erm no sound

**spirit_of_rob** · August 23, 2007, 11:24 AM

okay im completly cluelss about pcs before i explain this i can make them do things but i dont know how they work lol.

last few days my sound has been appearing and disapering at will when i have no sound it says i have no audio devices present somtiems restarting fixes other times it does not.

any ideas about the course of this?

**Shaun** · August 23, 2007, 11:29 AM

Well, what is your audio device; do you have a sound card, or just use onboard (that of the motherboard) sound?

**Freddie** · August 23, 2007, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by spirit_of_rob

okay im completly cluelss about pcs before i explain this i can make them do things but i dont know how they work lol.

last few days my sound has been appearing and disapering at will when i have no sound it says i have no audio devices present somtiems restarting fixes other times it does not.

any ideas about the course of this?

I had a similar problem to this when I built my computer back in September. It was caused by an IRQ conflict, the two devices that were conflicting were the sound card (Creative X-Fi) and a 4 port USB control card. It was too much hassle to solve the conflict so in the end I ended just removing the USB control card and the sound card now works perfectly.

Have you recently installed any additional PCI devices to your computer?

**spirit_of_rob** · August 24, 2007, 12:50 PM

nope not made any hardware changes for ages erm if memory serves and i had a look aorund inside didnt really know what i was looking for but i think i just used the onboard sound.

I got a seperate grpahics card but i think its just onboard sound

**Freddie** · August 24, 2007, 01:44 PM

Use system restore to set you system back to a point when sound was working fine.

**spirit_of_rob** · August 24, 2007, 02:56 PM

erm and i do that how?

sorry im a complete dunce with the tenchincal side of pc

**Doono** · August 24, 2007, 03:39 PM

Start > Programs > Accessories > System tools > System restore

**~~removeduser_426582376423734~~** · August 24, 2007, 03:47 PM

If I remember correctly, you should not system restore until all other options are exhausted. Wait for those clever peepz to tell you what to do.

**Timmius** · August 24, 2007, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by Shyam Popat

If I remember correctly, you should not system restore until all other options are exhausted. Wait for those clever peepz to tell you what to do.

Agree. Have you tried new drivers for your sound?
If you're not sure what sound device you have, you can find it here:
Start --> control panel --> System --> harware --> device control

That'll give you a list of all your computer hardware. Under sound there's a list of items that looks like this:

Mine's in dutch, just disregard that

. You can see I have a sounblaster live! 24-bit. Yours should be there too.

If there anything wrong with you drivers you'll have an exclamation mark there. Which means trouble.

But just start of by googling the latest drivers of your soud card.