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Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-13-2007 at 04:30 PM

bah, For some reason Last night vista stopped sending any sounds. At first i thought "well, wtf.. oh well, will be fixed next reboot"
But now i have Tried rebooting several times, changing the ports the speakers in, and un-pluging/re-pluging the speakers mains socket. Still no good.
Anybody know of any resolution to the sound problem? or any good sound drivers that will work on vista?

-Windows vista Ultimate
-and some really old TINY speakers (if anyone really remembers them )

EDIT I also just noticed that music wont even attempt to play i n foobar ^o)

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by vaccination on 03-13-2007 at 04:34 PM

Uninstall and reinstall the latest drivers. (And check to see if there are any Vista specific drivers for them.)

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-13-2007 at 04:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by vaccination
Uninstall and reinstall the latest drivers.

1. Tiny went out of business years ago, i need new speakers
2. i never installed the drivers for them in the first place anyway, and they worked on a clean install of vista up untill now..

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by ShawnZ on 03-13-2007 at 04:51 PM

you can't get speaker drivers, he meant soundcard drivers

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-13-2007 at 04:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
you can't get speaker drivers, he meant soundcard drivers

Ohhh, i wondered why that sounded wrong

Is there anyway i can find out what make my sound card is without opening the PC?

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by MeEtc on 03-13-2007 at 04:55 PM

WINKEY - Break (opens System applet) hardware tab > Device manager. Find Audio devices, hopefully your sound card will be there
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here's mine as an example

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-13-2007 at 05:02 PM

Mine... :undecided:

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RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by MeEtc on 03-13-2007 at 05:05 PM

looks like a generic microsoft driver then

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-13-2007 at 05:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MeEtc
looks like a generic microsoft driver then

So what would i google for the drivers? i've tried a few times, and nothing relovant comes up :/

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Kenji on 03-13-2007 at 05:36 PM

Try disabling it and enabling it again, i had a similar problem on my old PC...

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-13-2007 at 05:44 PM

Nope, not working..
Also, when i turn up full, i can hear a slight buzzing... it's not very loud though, and probably very insignificant

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by s7a5 on 03-14-2007 at 12:06 AM

When u access "Sounds and Audio Devices in control panel what message do u get?

If it looks like u have no problem with drivers do the following:
go to your audio mixer in control panel and make sure your WAVE buss is not muted and the fader is all the way up

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Hank on 03-14-2007 at 12:31 AM

im guessing its an Intel Motherboard? wouldn't the drivers be on the Intel site?

also check to see if there are any conflicts by right clicking on the Device an choosing Properties an click on the Resources tab

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Lou on 03-14-2007 at 12:45 AM

That driver caused me some problem on my other computer. It's a pretty bad generic driver, and generally doesn't seem to work at all. If you can find a program to check what sound card you have (or give up and open it) you could check it out and get some drivers

That's most likely the only way to get it working, as it seems the generic drivers are rather bad.

RE: RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by rav0 on 03-14-2007 at 06:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by .OxY
when i turn up full, i can hear a slight buzzing... it's not very loud though, and probably very insignificant

The buzzing is probably just noise from the sound adaptor, and would be there even when it was working fine. At least you know that the adaptor isn't fried.

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-25-2007 at 08:23 PM

quote:
Originally posted by HSV
im guessing its an Intel Motherboard? wouldn't the drivers be on the Intel site?

i'm not sure, but it came with a CD with all necessary drivers included, so i just installed all of those... :/
I'll check intel site now, thanks

EDIT: i need to find out the sound card type/name... :^)

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by joemailey on 03-27-2007 at 08:16 AM

Is your PC custom built? or is it like Hp/compaq/ Dell?

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-27-2007 at 08:20 AM

quote:
Originally posted by joemailey
Is your PC custom built? or is it like Hp/compaq/ Dell?

Yes, it is custom built.

EDIT: dont worry, it's working now.

RE: Vista sound problems... ;/ by Oxy on 03-27-2007 at 01:23 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Phillip

quote:
Originally posted by .OxY
EDIT: dont worry, it's working now.
Can you post what was wrong with it and how you fixed it so if similar problems arise.

I'm not sure.. my driver software must have auto-updated, it just started working randomly.. ^o)