When I started up my computer for the second time today (I did a boot time defrag the last time) there was no audio. Thinking the obvious, I ran over to my sound control to check if volume was up. Lo and behold, it was at max. Under the X-Fi sound panel, I had the volume on max.
I was getting paranoid at this point and decided to open up winamp and play some songs. I started turning up the volume on my speakers and I could only start hearing it when the volume was nearly maxed out and I was getting tons of static. It wasn't even loud, it was such a whisper I had trouble hearing it with my speakers held to my ear. Thinking this was the speakers, I grabbed my pair of headphones and plugged them in the back (I don't have a useable Front panel at the moment) I had the same exact result, I could only hear the music when I switched it to high power mode. Even then it was quieter then when on my desktop speakers.
I'm going to go try out my onboard audio to see if that works. I haven't tried fooling around with the drivers out of fear I might do something bad. I've done NOTHING since this started happening, I didn't install any drivers, software, anything.
For the record, I installed the drivers that came on disc with my X-Fi. Is there updated drivers available that should fix this?
Edit: Yep, just as I feared. It's the X-Fi... I plugged it into my Onboard audio just now and the volume was perfectly normal. Anyone know the cause of this?
List of Fixes - If it aint here, post it.
- Checked the volume in Creative's console, the Windows volume control in my tray bar, and in the Control Panel under "Audio and Sound devices"
- Made sure default device was the X-Fi
- Made sure the speakers was plugged in the right spot
- Made sure the speakers weren't faulty (I tested with a pair of head phones and on my iPod)
- Made sure I had the latest drivers
- Did the diagnostic, didn't help
- Did a system restore that made things worse
- Switched the PCI slot the sound card was in
- Tried onboard audio and found the audio there worked fine (I don't want onboard audio and a $100 paper weight though)
- Made sure onboard audio was uninstalled and disabled
- Posted on the creative labs forums and got no replies
- Safe Mode doesn't even recognize the Sound card
I was getting paranoid at this point and decided to open up winamp and play some songs. I started turning up the volume on my speakers and I could only start hearing it when the volume was nearly maxed out and I was getting tons of static. It wasn't even loud, it was such a whisper I had trouble hearing it with my speakers held to my ear. Thinking this was the speakers, I grabbed my pair of headphones and plugged them in the back (I don't have a useable Front panel at the moment) I had the same exact result, I could only hear the music when I switched it to high power mode. Even then it was quieter then when on my desktop speakers.
I'm going to go try out my onboard audio to see if that works. I haven't tried fooling around with the drivers out of fear I might do something bad. I've done NOTHING since this started happening, I didn't install any drivers, software, anything.
For the record, I installed the drivers that came on disc with my X-Fi. Is there updated drivers available that should fix this?
Edit: Yep, just as I feared. It's the X-Fi... I plugged it into my Onboard audio just now and the volume was perfectly normal. Anyone know the cause of this?
List of Fixes - If it aint here, post it.
- Checked the volume in Creative's console, the Windows volume control in my tray bar, and in the Control Panel under "Audio and Sound devices"
- Made sure default device was the X-Fi
- Made sure the speakers was plugged in the right spot
- Made sure the speakers weren't faulty (I tested with a pair of head phones and on my iPod)
- Made sure I had the latest drivers
- Did the diagnostic, didn't help
- Did a system restore that made things worse
- Switched the PCI slot the sound card was in
- Tried onboard audio and found the audio there worked fine (I don't want onboard audio and a $100 paper weight though)
- Made sure onboard audio was uninstalled and disabled
- Posted on the creative labs forums and got no replies
- Safe Mode doesn't even recognize the Sound card