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jenepherreMy earlier post? About my sound card having died? WRONG! I've never been so happy to be stupid in all my life. hahahahahaha
So, my sound card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. So I was on the Creative site looking through their knowledge base, and found something about a "Digital Output Only" checkbox in the sound card's settings. I hadn't really noticed it before, even though I looked at that very screen on my 'puter a couple of times at least. See, the thing is... speakers and earphones? Not digital output. I don't have anything connected to my computer that uses digital output. So if the "Digital Output Only" box is checked, um... no analog output will occur. Thus, speakers and earphones will produce no sound.
Now, I honestly have no clue how that box got checked, because I wasn't even doing anything sound-related at the time the loss of sound happened. I was burning a data dvd (and btw, my dvd burner... it don't need no sound card or speakers to make lots of noise on its own ::nods::). Anyway, if you have a Soundblaster card and are curious, the box in question can be found on the Speaker Settings screen.
So...
Me = Stupid
Me = Happy
Me = Saved $100+
Me = Really Happy
Me = Hearing Brian say "the excitement" again every time a new email comes in! YAY!
So, my sound card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. So I was on the Creative site looking through their knowledge base, and found something about a "Digital Output Only" checkbox in the sound card's settings. I hadn't really noticed it before, even though I looked at that very screen on my 'puter a couple of times at least. See, the thing is... speakers and earphones? Not digital output. I don't have anything connected to my computer that uses digital output. So if the "Digital Output Only" box is checked, um... no analog output will occur. Thus, speakers and earphones will produce no sound.
Now, I honestly have no clue how that box got checked, because I wasn't even doing anything sound-related at the time the loss of sound happened. I was burning a data dvd (and btw, my dvd burner... it don't need no sound card or speakers to make lots of noise on its own ::nods::). Anyway, if you have a Soundblaster card and are curious, the box in question can be found on the Speaker Settings screen.
So...
Me = Stupid
Me = Happy
Me = Saved $100+
Me = Really Happy
Me = Hearing Brian say "the excitement" again every time a new email comes in! YAY!
