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No sound, no sound icon
Name: patrick Date: October 16, 2003 at 12:42:27 Pacific OS: ME CPU/Ram: amd 1.1/ 256 ddr
Comment:
I had to reinstall the video card driver (asus ge4 v8170 se) and sound card driver (on board, ecs k7s5a) . I then lost all sound. There is no sound icon in the system tray, there are no exclamation points or questio marks in the device manager. i already went to safe mode, removed sound card driver, had windows reinstall the drivers. when i go to Sounds and Multimedia in the control panel... the option to choose a preferred playback device is not active showing a greyed message of No Playback devices. please help me. I'm desperate
Name: morpheus2480 Date: October 16, 2003 at 12:51:43 Pacific
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i also tried testing the sound thru the directx diagnostic tool.. it said No sound card was found
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Response Number 2
Name: wawadave Date: October 16, 2003 at 13:19:56 Pacific
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hello shut off computer.remove sound card from computer,reboot computer,shut computer back off,reinstall sound card.reboot use wizerd to reinstall sound card.
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Response Number 3
Name: morpheus2480 Date: October 16, 2003 at 13:46:31 Pacific
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wawa... the sound card is onboard my motherboard. so i cant remove it
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Response Number 4
Name: Knudsen Date: October 23, 2003 at 22:44:44 Pacific
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I have same problem on my laptop now! No sound, no icon. Under control panel/systems/devices/sounds games etc. It says all is well. But under control panel/sounds and multimedia/voice . It says I have no preferred device and it's all grey. I will be interested to see if anyone has advice for this matter.
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