ive lost my sound on my puter?

Question

i had to reinstall windows xp

Answer 1

Without being able to see your settings I can't really help.

Contact me and I'll try and help you.

:-)

Answer 2

this was a drastic thing to do,certain programs such as games sometimes change sound configuration,its happened to me and all you have to do is go to control panel and sound and its either been set on mute or the sound source has changed
a system restore would of fixed your problem,or even easier a driver update in device manager
there is a program called "driver magician"which will back up all your essential drivers and put them in a single folder,so if you have a emergency like this,you can call on them instantly to re-install the driver
you can download this from http://www.drivermagician.com/,and use it for a trial period,better still you can back them up to cd and this way you even have a copy after a dreaded hard drive failure
good luck

Answer 3

You should definitely try Driver Magician (get one of the latest versions though). Link http://bit.ly/1k3HQuD
It's the best software of its kind.
Cheers.

Answer 4

You may have set MUTE in your audio settings. Have a look in Control Panel - AUDIO. It often happens when you have to reinstall.

Cheers

Answer 5

make sure your speakers are connected well and the volume set on ur "puter" is not on mute.

Answer 6

Go to control panel, sounds and change it to what you like.

Answer 7

windows xp settings, sound
make sure your speaker conncetion is in the speaker port
on your sound card ..if you have a SPEAKER box with power set it to on or if your spearks have a power & volume on set too on and turn up the volume on them

click on start / control panel
sound speech,and audio devices, icon
click on change the speaker settings,tab
a sound and audio devices properties box will pop up

volume ,tab
device volume bar , set too high
untick, mute

ckick on advanced,tab
a volume control box will pop up
untick any box that has tick in the mute
click on the volume control box red X too close the
volume control box

speaker settings
click on speaker volume ,tab
left, set the volume level too high
right,set the volume level too high
clikc ok

click on advanced, tab

speakers,tab
speaker setup, set the tab,too desktop stereo speakers

click on perfomance tab,
hardware acceleration, bar,set too, full
sample rate conversion quality bar, set too , best
click ok


now on the click on audio tab,

sound playback, default device , set tab for your sound card
sound recording ,default device, set tab for your sound card

now click on voice tab
voice playback,default device,set tab for your sound card
voice,recording,default device,set tab for your sound card
click on apply & ok

now in the control panel click on the sound and audio devices,icon
tick the box , place volume icon in the taskbar
click apply & ok
close off the control panel


now click on the
volume icon in the taskbar
volume control box will pop up
on the top click on options
then on properties

at the top in mixer device box
click on the tab, set the device for your sound card

in show following volume controls box list

1:tick, volume control
2:tick, wave
3:tick, sw synth
4:tick, front
5:tick, subwoofer
6:tick, center
7:tick, rear
8:tick, cd player
9:tick, line in
10:tick, microphone
11:tick, pc speakers
click on ok

now on the vloume control box
make sure no box has a tick in mute box


1:volume, control, move the bar too the top
2:wave, move the bar too the top
3:sw synth, move the bar too the top
4:front, move the bar too the top
5:subwoofer, move the bar too the top
6:center, move the bar too the top
7:rear, move the bar too the top
8:cd player, move the bar too the top
9:line in, move the bar too the top
10:microphone, move the bar 2 steps up
11:pc spearkers, move the bar too the top


if you only have 2 speakers and not a set of 12 speakers
on the volume control box click on options properties

in show the following volume controls box list
you can untick

1:front
2:subwoofwooer
3:center
4:rear
then click on ok



for windows xp settings, microphone settings
click on start /control panel
sound speech,and audio deices, icon
sound effect manager ,icon
click on speaker configuration ,tab
place a dot in
2 channel mode for stereo speaker output
click on ok close off control panel
restart the computer
restart the computer for windows xp too save the settings
then try your sound