Well...

[Rizz768]

Pretty stupid story.

I bought a LCD monitor today, plugged it in, installed the drivers, etc. Then all of a sudden after a quick reboot my sound stops working, along with both my CD-rom drives (when I try to play a game it says theres no cd in the drive for an example) and if I try listening to music it gives me the following error " Bad DirectSound driver. Please install proper drivers or select anothe device in configuration. Error Code 88780078 " I didn't bother doing this yet, because I simply want to know what the hell happened, did I get a virus?, did my motherboard go stupid on me? anyone know whats wrong? I secured all wires, tried rebooting, I opened up my sound device options, and it's not even detecting that I have speakers plugged in, or a microphone, if I go to my device managers, the following have a "!" inside a yellow circle over the icons

- CD-ROM
- DVD-ROM
- Webcam
- Realtek AC'97 Audio
- Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator

Please help me, I'm losing hope here.

 

[ikjadoon]

So it was working good before the LCD drivers? Tried a System Restore?

~Ibrahim~

 

[Rizz768]

Just tried a system restore, no luck. I was thinking of reinstalling the drivers, I have most of them downloaded, can't seem to find the plug and play driver, however.

 

[Rizz768]

Reinstalled my sound driver, rebooted, and sound still doesn't work. :roll:

 

[Heyyou27]

You actually install drivers for your monitor?

 

[uber_g]

You actually install drivers for your monitor?

thats what i was thinking

 

[ikjadoon]

I've had some drivers, though they weren't drivers per se. More like Desktop Optimization, like color saturation and that kind of stuff. Odd how it would cause such problems..

Well, have you tried Safe Mode? Ran any Virus scans or anti-spyware stuff?

~Ibrahim~

 

[Rizz768]

It's all just pathetic, It happened before I popped the monitor cd into the CD-ROM, I turned off my computer, plugged in the new monitor, turned my computer back on and this happened, so I actually didn't even get to install the drivers (sorry for the typo in my first post), and no it wasn't an improper shutdown.

I don't think safe mode will do anything, it seems like my only option here is to format and well... I'm so damn tired of formatting. So so tired. Knowing the fact that I can't burn backup dvd's with data since my ROM drives don't work makes me not want to even attempt it, besides, how can I even format if my CD-ROM drives don't work?

 

[ikjadoon]

I know exactly what you are going through. The most annoying sh!t in the world. You did nothing wrong and everything just decides to break at the same time.

Well, try using Safe Mode. Do you get sound, etc.?

Hold on from the format. They sound like a cure-all, but can cause more headaches than fixing them.

~Ibrahim~

 

[Rizz768]

Safe mode still has no sound or cd-rom interaction.

 

[AwsmGy]

Before you do a reformat, try a windows repair. But before you even do that try plugging your old monitor back in and uninstalling the monitor drivers for the LCD, see if that fixes it for some reason. If it does, just don't install the drivers for the LCD.

 

[Rizz768]

To answer a few of the posts, I didn't install any LCD drivers, I didn't get a chance to, and I've already plugged my old monitor back in, the same problem occurs. I can't format either, my recovery cd's don't load in the dead cd-rom drives.

 

[ikjadoon]

OK, in safe mode, have you tried to install the drivers?

~Ibrahim~

 

[celewign]

Can you try a system restore but restore to a point farther back?
-cm

 

[randomcow]

besides, how can I even format if my CD-ROM drives don't work?

Are you saying you can't even boot from CD??