I reformatted my hard drive and now I have NO SOUND! My sound card is connected and still nothing. It wont even show that I have a sound card connected. I am drawing a total blank on what to do. I NEED SOUND. If you can help me it would be much aprciated.

Thanks
Sean

 

Remove the sound card and reinstall it. Your system is not seeing it.

 

Do what I do. Kick it as hard as you can.

 

Have you reinstalled the drivers for your sound card?
Top is right turn off the system and unplug it,pull the card and reinstall it and a new hardware found will pop up after you boot up the computer,if it dont,try windows update,it may find that you need a driver and then download it.

 

Ok im back on now but nothing different??????? i dont understand it was working fine before and now it wont find it.

 

If it's an onboard soundcard you'll need the mainboard CD. Usually there is a menu called sound drivers or audio drivers for the install.

AlpineRAM

 

3krackeracing

You didn't mention which operating system you have. If it's windows ME.

1 Go to control panel
2 Click on systems
3 Click on device manager tab
4 Scroll down and highlight sound control
5 Click on remove
6 Re boot your computer

Important. Before you do this, do you have the little speaker Icon located near the time in your tray?

Alan

EDIT: You might want to send me an email before you proceed.

 

I'd bet your trying to use the Windows generic drivers. These don't work on some system OR your Windows CD may be before they came out with the drivers for your system. First, try going to the windows update site and see if it shows drivers for your system, if it does, your in luck. If not, go to the website for the manufacturer of your system. Get the drivers from there.

PM me if you need more help. I do this coutless times a day at school, I work in the computer center at my university.

 

what os did you have on there before you did the formatt
and what os did you put on there now

it just sound like a driver problem

not thing hard to fix

at least you still access to the web (to get the drivers)
you can email me if you like
i know a little about computers