Computer woes again...
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jenepherreIt seems like something on my computer is always breaking or wearing out or getting screwed up somehow. You don't think it could have something to do with me using the damn thing for hours and hours on a daily basis, do you?
Anyway - this isn't too horrible. Well it is, but it isn't. My sound card died last night. That's gotta be it, because the speakers are fine (tested them on another 'puter) and I even plugged my earphones into the earphone jack on the front of the CPU - nothing. Well, a tiny bit of static, actually. And when I was going through the troubleshooter for the sound card, and it (apparently) played a test sound, the static did seem to increase just a teeny tiny bit.
The computer still recognizes that the sound card is there, and claims it's working properly. I tried updating the drivers, and it tells me I already have the most up-to-date drivers. I've checked everything I can think of to check. No luck. So I guess I'm off to shop for a new sound card. Never installed one of those before, but since I have installed graphics cards, hard drives, CD-ROM drives, RAM, etc. I'm not too worried.
I thought the main thing I'd miss would be playing music on my computer, because I do that a lot. But what really miss is little system sounds like Brian saying "the excitement" when I get a new email. And being able to watch - and *hear* - online video clips. It's sad... v. v. sad.
Anyway - this isn't too horrible. Well it is, but it isn't. My sound card died last night. That's gotta be it, because the speakers are fine (tested them on another 'puter) and I even plugged my earphones into the earphone jack on the front of the CPU - nothing. Well, a tiny bit of static, actually. And when I was going through the troubleshooter for the sound card, and it (apparently) played a test sound, the static did seem to increase just a teeny tiny bit.
The computer still recognizes that the sound card is there, and claims it's working properly. I tried updating the drivers, and it tells me I already have the most up-to-date drivers. I've checked everything I can think of to check. No luck. So I guess I'm off to shop for a new sound card. Never installed one of those before, but since I have installed graphics cards, hard drives, CD-ROM drives, RAM, etc. I'm not too worried.
I thought the main thing I'd miss would be playing music on my computer, because I do that a lot. But what really miss is little system sounds like Brian saying "the excitement" when I get a new email. And being able to watch - and *hear* - online video clips. It's sad... v. v. sad.
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Date: Monday, November 13th, 2006 03:45 am (UTC)If you can't update the drivers (because the latest driver is installed), did you try uninstalling the soundcard via the device manager and then either reboot or scan for new hardware from within the device manager?
This force installs the driver and will replace a corrupt driver (usually).
Won't fix broken hardware though :)
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Date: Monday, November 13th, 2006 08:08 am (UTC)