audio problems

it just happened out of nowhere. my sound was working fine last night, then this morning I played a video and there was no sound. I clicked the volume icon in the task bar to see if I could hear the 'ping' when you adjust volume but it repeatedly froze and crashed (it's still doing this now...

I dont think that there is anything wrong with my media player but when I organize and update the album art info it frequently renames some of my songs. This is getting very annoying and I am wondering if there is any way that I can stop it from happening. There are times where I have to...

I am trying to play BioShock Retail on my system. It installs fine, runs DX10 style, and all is dandy. The problem is when I try to play the game, there is no sound. Sound works fine on the videos and intro, just not when you get in the game. Dose any one have any ideas?

Ok so here is my problem, my sound hasn't been working for a few weeks now. If if try to play a test tone from the control panel i get a message that says "failed to play test tone." However when i first turn on my laptop it plays the startup sound so i know it isn't a hardware issue. Here are...

So that's the basic version of my problem, here's how it happened. I was modding Morrowind and I added one too many which broke it, so I uninstalled it, thinking i could just re-install it. But then it didnt work, so i used uniblue registry booster to clean my system registry, and after that no...

On my gaming Rig I have a problem with Realtek HD Audio, I have narrowed it down to the Cold Cathodes, Everytime the Cold Cathodes are running the Realtek HD Audio manager come up saying I have pluged a device into the Audio Jack (not like it does it once, it come up like 56 thousand times)...

Sound problems When I first put together the computer in question I used the on-board sound with no problems for many months. It is my work computer and is used for video and sound editing. I needed to get a better sound solution as the on-board sound was inadequate. I first bought a Asus...

Hello Win7forums. I recently realized that my Dell Studio 1555 (Win7 Home Prem x64) doesn't have any sound. I checked for details in Reliability Monitor, and apparently AUDIODG.EXE doesn't work and silently crashes 300-600 times a day. I've tried sfc /scannow and System Restore and none work. I...

Hello forum! new member here. To start off, I bought this computer in july of 2009 with VISTA installed, I never received any problems besides the blue moon crash that every computer gets. After installing Windows 7 I started crashing constantly, it never said it was a BSOD usually just a...

Okay, I've got a problem here. How on earth is it possible, that I have by accident been able to change my startup sound into something horrible? I read a little about changing the startup sound, and it sounded VERY complicated to a simpleton like me, but... In any case, my startup sound is...

I've had some old Super8 home movies digitalized and have been editing them with Windows Live Movie Maker. I've successfully added music to some of the clips, and want to add voice narration at several places. I've used Sound Recorder in Windows7 to make my narration, but I can't get very much...

Recently i puted windows 7 at my pc but my realtec sound driver isnt working cause its old enough..Windows downloaded automatically a newer version of realtec but nothing happened.. if i have to give more details about my pc just let me know.. thanks

Sound card is Sound Blaster X-Fi, model number stamped on card is SB0460. Machine is Dell Precision 380 w/ Intel Premium D 920, 2.80GHz. 4GB RAM OS upgraded from XP to W7. No sound at all. Control Panel / device manager / sound, video & game controllers shows Creative SB X-Fi (This device is...

OS: Win7 Ultimate problem: local media files are loaded by player (VLC, WMP, Winamp, Quicktime) but not played. (during first 2 minutes the computer is on, the file will play for 1-3 seconds then stop) streamed media displays video, but no audio. (tried...

I turned my laptop on today and every time I try to stream a video online, whether it be from megavideo, bbc iplayer, youtube etc causes the browser window to crash immediately. I then tried to play a film in windows media player - it wont open and immediately crashes. The same film will play in...

I'm at my wit's end here. Sometimes the computer will randomly enter a condition where almost EVERYTHING breaks down simultaneously. Any Shockwave applications on my browser crash, iTunes crashes, sound stops playing, my gaming programs like Steam crash, and Freecell crashes too. On the other...

I'm going on 2 months now, pulling my hair out at this point with an issue(s) I cannot seem to solve. here's my symptoms, my specs, my steps so far to troubleshoot. Any help is appreciated. Symptoms: My video is choppy, jumpy or fast playing in QuickTime, and Media player freezes or won't play...

Hi, upgraded from xp to win 7. (custom install) and now have no sound on laptop. System shows driver installed and working properly but obviously its not. Any help. Laptop is a Samsung NP-Q35. Thanks.

I'm having a problem with my Gateway4538 computer when i first got it was running on Windows XP. Then i reformatted 2 years later and installed Windows Vista now when i tried installing SoundMAX(Sound driver only driver this computer can use) i get a message saying SoundMAX doesn't support this...

Hi all, first time posting here and I'm hoping some of the more technically minded individuals here can help me identify the root cause of my problem. Not sure if this is in the right section please move this thread if it's in the wrong subforum. Right, the problem is that I can't seem to get...