My Sound is not working...

[katzdvd]

It seems like one thing after another with this dang pc

I am working with a fresh install of xp, although this problem also occurred before the reformat;

I have no sound of any kind - no wave, mp3, even system sounds; it will work sometimes, & sometimes not. I have tried 2 different sets of speakers, they are fine. I have tried switching back & forth between the onboard sound & the pci sound card, makes no difference.

Previously I was thinking that my son's games were "breaking" it, but now after reformat, they are not installed, so that can't be the problem. Everything looks ok in dev. manager, don't know where else to look.

I saw a thread on here awhle ago that addressed a similar problem, but I can't locate the link now.

Help! (again)

[Chewy]

katz,
we touched on address problems before, the placement of cards in particular slots

when a sound card and onboard sound are both installed that's an accident waiting to happen

device manager/view/by connection/irq
paste this screen

[Dan]

This was a similar thread with a good link posted by Soup. I hope it works for you!

Link

[katzdvd]

Chewy - Looks like the sounds are on different irq's:




@ Dan - After posting this thread, I search some more & found that link from soup. I ran that pgm. & it did work, at least for now.

Keeping my fingers crossed...

[Chewy]

where's the controller card?

[katzdvd]

where's the controller card?

I didn't put it back on the board yet. Since I am up in the air as far as what I am going to do about a gaming pc for my son, I didn't go any farther with this one after reformatting than I needed to.

[Chewy]

we it sure isn't causing any conflicts sitting on the table

do you need 2 sound sources, a friend who dj's does and he has always had issues getting both to work right at the same time

[katzdvd]

When I disable the realtek audio in dev. manager, I get an error message on boot up. I don't rem. what the error actually said, but when I re-enable the realtek, the error went away.

I could maybe disable it in the BIOS, that would probably be the way to do it.


Also, I noticed that my video card is listed under PCI 16. Is that right, since this is an AGP card?

[Chewy]

I could maybe disable it in the BIOS

standard procedure

my video card is listed under PCI 16

just it's irq number, not to worry

[katzdvd]

standard procedure

Will do!

just it's irq number, not to worry

Figured that, just wanted to make sure

[katzdvd]

Guess I am a little slow at catching on to things... I finally realized that I am experiencing several problems;

* After the pc is powered on for awhile, maybe 3 hrs. or so, I lose my broadband connection.

* Also after the pc is powered on for awhile, I am losing all sound (still)

I did disable the onboard sound in the BIOS. This is a fresh install of windows, not hardly a week old. Did a thorough scan for viruses, etc., all clean. Did some searching on google & came up with the possibility of a failing CMOS battery.

Do these symptoms sound typical of a failing battery? Since I have a clean install on here, I can't think that it is software related. It seems to me that it is maybe the mobo/hardware related.

[Chewy]

well a failing cmos battery will lose time, to check turn off the windows update function on the clock

another symptom is bios settings will be lost

I suspect it's all related to your clean install and that extra sound(the pci card)

give some details and history on the computer

there's a safe way to reload a computer, it's not that hard but you have to cross every t and dot every i

[katzdvd]

Well,

I thought I was onto something here - but I guess not. I was surfing the net with my son's pc earlier, & now it lost the connection too. The ISP says that it is not on their end, so the only thing left on me is the cable modem -

After I reboot the pc, I get the connection back. Does that sound like a flakey modem?

My PC: It does not lose time.

History on the pc; Now that I think back, I have had this sound issue off & on for a long time. Not since the mobo was new, but maybe a year after installing it. It happened with my old soundblaster, with the onboard sound, & now ith the MAYA card that I have installed.

When I reformatt, I now remove all cards (except video) .
Order of install:
1. Win XP
2. SP2 disc
3. Add 1 card at a time & drivers
4. Security Software (Firewall, Virus scan)
5. Rip/Burn/Audio (etc) programs

That is pretty much it. Win XP installed perfectly this last time, no hitches at all. Since the sound issue has been present off & on for such a long time, that is what is leading me to look at the mobo, as that is really the only original part in the system.

A reboot fixes it. It doesn't seem to matter what sound card I use, they all exhibit the same behaviour.

I know it is not the speakers.

[Chewy]

use everest and post the overclock report and let's look at your drivers

[katzdvd]

Chewy - I think this is what you are looking for. If not, direct me