no sound

thewall · 09-28-2007, 02:10 PM

Hi everybody another newbie.

I have a Gateway comp running windows xp media center,more times than not i have no sound on anything,the pre-installed software is Realtek high definition audio,driver version 5.10.0.5294.In the sound properties it says This device cannot start (code 10).Looked in device manager and there is a yellow warning sign,on the taskbar the volume icon is not there.The only way i can get sound is to shutdown and start again but this does not always work.The comp is only six months old is the sound card on the way out.Also the size of the drivers in the add/remove progs it's 45.5mb,but i have found drivers on a web site and they are 25mb, would it be safe to download these or is there somthing missing. Many thanx

andy faith · 09-28-2007, 02:13 PM

yeh I would advise you to try the other drivers, that may well solve the problem. size isnt a problem. The drivers are probably less than one meg, it'll be including some application aswell.

thewall · 09-28-2007, 02:37 PM

thanks for the prompt reply,do i uninstall the old drivers first.

09-28-2007, 02:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
thewall New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: lincolnshire UK Posts: 12	no sound Hi everybody another newbie. I have a Gateway comp running windows xp media center,more times than not i have no sound on anything,the pre-installed software is Realtek high definition audio,driver version 5.10.0.5294.In the sound properties it says This device cannot start (code 10).Looked in device manager and there is a yellow warning sign,on the taskbar the volume icon is not there.The only way i can get sound is to shutdown and start again but this does not always work.The comp is only six months old is the sound card on the way out.Also the size of the drivers in the add/remove progs it's 45.5mb,but i have found drivers on a web site and they are 25mb, would it be safe to download these or is there somthing missing. Many thanx

09-28-2007, 02:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	yeh I would advise you to try the other drivers, that may well solve the problem. size isnt a problem. The drivers are probably less than one meg, it'll be including some application aswell. __________________ Main PC: Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Geforce4 Ti 4200, Asrock K7S8X mobo, 2x40GB HDD. NEC DVDRW, Pioneer DVD\CDRW Backup PC: Athlon XP 2000+, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD, Radeon 7500 Main Laptop: Inspiron 6400: Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 80GB SATA HDD, 2GB PC2-4200, DVD-RW, Radeon X1300 Backup laptop: Latitude D410, Pentium M 1.73GHz, 60GB HDD, 1GB RAM, DVD-ROM

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09-28-2007, 02:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
thewall New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: lincolnshire UK Posts: 12	thanks for the prompt reply,do i uninstall the old drivers first.