At least buy a cheap creative labs card at newegg.com
2006-07-15 19:44:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you downloaded the drivers what was the file like? was it a auto install? or did you point the "Update driver" to the location where you saved the file? Do you have access to the volume controls? are they muted or turned down?
2006-07-16 02:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by ntlgnce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try getting drivers on driverguide.com
2006-07-16 02:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ajay Godbole 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reformat, then install sp2 then install everything else
2006-07-16 02:55:07 · answer #4 · answered by AnswerGuy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋