Sound card damage?

clashradio · 04-06-2009, 01:52 PM

Starting a few days ago, if I plug headphones into my desktop, the computer suddenly decides it can't detect the soundcard driver. Similarly, if I unplug them, same thing happens. I have to reboot and then it works fine.

Does this sound like a short or something? I've never had issues with the soundcard, and I updated the driver to no avail. The card is a Soundblaster Audigy 4, and I'm running xp.

The only other thing I can think of is that I installed a new anti-virus program right around the time this started happening. I think I can work around this by just plugging the headphones into the speakers, not the cpu, but it's got my wondering. Given that there's a mechanical pre-requisite to the error (either plugging or unplugging the headphones from the CPU jack), I can't see how this would be software related.

Thanks in advance!

clashradio · 04-13-2009, 11:46 AM

I still have been unable to resolve this, and I notice that it happens if the speakers are off when I boot up, and subsequently turn them on. I tried to upgrade the driver and got a blue-screen on boot up after doing so, so I had to roll them back to an older version.

Anyone have any thoughts?

04-06-2009, 01:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
clashradio Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 32 OS: XP	Sound card damage? Starting a few days ago, if I plug headphones into my desktop, the computer suddenly decides it can't detect the soundcard driver. Similarly, if I unplug them, same thing happens. I have to reboot and then it works fine. Does this sound like a short or something? I've never had issues with the soundcard, and I updated the driver to no avail. The card is a Soundblaster Audigy 4, and I'm running xp. The only other thing I can think of is that I installed a new anti-virus program right around the time this started happening. I think I can work around this by just plugging the headphones into the speakers, not the cpu, but it's got my wondering. Given that there's a mechanical pre-requisite to the error (either plugging or unplugging the headphones from the CPU jack), I can't see how this would be software related. Thanks in advance!

04-13-2009, 11:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
clashradio Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 32 OS: XP	Re: Sound card damage? I still have been unable to resolve this, and I notice that it happens if the speakers are off when I boot up, and subsequently turn them on. I tried to upgrade the driver and got a blue-screen on boot up after doing so, so I had to roll them back to an older version. Anyone have any thoughts?