Squee!!!

My 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!

In case you didn't already hear...

LJ is offering a week of extra paid time to anyone who had a paid account during the outage back on Nov. 4th. You only have a week to claim the extra time, so don't put it off too long.

The announcement:
http://community.livejournal.com/paidmembers/18838.html

The actual link to claim your additional paid time:
http://www.livejournal.com/pay/claim.bml

I clicked on it just to see what it would say (I have a permanent account).

"This journal is a permanent account and as such has free time forever. You cannot give extra paid time to permanent accounts."

Frank the goat just has no sense of humor. LOL