I am completely lost here.
I recently installed Sound Blaster Audigy sound card. It worked for a brief period but then turned out to be to glitchy (was difficult to install and stopped working a couple of times). No problem. I uninstalled the Creative Technology drivers, removed the sound card itself and wanted to proceed back to using my old integrated sound card.
Nope.
For some unexplicable reason, my PC decided that it will not play any sounds any more.
The little green bar indicates it's receiving sound, there's no driver faults, it opens and plays all the audio programs and youtube videos like always, I made sure I've selected the right default playback device but I cannot get it to make a sound anymore. The only way to get anything out of it is to plug in USB headphones which work like a charm. It really seems as if I have a mute button pressed somewhere and the sound doesn't get through.
Now I'm not new to hardware/software issues so I have tried absolutely everything that the first 20 replies here are going to suggest. I've checked the drivers which seemed to be fine, than deleted the drivers completely, rebooted and let the PC update them automatically, after no success deleted them again from device manager, manually got the realtek drivers which always do the trick - still no luck, made sure I've selected the right default playpack device, checked the jack port, checked the cable itself, tested the existing speakers, tried plugging in a different speaker...
I'm running out of ideas.
I'm suspecting the Creative drivers deleted a certain .dll or something that's preventing the windows from getting the sound through, but it's all a guess and a bit beyond my knowledge.
I'm running Windows 8.1 64x.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Alex
I recently installed Sound Blaster Audigy sound card. It worked for a brief period but then turned out to be to glitchy (was difficult to install and stopped working a couple of times). No problem. I uninstalled the Creative Technology drivers, removed the sound card itself and wanted to proceed back to using my old integrated sound card.
Nope.
For some unexplicable reason, my PC decided that it will not play any sounds any more.
The little green bar indicates it's receiving sound, there's no driver faults, it opens and plays all the audio programs and youtube videos like always, I made sure I've selected the right default playback device but I cannot get it to make a sound anymore. The only way to get anything out of it is to plug in USB headphones which work like a charm. It really seems as if I have a mute button pressed somewhere and the sound doesn't get through.
Now I'm not new to hardware/software issues so I have tried absolutely everything that the first 20 replies here are going to suggest. I've checked the drivers which seemed to be fine, than deleted the drivers completely, rebooted and let the PC update them automatically, after no success deleted them again from device manager, manually got the realtek drivers which always do the trick - still no luck, made sure I've selected the right default playpack device, checked the jack port, checked the cable itself, tested the existing speakers, tried plugging in a different speaker...
I'm running out of ideas.
I'm suspecting the Creative drivers deleted a certain .dll or something that's preventing the windows from getting the sound through, but it's all a guess and a bit beyond my knowledge.
I'm running Windows 8.1 64x.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Alex
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