Hey er anyone help with this my speakers just randomly stopped working they play NO sound at all thru my computer, i have a PCI card and everythings installed correctly. They were working yesterday. My windows says that everythings fine.

Ive tried all sorts of formatted songs with all the audio programs on my computer, i tried an Audio CD too... My "Audio Demo" the test thats on here i tried to use and i got a variety of error messages the first time but after restarting the demo worked except that i still didnt hear anything. I havnt installed any new hardware scince they have stopped working or done anything that could possibly prevent them from working.

try a pair of headphones to see if its a hardware problem or not, if headphones dont work either then either the speakers are bust, or the wire is fucked.

Try less drastic methods like Kao's headphone idea first before considering this;
Try putting the PCI card into another PCI slot, my old PC had the same problem and that always fixed it.
Also it messed up my dial up connection; if you use a dial-up connection (non-broadband) check if that's still working...

I cant be bothered to take apart my computer but i will if i have to. i tested the speakers in my iPod and they worked fine so its not them looks to be the hardware ill test headfones..No i use broadband...Testing headfones now..P.S the volume ISNT on mute... anddd headfones..failed..looks to be the PCI card...

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I cant be bothered to take apart my computer

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lol my computer has like 99999999999 screws in the back of it its going to take ages...

THats holding all of the attachments on, it should be a simple slide out,  so it shouldn't take long.

I did it, i switched the PCI card into the 2nd slot and yes its in properly but it still dosnt work..any ideas? is it possible that my PCI card is entierly broken and i need a new one? It is five years old

Edit: I installed the lastest website drivers and everything worked until i played an MP3 in winamp...windows media player had no probs (that was a .wma file btw) so maybe its a conflict between my PCI card and Winamp or my PCI card and MP3's? Any ideas?

I have something like that:
i use Sunrise MP to stream Swiss Radio stations, when i launch winamp while it is playing theres no sound anymore, maybe u got a proble like it?

maybe...im going to reinstall later tonight and try not using winamp and play the MP3's thru WMP and if it works i might just have to avoid Winamp

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maybe...im going to reinstall later tonight and try not using winamp and play the MP3's thru WMP and if it works i might just have to avoid Winamp

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Ok i opened my MP3's in WMP And it works perfect so its obviously a conflict between my PCI card and Winamp player for some reason (It always worked before)
No i dont have another OS or another account..should i test the card with my friends cpu and winamp to see if its just my winamp or system config?

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its obviously a conflict between my PCI card and Winamp player for some reason

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No i dont have another OS or another account

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my friends cpu

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Check the volume control

Start > Control Panel > Switch to Classic View if needed > Sounds and Audio Devices > Click the box to place an icon of a speaker in the taskbar. If you get an error about something not being installed do this.

Close the Sounds and Audio Devices and double click Add Remove Programs > Click Add Remove Windows COmponents on the left > Onces its loaded uncheck Accessories and recheck it then click Next all the way through

Make sure your PCI sound device is windows' default device. (Unless your PCI sound card is the only sound device).