Computer Sound problems part 2

Factual Questions
1

I’m starting a new thread because I feel that the problem is now a different one.

  1. My computer does not produce sound. More correctly it may play sounds for a few seconds at startup then nothing.
  2. My original belief was that the problem lay with an Audigy 4 soundcard.
  3. I have disabled the soundcard (though not physically removed it) and enabled on board sound through BIOS. Same problem! WFT? How can this be?? :frowning:
2

Did you reinstall or install a MB sound adaptor? If you speakers are still plugged into the sound card jack, you won’t get any sound.

3

There are separate plugs for motherboard sound. I tried headphones in each output. Nothing.

4

If you are getting sound at startup then your drivers, at least in and of themselves, are fine, and it is something else that is interrupting it. If it cuts out shortly after the startup sequence and thereafter does not return, then the problem is likely one of:

  1. Another program is capturing your sound card (i.e., taking exclusive control of the device via the drivers) and not relinquishing control when it is done (assuming it is done doing whatever it is it’s trying and evidently failing to do).

  2. Another program is, for whatever reason, effectively (if not literally) disabling the drivers or otherwise preventing them from passing along instructions to play sound.

  3. The sound is being muted. (Check your sound card’s control panel/mixer settings)

For the first two, my initial suggestion is to check your startup apps (start->run, enter “msconfig” (no quotes) and click the “startup” tab) and uncheck everything and see if sound comes back. If it does, re-enable your staryup apps one by one until sound disappears to find your culprit. This may not solve the problem, and if it doesn’t the problem is deeper – possibly a Windows service or somesuch.