My soundcard died!

[lucyd]

Hi! I have a problem with my sound... it used to work fine then suddenly it stopped working. It says there is no audio/ sound device installed. Does this mean my sound card is broken or has managed to uninstall itself? My details are: (I'm probs giving way more than you need but I wasn't sure!)

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name LUCY
System Manufacturer Elitegroup Co.
System Model ECS G553
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1500 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 080010, 5/12/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name LUCY\excel
Time Zone New Zealand Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 181.54 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.20 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

If you could help at all I would be very grateful! Thanks

 

[nickc]

it would be good if u could give us what sound card u have, or if the sound card is integrated what mb is in the computer. but I am going to say reinstall the drivers.

 

[BlameCanada]

I agree with the above.
Look in Device manager,and unistall any sound devices,if there.

then,If it`s onboard sound just restart the computer,or if you have a
driver cd,use that.

Also check sound card hasn`t worked loose,if you have external card.