No Audio!

[shoobster]

I was installing a CD burner (the 4th IDE device in my machine)
and when I turned my PC back on, there was no sound! This
morning, I went through a fresh install of XP to see if there was
something wrong, but there's no sound still! This is
extremely frustrating because I listen to a lot of music/podcasts. I have a
Chaintech ZNF3-250 motherboard and have the Envy24 driver
installed.

Please! Someone Help!!

Audio solution - integrated codec
I don't know the driver version, its the one on Chaintech's site
CPU type and speed-AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Motherboard make and model-Chaintech ZNF3-250
Chipset-nforce3
Video card or integrated graphics solution-video card (geforce fx 5500)
RAM, amount and speed-769 MB PC2700
Operating system and service packs-XP SP2

 

[Alkalyne]

A Hardware issue. Did you double check everything inside? Are the rear audio connections damaged or disconnected. Are the speakers operable?

 

[shoobster]

Well, they were working yesterday. I don't see how they could have gotten damaged while I installed the cd burner

 

[PurdueRy]

Did you connect an analog audio cable? If so, remove it.

 

[shoobster]

all I did was connect the IDE and power cable to the CD burner. Maybe the onboard sound died somehow?

 

[PurdueRy]

try Nvidia's drivers, also make sure onboard sound is enabled in the BIOS. I disable it because I have a card, so this could have changed. Other than that just make sure the sound is not muted in windows

 

[FlyingPenguin]

You may have just loosened a cable or maybe unseated your sound card (if you're not using onboard audio).

- Are the speakers still connected (stupid question I know, but you may have lossened the plug when you were working on the computer). Plug the speakers into a radio or MP3 player to test them. Connect a pair of headphones to the computer to see if you're getting audio out of the sound card.

- Open the Windows audio mixer and make sure that the master and wave channels are turned up and aren't muted.

- Open the Windows Control Panel, click on "Sounds and Audio Devices" and click on the Audio tab. Are default playback and recording devices listed or is it grayed out?

- Open the Device Manager and see if there's any exclamation marks next to your audio devices or "Other" devices.

Hope this helps...

 

[shoobster]

Originally posted by: FlyingPenguin
You may have just loosened a cable or maybe unseated your sound card (if you're not using onboard audio).

- Are the speakers still connected (stupid question I know, but you may have lossened the plug when you were working on the computer). Plug the speakers into a radio or MP3 player to test them. Connect a pair of headphones to the computer to see if you're getting audio out of the sound card.

- Open the Windows audio mixer and make sure that the master and wave channels are turned up and aren't muted.

- Open the Windows Control Panel, click on "Sounds and Audio Devices" and click on the Audio tab. Are default playback and recording devices listed or is it grayed out?

- Open the Device Manager and see if there's any exclamation marks next to your audio devices or "Other" devices.

Hope this helps...

Nothing's working. I'll ask mom to drive me down to Circuit City tonight to buy a PCI sound card