# Sound Help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-help/193171>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 5, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-help/193171 "2003-08-05T19:00:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_terminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@the\_terminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_terminator)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-help/193171/1 "2003-08-05T19:00:30Z")

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I cannot hear sound on my computer, even though i know a sound is playing. According to the Sounds and Audio Devices tab in Control Panel, my sound device is working fine. I have ran the troubleshooter, checked my speakers, eve reinstalled my drivers but nothing works. After i reinstall my driver, when the computer resets i hear the “Shutdown” sound, but when the computer restarts the Startup sound cuts off in the middle and the sound does not work after that. I started experiencing this after i received a “Remote Procedure Call” error(I posted about this earlier [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=202375](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=202375) ). I ran windows update and fixed this problem, but started getting no sound after that. I have Windows XP with a SoundBlaster Augigy sound card.