no sound

Elaine R · 02-25-2006, 03:51 AM

Plz bare with me, I'm not very comp. lit but I'm learning. I purchased a desk top from my employer 3 yrs ago. When I brought it home there was no sound. My employer sent me a new sound card instructed me how in install and a cd which states Yamaha sound card driver plus media player 9. Replaced worked great. Last yr my kids where downloading music, one day the sound stopped. The color got distored, I assumed a virus??? I put the computer away. I pulled it out last week, previously it has windows me, I installed window xp, color returned works great only thing we do not have any sound still plz help.

networkspy · 02-25-2006, 05:47 AM

ok take out the sound card 1st in 5 seconds you go back again to plug in the sound card. an on the power so after that install the driver in your sound card an restart.

**Terrister** · 02-25-2006, 08:27 AM

Try going to the system control panel. Hardware tab, device manager. Go down to the sound and multimedia. Is your sound card listed? Does it have a yellow ! next to it?

02-25-2006, 03:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Elaine R Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1 OS: xp	no sound Plz bare with me, I'm not very comp. lit but I'm learning. I purchased a desk top from my employer 3 yrs ago. When I brought it home there was no sound. My employer sent me a new sound card instructed me how in install and a cd which states Yamaha sound card driver plus media player 9. Replaced worked great. Last yr my kids where downloading music, one day the sound stopped. The color got distored, I assumed a virus??? I put the computer away. I pulled it out last week, previously it has windows me, I installed window xp, color returned works great only thing we do not have any sound still plz help.

02-25-2006, 08:27 AM	#3 (permalink)
Terrister Moderator Hardware Forum Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: West Georgia, USA Posts: 7,098 OS: Xp	Try going to the system control panel. Hardware tab, device manager. Go down to the sound and multimedia. Is your sound card listed? Does it have a yellow ! next to it? __________________

02-25-2006, 05:47 AM	#2 (permalink)
networkspy Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 27 OS: Windows 2000 Professional	ok take out the sound card 1st in 5 seconds you go back again to plug in the sound card. an on the power so after that install the driver in your sound card an restart.