ive played music for awhile on here the other day i tried to play some music on the live 365 web site...and its saying it cant find a sound card...i didnt know i had a sound card....and maybe whats wrong...how do i fix it.i run a microsoft on a old gateway.help a nigga out....gots to have my tunes.
asshole...yeah tried the volume....yeah no sound card...come on jason i know your nerdy ass knows whats wrong.
what version of windows? - have you done windows update? have you gone to gateways website to update anything lately? if windows 2000 try this: start button - settings - control panel - add and remove hardware....remove your sound card.. then go back and scan for new hardware.... BTW - if this makes you puter catch fire and explode - we never talked
First question is... What was the last thing you added or subtracted from the computer before the sound went away? Did a kid maybe add a game to the machine? Could be something substituted for the driver you were using before or it got deleted. When you do as suggested above, remember to reboot after you make changes at each step or the changes won't take effect and the results will fool you. Do the remove hardware, then reboot. Let it come up and reboot again so it saves the settings changes. THEN let it search for new hardware when you reboot again. If it doesn't search on it's own, do it in the control panel. As for the Volume, there's the volume on windows, the volume on the player program you're using, and the volume knob on your speakers. But that's not the problem. Windows can't find your sound driver. Or it can't detect your sound card because it isn't working. You may have to open the machine and look for a loose wire comming off the motherboard if you don't have a separate sound card. Most likely the driver you're using now has been switched and isn't looking for the right hardware. As for specific help, without knowing what version of windoze and what computer you're using, we can't get too specific. "Windows and an old Gateway" could mean anything back to Win 3.11 on a 286!
Depends. Could be a PCI or ISA Soundcard, or it could be a built in chipset on your motherboard. Either way, sounds like your having a driver conflict. Did you just install new hardware or software? Have you done all of the latest M$ updates?
Follow the speaker wires to the back of the computer. You can't miss it. If it has circuitry on it, it's the sound card. If it's just a couple jacks connected to the motherboard on the inside then your motherboard has a built in sound card. [ QUOTE ] its easy to fix. if it is running windows throw it out and buy a mac. [/ QUOTE ] Yea, right! Get yourself an over priced - non supported-outdated computer you can't upgrade. Then you can join the dozens of other happy MAC users. There's a reason MACs don't have virus problems. No one bothers to write them.
thanks guys...its built in.i had this guy do some work on it...he must have cleaned something out that he shouldnt have.i gotta get my tunes.later
outdated?? overpriced?? haha you made me laugh. if you claiming outdated cause of the mHz or now gHz myth i'll clear it up you can not compare two different chips by its clockspeed. you cant even compare a pentium 4 with a pentium 3 based on clock speed. Theres to much other stuff involved. and overpriced if you configure a dell with the same stuff you get with a mac it aint overpriced. the 600 dollar special you can't compare it to that. besides then theres the OS windows is slow cluncky and really bad at multi tasking. OSX handles multi tasking very well. don't get me started.
LOL and I've been building computers since the early 70's. Don't get me started either. I'm not fond of INTEL, WINDOZE, OR MAC OSX. But they won the money wars so we're stuck with them.
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