I think my onboard sound has blown!

nffc10 · 02-01-2008, 06:36 PM

Yesterday my sound was working fine on my computer (Onboard). Then today i turned on my computer and i can't remember weather i heard the windows logon message or not, but i can't get no sound out of my speakers!
I've put in my old ESS 1969 PCI sound card and i can really tell how rubbish the sound quality is!

Is there anyway in Windows that i could find out if i had broken (somehow) my onboard sound?

What sound card would be my best bet?

I don't really want to spend much more than £15 and i don't really know how much one would cost.

Thanks,
Liam

StrangleHold · 02-01-2008, 07:56 PM

Look in device manager by you onboard sound and see if theres a yellow exclamation point next to it. If so try installing your onboard sound drivers again and see what happens.

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nffc10 Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nottingham Age: 17 Posts: 1,630	I think my onboard sound has blown! Yesterday my sound was working fine on my computer (Onboard). Then today i turned on my computer and i can't remember weather i heard the windows logon message or not, but i can't get no sound out of my speakers! I've put in my old ESS 1969 PCI sound card and i can really tell how rubbish the sound quality is! Is there anyway in Windows that i could find out if i had broken (somehow) my onboard sound? What sound card would be my best bet? I don't really want to spend much more than £15 and i don't really know how much one would cost. Thanks, Liam __________________ Amd Athlon 64 X2 6000+ @ 3.31GHz Asrock AM2NF3 VSTA 2gb Corsair XMS2 PC5400 Sapphire X800XL 256MB AGP 80GB Maxtor Hard Drive OCZ StealthXtreme 600W PSU Pictures - 1 2 3 Last edited by nffc10; 02-01-2008 at 06:38 PM.

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StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: East Tn. Posts: 6,213	Look in device manager by you onboard sound and see if theres a yellow exclamation point next to it. If so try installing your onboard sound drivers again and see what happens. __________________ NZXT Apollo-Silver Athlon 64 X2 5600 3.1ghz. Gigabyte GA-M55SLI S4 G Skill DDR2 800@888 2gb MSI Geforce 7950 W/D Sata 3.0 250gb. "I think there is a world market," IBM chief Thomas Watson famously declared one day in 1943, "for maybe five computers..."

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