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re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work?
Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 7:03 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by maria
(10 messages posted)
Could you just tell me what BIOS is or are, and what do they do. What are they for.
Maybe this will help me. Maria
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:24 am, mpruddy wrote:
>Beginning 4 days ago my sound suddenly disappeared. I spent a lot of time installing
>and uninstalling sound cards changing bios settings and trying myriads of "fixes"
>from off the internet by people trying to help. The symptom was (other than no sound,
>of course) the "Sounds and Audio Devices" window from the control panel had the
"Volume",
>"Audio", and "Voice" Tabs greyed out with "No Playback Devices" "No Media Devices"
>etc. showing in the greyed out dropdowns, indicating no sound system installed.
Naturally
>a "indescriminate clicker" such as myself had no idea when it happened since I don't
>use sound that often. As I was sitting there contemplating a complete new install
>of Windows Xp, I decided to give it one more shot and "Voilá" the sound returned.
>Since I was unable to find this information by Google Search I decided to post it
>here in hopes the next fellow can find it. I am almost sure there would be similar
>fixes for Win98 etc.
>Here's the Drill:
>GO TO CONTROL PANEL (in Xp there are two views: complicated and simple referred
to
>by Microsoft as Category and Classic)
>In "Classic" View: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management >
click
>plus on > Services and Applications > Services > scroll to AudioSrv > if it is disabled
>right click on it and click > Properties > change Startup type: window drop down
>to > "Automatic" and then click apply. Close out and Reboot and the sound will return
>assuming you have installed your sound card drivers correctly (if not reinstall
them)
>
>"Category" view: Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools
>> Computer Management > click plus on > Services and Applications > Services > scroll
>to AudioSrv > if it is disabled right click on it and click > Properties > change
>Startup type: window drop down to "Automatic" and then click apply. Close out and
>Reboot and the sound will return assuming you have installed your sound card drivers
>correctly (if not reinstall them)
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