No Sound

[WildHorse]

Are you sure you connected all three (3) wires?

1) The data cable (ribbon cable)
2) the power cable
3) the small cable from the output to your audio on the motherboard?

1& 2 are obvious. It's easy to forget #3.

 

[johnsmitherson]

Yup, everything checks out.

 

[johnsmitherson]

I recently started using a computer that I had not used in a very long time. I replaced the HD, with a new one. It's running on XP. Anyway, I was trying to play music, but not sound is emitted from the speakers. I checked the Sounds and Audio Devices properties, and under Volume, it says: No Audio Device; under Audio, on the Sound playback part it says: No Playback Devices on the list menu, but I cant click on the list menu, where it says No playback devices. The same applies to the Volume tab.

The last time I used this computer, I was able to play music on it.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance.

 

[WildHorse]

Have you tried updating the driver(s)?
You'd go into Start / Right click on My Computer / Properties / Hardware tab / Device Manager button.

Then look for a yellow mark left of problem devices, and try to update their drivers online from right there within Device Manager. Probably look in (click the + to expand)
"Sound, video game and controllers" and also inside "System Devices".

Anywhere you see a yellow mark is a problem. Try to update drivers.

As long as you're sure all your electrical connections are good, and volume control is on, that's about all I can think of.

One time I had a "no sound" problem and everything looked good. But I eventually discovered that a "mute" checkbox was ticked in some other player I rarely use, somehow overriding the Windows volume control.

So that's my last idea, go through any software players and make sure none of them are set to "mute" or their volume turned all the way down. Nero Player, VLC, Classic Media Player, RealTEk AV Rack, whatever else you may have on there.

Good luck. Maybe someone else will post in here with other suggestions.

 

[johnsmitherson]

The drivers had to updated(or installed?). It's working fine now. Thanks a lot!!!