Sound problem

[nzonian]

Hey, i'm not sure if anyone can help, but my sound isn't working all of a sudden, it was working perfectly fine last night, now all of a sudden its not working, ive checked if its connected, it must be because when i put it full blast, you can here background crackling. I'm not sure what else i can really say...anyone help please

[Martyn]

Start > Accessories > Entertainment > Volume Control.

Check nothing is muted and that all the bars are at the top.

[nzonian]

wow thats weird, its not there :s any other way i can check it

[nzonian]

ok let me simplify this, my speakers aren't dead because you can here crackling when doing stuff on the computer. But when ever i want to play sound, it doesn't work...:s any ideas

[Martyn]

  nzonian said:

wow thats weird, its not there :s any other way i can check it

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You must of moved it or something. Go to Start > Run and type this without the quotes:

"%SystemRoot%\system32\sndvol32.exe"

[nzonian]

cannot find that file? please please tell me whats happening now...how weird

[uniacidz]

Rebooted?

[nzonian]

ive rebooted, system restore and tried basic stuff

[RangerLG]

Right click on My Computer, select properties, go to Device Manager.

Make sure the sound card is being seen, if not, reinstall the driver.

[nzonian]

no its seems like theres files missing, my uncles at work and he goes theres something missing because on C-MOS theres nothing at all with sound, so he will help out later, but still, i've got a inbuilt sound card, so not sure...

[Richardo]

Just go to run and type SNDVOL32 in the box and make sure all the levels are up and not muted.

The CMOS probably has nothing to do with this. If your sound is on board, there will probably be an entry in your CMOS Setup program that will Enable or Disable the onboard sound. However, if you didn't manually change that, and everything else is working fine, then thats probably not the issue.

If the SNDVOL32 check doesn't work, and all your wires are plugged in the right places, there is more chance that the sound driver got messed up than anything else. Go into Device Manager and make sure that under Sound,Video & Game Controllers there is nothing with a yellow exclamation mark. If there is, then that item has a problem/missing/screwed up driver.