Power to Sound Card

I have an 8140 HP,96 RAM,98 SE. The power supply quit, and when replaced, the new one did not have an electrical supply line to the sound card,thus no sound. Do I need to replace sound card or is there a way to connect the old one. I am very green so please have patience with my ignorance of computers. I had the power supply replaced by an individual and he was going to come back and put another sound card in for me but I haven't heard from him since
Thanks Robertk

 

Is this a standard sound card? It is my experience that many of the standard low and mid-level sound cards draw their power from the mainboard of the computer, thus do not need to draw directly from the power supply. At least it is that way with the computers I have assembled. Do you have the "sound" icon in your system tray in Windows (lower right corner - sort of looks like a megaphone)?

 

I think you may be confusing the Sound Card with something else? Maybe confusing your wires? Typically sound cards do not have an external power supply wire. What kind of SC are we talking about? What did this connection look like? What kind of computer? Is your SC ISA/PCI/other?

 

Thanks for the feed back. I do not know what kind of SC I have. As I said I am very green. I do have the sound icon on task bar. The connection is 3 wires from the PS and has a small plug on end. This is a HP. Sorry I can't give any more info. I guess I'll just take in to some one that knows. I thought maybe one of you fellas might be able to help me. Thanks a lot. Robertk

 

HPs use a strange sound card setup. The card will work without that power cord, but it won't be as strong. I don't know why they do that.

 

Hmm, never heard of that. Makes sense though, if you need more power to push speakers and such, why go through the board to get it?

I would say if it's working, don't worry about it. Why pay someone $50+ to make it work for you? Besides, if you're really worried about it, you could probably splice that wire into your new power supply. However, I don't know anything about that SC or PS, so don't take my word for it. It may actually use a special power output from the old PS that is just not available on your new PS.

Stick around, I'm sure someone here will know more about that connection.