Speakers not working...

[bentz626]

I just finished building my first computer yesterday. Everyhting is working great except the sound. I ahve the speakers plugged in and the volume up but I can't hear a damn thing. The only thing I hear every once in a while is the built in pc speaker in the tower when I'm prompted for something on Windows XP. Any clue what the cause may be? I haven't heard the bultl in speaker sound for years, do you thinik I have to disconnect that? Any help will be appreciated greatly! thanks

Geoff

 

[Grunt03]

have you checked you BIOS? Different MB's you must go into the BIOS and enable the sound device.........
Check device manager?

 

[moonsite]

Check your device manager to make sure the sound is working in the first place. control panel/system/hardware/device manager/sound and game ....

Also most of the time, people make the simple mistake of plugging in the wrong port for sound.

 

[bentz626]

I found what the problem was...duh I never installed all the audio devices and drivers from the mobo disk. Everything is cool now. Thanks for the reply.

Geoff