khrobins Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 When my audio began to emit and echo effect, I began playing with the settings and updating the drivers. In the process, I lost all audio from the computer.I have since reloaded windows with SP2, I have purchased a new sound card, and have updated all drivers again. Nothing seems to work.Windows finds the hardware as it should, and it loads the drivers. There appear to be no confilcts, and the hardware manager highlights nothing out of order. However, any application that includes audio, like Windows Media Player, displays an error message that there is no audio device in the computer. Same with Control Panel, Sounds. For all intents and purposes, the computer just does not see the card once it's installed.I've even reinstalled the card into different PCI slots, in an attempt to solve the problem. Can anyone help?The problem began with a Sound Blaster Audigy card, and continued when I installed a cheapo CompUSA card.The computer is an Athlon processor on a Asus motherboard running Windows XP Home Edition.Please email me your response if you can.Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 I'm sorry khrobins but we don't email responses, although you should recieve an email to tell you that someone has replied to this thread.This may be a daft question, but have you tested your speakers and are you sure they are working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 I would certainly suspect the speakers as responsible for this. A clue was with the echo effect you were experiencing which may have been a sign that the speaker amplifiers were beginning to fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khrobins Posted February 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 Yes, I checked the speakers.Since my original post, a friend got the audio working for applications like Media Player, but in Control Panel/Sounds, it still indicates that there is no audio device, and no Windows WAV file plays when starting up or shutting down.Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 You say Windows installed the drivers - was this from the drivers contained in Windows? Was there a driver disc supplied with the soundcard? If you do have a software disc for the soundcard, it may be best to un-install the current setup and install from the disc.Also, you say you had, but have removed, an Audigy card. Did you delete the software for that before installing your new card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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