Why wont my computer recognize my sound card?
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To disable the onboard sound card, you have to go into your computer's BIOS before boot up.\n\nTo go into BIOS:\n1.  Reboot your computer\n2.  Watch what the screen says.  Most BIOSs will prompt you to press F2 for setup or one of the function keys.\n3.  Once you are in the BIOS, you will have to look for an option for settings or hardware and search through there until you find the sound card on or off.\n4.  Be careful not to change anything other than your sound card settings.  Changing settings in BIOS may have adverse affects.  When you do find your sound cards setting be sure and save those in your BIOS\n5.  Test your new settings by rebooting (without your new sound card) to see if your sound card works.\n\nInstalling the new sound card\n1.  How your computer recognizes the new sound card depends on your OS.  Windows XP and 2000 are plug n play.  This means that they will recognize the new hardware and prompt you to install.\n2.  If you are using Windows XP, it recognizes most popular brands of hardware.\n3.  Drivers - Newer versions of windows will detect your new hardware and prompt you for a drivers disk.  Follow the prompts.\n\nSound Card Documentation\nI would definitely consult with your sound card documentation.  They usually provide information as to how to install your hardware on the various operating systems.
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Quickest easiest fix for problems like this is often  to download the newest drivers for your sound card.\n\n1. First you will need to know the name and model of your sound card, right click on my computer, click on properties, select the hardware tab then click device manager. Then click on the plus sign next to sound, video and game controllers. Your sound card is listed here. Sound Blaster is a common device.\n\n2. Type the name of your device into a Google Search to the effect of: "Drivers *name of sound card*" This will give you a bunch of sites you can download the newest driver. Download it to a location you'll remember, like your desktop.\n\n3. Once downloaded double click it and the driver should auto install. Reset your computer and you'll be back online.\n\nIf this doesn't solve the problem try uninstalling the driver first then reinstalling it. If this doesn't work you might have hardware problems. These are too many and too varied to answer here, call a friend who knows alot about computers and have them come over.
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Hey fellow\n\nMy c-media sound card keeps tormenting me as your device is doing to you..\n\nI keep trying and trying ... clean the PCI interface then change it between another pci cards .. I.E. switch the one you put in your modem with the one you put your audio device...\n\nTry to clean the copper pins on the audio device by a pencil (rubber) eraser .. i don't know exactly what it does but it works for me...\n\nThen switch your computer and at the boot .. you should recognize the identified card as multimedia device ... it won't work in windows unless you see it at the boot time...\n\nGood luck\n\nCheers
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Take your sound card out and make sure your computer still works. Then try putting it back in.
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You're going to slap me for suggesting it, but check the following first:\n\n1. Go to the control panel, check sound.  Is it muted?  Is anything muted?\n2. Double check that the speaker is in the correct port, and not going through another device (speaker/headset splitter, etc) first.\n3. Make sure the card is seated properly.\n\nOnce you've done these, go to the control panel, then system, then hardware, then device manager and make sure the computer knows the card is present and installed.  Make sure it thinks it's running.\n\nGood luck.
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You will probably need the driver CD that came with either the sound card - motherboard if integral, or CD pack if a store bought made up system.\n\nDelete it from CONTROL PANEL- SYSTEM - Hardware, then reboot and have the CD ready when it says 'Found New Hardware'\n\nIf you haven't got it, message me with make and model of sound card
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If you had sound before you probably just lost the driver for it. You don't need a card. If you bought the PC new look in the owners manual to see what make sound device you have and reinstall the driver. With XP it's on your Hard Drive already, just pick it from the list. If it's an on-board sound chip you may have to go into the setup utility (in your bios) and turn on Sound Blaster Legacy support. If all else fails see if the speakers are plugged in.
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you need to downlad and install the drivers for the sound card. Right click on the My Computer icon on the start menu or desktop, whereever it is, go to properties, and click. go to hardware, system devices. You sound card or it might say audio device will have a little yellow mark next to it. double click it and go to drivers, and update drivers. make sure you are online, and it should find the drivers for it
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you should get the righ driver of you soundcard first.\nwhen you install your soundcard on you computer,restart it,and it will suggest you there is a new device,then choose the right driver....it'll be done!
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was it working earlier??\ntake properties of my computer\nclick on hardware tab then Device Manager button\nnow click on sound,video and game controler \nand see if drivers are installed(no yellow icon there) \nif driver is not there then install the driver for you card\n\nremove the driver if there is yello icon in there.\npress refresh/scan for hardware\nnow window will open for your hardware, \nselect the location where your sound driver is \nnext..next \ndriver installed..\n\ncheck the sound by doing this\ngoto control panel\nand click on "Sounds and Audio Devices" icon \nclick on sound tab \nselect any of the event sound and press play button \nif no sound comes out then probabaly its your headphone problem
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Do you have a sound card installed or are you trying to use onboard sound (from your motherboard)? Is there a listing in Device Manager for Unknown Devices? If so, it may be your sound card, so right click it and update the drivers. \n\nDo you have the same problem when you restart your computer?\n\n\nOk, have you tried placing the sound card into a different PCI slot on the motherboard? If so, and you are not getting any sound and there is no soundcard listed in Device Manager, then you either have a bad sound card or you are having an IRQ conflict, or you (unlikely) have bad PCI slots on the motherboard. I would put my money on a bad sound card as IRQ conflicts are are usually corrected by Windows, but you never know...
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you may need a sound card. but i'm no computer expert. I just know when I had no sound that was my problem.
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Probably your sound card is defective or you hav'nt install the sound drivers properly
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You can go to your control panel and click on your "Sound and audio devices" icon doing so will get you the "Sound and audio devices Properties" in this window go to the Audio tab in the top and see if any thing is listed under the default device if there is nothing listed try clicking the drop down menu but if you see the menu has been disabled that mean your sound card driver have been corrupted. If your sound card is an internal sound card inbuilt on your mother board then try using your mother board CD and install the audio driver... I think this will work. \n\nBest Of luck
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You have to reinstall the driver for your sound card...\n\nInsert the driver CD that came with your pc. Install it and it should work again. if you cannot find your cd, go to support.dell.com and they will have the latest driver updates for you.
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Reinstall the drivers.\n\nYou can look in the 'control panel / system / hardware / device manager', and make sure that your sound card is showing up under Sound, Video, and Game Controllers.  If it's not then you have a hardware problem.
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Maybe you should Reinstall your Sound Card Driver, Insert the Installation CD in the drive and try to Re-install the driver, \nI hope you know how to Re-Install Drivers...