No Sound
#1
02-06-09, 12:54 PM
No Sound
As you may know from my other post I have been experiencing problems with Blue Screen and Registry. So I decided on a full restore. Put the cd in and did the onscreen things it said. After restarting it after restore I had no sound, no modem and no dvd/cd drive. This started Monday this week. I have since got everything working but the sound.
Device manager says everything is working but I still have no sound. I tried the speakers on another machine and they work fine. I did everything troubleshooting said. Removed and reinstalled the Realtek High Definition Audio several times. Tried updating the driver but no help. Even went to Intel and got a download from them for my motherboard for the audio but the computer says it was corrupt. It says that with every Realtek download I try. I have tried from eMachines, Gateway, Realtek, Intel and several other places. Even downloaded Driver Detective and they say everything is good to go. But I still have no sound. When I restarted the last 4 times I get a message that the registry had to be recovered from another source but it was sucessfull in loading it.
It is a eMachine model T3504 desktop running Windows XP. It will be 3 year old in September. I have an extended warrenty from Best Buy where I bought it but software is not included in the warrenty. And I am sure they will say this is software related. eMachines will only help if I call them at $3 a minute because it is out of warrenty.
I have thought about installing the Windows XP full version I purchased for another machine if I can not find another way to fix this. I am wondering if or how the restore cd that came with the machine can be corrupt. I did a full restore which should have wiped everything and started fresh.
Any ideas on how I can get my sound back??
Device manager says everything is working but I still have no sound. I tried the speakers on another machine and they work fine. I did everything troubleshooting said. Removed and reinstalled the Realtek High Definition Audio several times. Tried updating the driver but no help. Even went to Intel and got a download from them for my motherboard for the audio but the computer says it was corrupt. It says that with every Realtek download I try. I have tried from eMachines, Gateway, Realtek, Intel and several other places. Even downloaded Driver Detective and they say everything is good to go. But I still have no sound. When I restarted the last 4 times I get a message that the registry had to be recovered from another source but it was sucessfull in loading it.
It is a eMachine model T3504 desktop running Windows XP. It will be 3 year old in September. I have an extended warrenty from Best Buy where I bought it but software is not included in the warrenty. And I am sure they will say this is software related. eMachines will only help if I call them at $3 a minute because it is out of warrenty.
I have thought about installing the Windows XP full version I purchased for another machine if I can not find another way to fix this. I am wondering if or how the restore cd that came with the machine can be corrupt. I did a full restore which should have wiped everything and started fresh.
Any ideas on how I can get my sound back??
#2
02-06-09, 12:59 PM
Super Moderator
I would quit messing with the onboard sound. You can get a pretty good sound card anywhere for $15-20. If you have room to install it of course.
It sounds like you have some other problem though. The registry message isn't right.
A full restore was probably a good thing..but did you reformat the drives as well?
I'll let one of the PC guys answer more...but it still seems like you have something lurking on your PC.
It sounds like you have some other problem though. The registry message isn't right.
A full restore was probably a good thing..but did you reformat the drives as well?
I'll let one of the PC guys answer more...but it still seems like you have something lurking on your PC.
#3
02-06-09, 03:41 PM
Is a full restore from the cd not reformatting the drive? I did not hold over any files as suggested by the 2nd choice I had. The 1st choice said full removal and restore. Thought that meant the same as reformatting the drive. I only have 1 harddrive.
