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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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Originally posted by Scone
I cant be bothered to take apart my computer

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Its a 2 minute job...although I do know someone who got a small electric shock off his PCI graphics card when the dumbass took it out without unplugging the computer...

Just simply take the lid off your computer, take out the PCI card and place it in another slot...take your pic...you're hardly "taking apart your computer", lol

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