No sound, audio problem

[tomyhill598]

I have an Abit IC7-G mobo as you can see below, and the Creative Megaworks 5.1 surround system, the one that is 550 watts.

Everything worked fine after I put the computer together except for some memory problems a while ago. Just last night, I was playing an online game. The audio worked normally then. I installed Norton AV software just to see if I had anything lurking around in my computer. Well, it found seven viruses, and they all were located the SunMicrosystems Java folder. It said "Trojan.xxxx", and the x's were different words. I left for about an hour, and when I came back, there was no audio coming from the speakers.

I made sure nothing was muted, I have a Logitech Elite keyboard and the volume was turned up on it. I uninstalled the Realtek audio driver and I re-installed the updated one from the Realtek website. Nothing worked again, so I un-installed the driver again and reinstalled the Realtek audio driver from Abit's website. Again, nothing happened.

Under the sounds and video menu in the Device Manager, I have Audio Codecs, Legacy Audio drivers, Media Control Devices, and Realtek AC'97 Audio apart from the video devices I have in there. I cannot uninstall the Legacy audio drivers for some reason, I dont know why I have two drivers for the sound (Legacy and Realtek).

Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Any input will be appreciated.

 

[mechBgon]

Hmm, can you go into Device Manager and do a "remove" of the sound hardware, and then have Windows rediscover it? Or if all else fails, you might try a repair-install of Windows (pretend you're doing a fresh install the first time Windows Setup asks if you want Repair, and then when it spots the existing C:\WINDOWS installation, let it repair it).

 

[tomyhill598]

I let Windows find it itself, and it still didnt work. I tried to do the Windows repair, but it asked me for the Administrator password, and I dont remember setting one. It said wrong password after several passwords I thought might be it, and then it gave me a C:/Windows prompt, with a long list of commands. Is this where I should have been? If so, what command should I use?

 

[mechBgon]

Re-read my info on the Repair procedure You want to feint a fresh install the first time it tries to push a Repair on you. Then it gets its stuff unpacked and ogles the hard drive and spies the existing Windows installation, and it offers you the Repair option again, and this time you say

heck, go for it, Mr. Gates.

and it will go and re-acquaint itself with all the hardware but leaves your files and programs in place (ideally). It may be a little bit loopy in the aftermath, this isn't always a perfect cure. Worst-case scenario, burn all your stuff to CD and reformat/reinstall.

By the way, I would suggest turning off System Restore and deleting all the System Restore files at this point. A co-worker brought in her husband's Dell, and guess what? It has a 60GB hard drive, it had about 43GB of data on it, and about 37GB of it turned out to be System Restore files, some of which were virus-infected or spyware .DLLs that Windows had saved for a rainy day. None of that, thank you! How to free yourself from System-Restore slavery

 

[acemcmac]

IC7 Sound blows CHUNKS. You need to install the propriatary drivers from realtek... or just get a soundblaster and deal with the fact that ABIT did an exceptionally crappy job with their onboard sound implementation :beer: