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Help! (OT) from the Windows folks!
I've checked "help" under Control Panel. Someone here pointed me in the
right direction but I didn't understand it before. As of some time yesterday I lost all sound on my XP (home edition) PC. I've checked all the connections, everything looks fine. I didn't change anything that I am aware of. I've done a cold reboot. I never thought I'd miss those annoying beeps and such but this is just too weird. I feel like I'm back to using an 8086 with DOS and no sound card. Maybe setting the system restore point back to two days ago would help? Couldn't hurt! Problem is I can't find where to set the date back. (sigh) I'm not a Windows person. Any help? Jill |
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Help! (OT) from the Windows folks!
jmcquown kirjoitti:
I've checked "help" under Control Panel. Someone here pointed me in the right direction but I didn't understand it before. As of some time yesterday I lost all sound on my XP (home edition) PC. I've checked all the connections, everything looks fine. I didn't change anything that I am aware of. I've done a cold reboot. I never thought I'd miss those annoying beeps and such but this is just too weird. I feel like I'm back to using an 8086 with DOS and no sound card. Maybe setting the system restore point back to two days ago would help? Couldn't hurt! Problem is I can't find where to set the date back. (sigh) I'm not a Windows person. Any help? Jill I've some times had problems with the sound and XP, especially if there had been some updating done recently. At those times I've got my sound back by going to (dang! what are they called in English, my XP's in Finnish...trying a direct translation here Control Panel - System - Equipment (or Hardware, anyway the tab next to name of computer) - and Equipment/Hardware Control. You get a list of all cd/dvd-drives, mouses, hard drives, ports and *Sound, Video and Game Drivers*!!! Look up your sound card here, right click on the mouse and choose Properties from the little pop-up menu, select the tab "Driver" and click on Previous Driver to get the one you had previously, and which apparently worked. I hope you can make some sense out of that... it is hard to know what the tabs and buttons are called in the English version... -- Christine in Laitila, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 |
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Help! (OT) from the Windows folks!
jmcquown wrote:
I've checked "help" under Control Panel. Someone here pointed me in the right direction but I didn't understand it before. As of some time yesterday I lost all sound on my XP (home edition) PC. I've checked all the connections, everything looks fine. I didn't change anything that I am aware of. I've done a cold reboot. I never thought I'd miss those annoying beeps and such but this is just too weird. I feel like I'm back to using an 8086 with DOS and no sound card. Maybe setting the system restore point back to two days ago would help? Couldn't hurt! Problem is I can't find where to set the date back. (sigh) I'm not a Windows person. Any help? Jill Go to the control panal, find sound and audio devices and click the box to place the volume control on the task bar. It's likely that somehow the sound has been muted. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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Adrian A wrote:
jmcquown wrote: I've checked "help" under Control Panel. Someone here pointed me in the right direction but I didn't understand it before. As of some time yesterday I lost all sound on my XP (home edition) PC. I've checked all the connections, everything looks fine. I didn't change anything that I am aware of. I've done a cold reboot. I never thought I'd miss those annoying beeps and such but this is just too weird. I feel like I'm back to using an 8086 with DOS and no sound card. Maybe setting the system restore point back to two days ago would help? Couldn't hurt! Problem is I can't find where to set the date back. (sigh) I'm not a Windows person. Any help? Jill Go to the control panal, find sound and audio devices and click the box to place the volume control on the task bar. It's likely that somehow the sound has been muted. I checked that. Nothing is selected as muted. (sigh) Jill |
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Help! (OT) from the Windows folks!
"jmcquown" wrote:
I've checked "help" under Control Panel. Someone here pointed me in the right direction but I didn't understand it before. As of some time yesterday I lost all sound on my XP (home edition) PC. I've checked all the connections, everything looks fine. I didn't change anything that I am aware of. I've done a cold reboot. I never thought I'd miss those annoying beeps and such but this is just too weird. I feel like I'm back to using an 8086 with DOS and no sound card. Maybe setting the system restore point back to two days ago would help? Couldn't hurt! Problem is I can't find where to set the date back. (sigh) I'm not a Windows person. Any help? Jill Go to Programs-Accessories-System Tools. You will find system restore there. Randy http://picasaweb.google.com/crmartin1 http://kittenwar.com/kittens/74045/ |
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Help! (OT) from the Windows folks!
Randy wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote: I've checked "help" under Control Panel. Someone here pointed me in the right direction but I didn't understand it before. As of some time yesterday I lost all sound on my XP (home edition) PC. I've checked all the connections, everything looks fine. I didn't change anything that I am aware of. I've done a cold reboot. I never thought I'd miss those annoying beeps and such but this is just too weird. I feel like I'm back to using an 8086 with DOS and no sound card. Maybe setting the system restore point back to two days ago would help? Couldn't hurt! Problem is I can't find where to set the date back. (sigh) I'm not a Windows person. Any help? Jill Go to Programs-Accessories-System Tools. You will find system restore there. Randy http://picasaweb.google.com/crmartin1 http://kittenwar.com/kittens/74045/ Thank you!! That worked! I have no idea what I inadvertently did but setting it back the day before fixed the problem. As I said, it was rather disconcerting to not hear even the annoying beeps anymore. I felt like I was living back in the 1980's before sound cards were prevalent and I was on an old DOS machine LOL Thank you! I'll make a note of how to get there in case I need the info in the future. Jill |
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Help! (OT) from the Windows folks!
Have you check to see if the speakers are muted? I think it's under
Sound/Volume Control/Advanced (or Properties). |
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Pat wrote:
Have you check to see if the speakers are muted? I think it's under Sound/Volume Control/Advanced (or Properties). The resetting of the system restore point to two days back fixed it. I had checked everything else under the sun that had to do with sound. I still don't know what caused the problem but it's gone now. |
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