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T.G
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 Posted: Fri Jul 27, 12 1:44 pm Post subject: Missing sound help please |
 
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Not to familiar with PC's anymore and a while ago i inadvertently on purpose my sound facility (as in the thingybob cleaning up malarkey said I hadn't used this since 1996 - so I deleted it - easily fooled by technology).
Now, I have the operating system disc, somewhere, is it just a matter of loading the disk and it will find the bit that's missing and re-add it and all will be as was or is it more complex than that? It's a very old OS windows xp
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sgt.colon
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Reboot your machine and if the driver has been deleted, it should say that it has found some new hardware. Follow the onscreen prompts. It may ask for a disk or it may not. Normally you get a disk with your machine that have the drivers on for most of the bits of hardware that is on the motherboard. |
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Wentworth
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 12 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| sgt.colon wrote: |
| Reboot your machine and if the driver has been deleted, it should say that it has found some new hardware. Follow the onscreen prompts. It may ask for a disk or it may not. Normally you get a disk with your machine that have the drivers on for most of the bits of hardware that is on the motherboard. |
You might have to shout or speak louder  |
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T.G
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 12 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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The machines been on and off hundreds of times since and it's never yet asked  |
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planetman
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 12 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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It might be worth looking in Device Manager to see if the sound hardware is present and has a driver loaded for it. You may have to reload the driver, or even uninstall the hardware so that Windows can pick it up again. |
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sgt.colon
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 9:23 am Post subject: |
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Or it could be that the sound card itself has given up the ghost. |
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vegplot
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 9:52 am Post subject: |
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If the machine is from a well known maker you should be able to find the appropriate drivers on their web site, often in the support section. |
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T.G
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| sgt.colon wrote: |
| Or it could be that the sound card itself has given up the ghost. |
No  I definitely know I deleted it .. I know this as I was there at the time
It's a machine made for me some years ago by the IT gurus in town, it's just that the idea of giving them the PC worries me, as there is a lot of info on it now which is confidential but isn't encrypted, there is a lot of research and also I have a habit of not very often backing things up and I get a lot of not yet released music sent to me from a friend who owns a rock magazine which isn't backed up, it would take me a week to back everything up now 
I realise this is of all my own doing and is entirely my own fault, will I learn a lesson from it? Yes, will it alter the way I behave, probably not |
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alison
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Can you not go into the sound options, and search for the sound card, then onto that makes website, and download the up to date drivers for that card? |
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sgt.colon
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 10:42 am Post subject: |
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OK TG, is your sound card onboard the motherboard or is it a seperate card?
If it's onboard, do you know the make and model of the motherboard? |
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vegplot
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| T.G wrote: |
| it would take me a week to back everything up now |
You know what to do. Start now before you lose it. |
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T.G
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| sgt.colon wrote: |
OK TG, is your sound card onboard the motherboard or is it a seperate card?
If it's onboard, do you know the make and model of the motherboard? |
erm, I like blue |
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T.G
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| alison wrote: |
| Can you not go into the sound options, and search for the sound card, then onto that makes website, and download the up to date drivers for that card? |
Probably, but I'm apprehensive I'll just Fk it up even more |
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T.G
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| vegplot wrote: |
| T.G wrote: |
| it would take me a week to back everything up now |
You know what to do. Start now before you lose it. |
You're not wrong |
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pookie
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 12 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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have you fixed it T.G.? |
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