sound card

I tossed my HP and scavenged the Geforce 8500GT (512 MB RAM with HDMI out) and a Creative Labs 7.1 channel sound card with optical ins and outs. I put these components in a cheap E-Machine which had an onboard Geforce 6100 nForce 405 128 MB adapter.. Upon restart, Windows didn't identify...

I have been trying to install an incredibly important program called NovaNet which I use for my classes. If I can't install this, then I can't do my classwork and get my credit. The program is certified to run on XP and Vista, so I figured that if it can run on Vista then it can run on 7. It...

Hi Guys! Im brand new to the forum, but have been a long time reader. Heres the story.. I installed W7 x64 ultimate OEM on my system just after it was released. I was running my Z5500 speakers via my SB fatality champion platinum sound card's coax output. The other day I was bored and...

Hi, I am having a problem with my sound card that is getting to me... the problem is after leaving the computer for a while without playing any music i cannot start playing until i restart the laptop... I have tried to restart windows audio services to see if it gets working but it fails and...

hello everyone..... im new to the forum and not much of a computer guy but maybe someone on here can help point me in the right steps.. after being ripped off from a few computer places im now going to try to fix my computer issues on my own. here is what in getting myself into. im going...

I have a X-Fi Platinum Fatality upgraded to W7 64bit from XP Pro and now I don't have a recording device, everything else works just fine I used to be able to click and record but since installing W7 there's no wave device or input to record, I don't want to use a microphone to record I should...

I have read about this happening a few times but none of the threads seem to have helped. I have an HP m7170n desktop and I installed Win 7 32-bit. When I run device manager on the PC it shows two errors under other devices, one "ethernet controller" and the other "multimedia video...

Here's my setup: Video Card EVGA nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ Creative X-Fi Extreme Fatal1ty Pro Series ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Intel Core 2 Quad 1TB w/ multiple partitions Other JBODs for storage 4GBs or RAM Win 7 pro 64-bit Previous OS: Win XP pro 32-bit 1. I did a clean install from XP 32 to W7 64 on...

I just installled windows 7 Everything worked fine , except my sound card ; Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit In fact there are drivers in creative's site,that i downloaded and installed This sound card is connected to my Sony amplifier through spdif In WinXP everything worked like a charm ; all...

Ok I am getting really irritated with windows 7 now it just randomly freezes all the time. It works in safe mode i'm pretty sure. I thought this may be due to the resolution, maybe because my graphics card is incompatible, but i tried starting up with a low reolution in normal mode and again...

As the title states, the built-in mic on my Toshiba Satellite P305-S89151 Laptop does not work after upgrading to Windows 7 today. I did a Google search and saw that somene else with a TOshiba laptop was hving the same problems that I am, which brought me to here. Someone responded to his thread...

Ok so I'm totally stuck as to what to do next and wondered if anyone has any ideas that might help. I've installed Windows 7 on my Acer 6920G laptop and since installing on Tuesday have been trying to fix this problem. I can play audio normally through the laptop but if I plug in headphones then...

Have a Gateway PC (poor me!!) with what seems to be an OEM Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio card. Have installed Win7 64 bit Home Premium. Creative drivers do not recognize the card. Win7 does not recognize the card. Gateway do not care. Any ideas? Other than that the install from Vista went like a dream.

Okay this is the only problem I am having with windows 7, I run teamspeak and under playback levels my line-in is unmuted and I can hear myself. Here it is fine: Link Removed and when I run teamspeak it unmutes itself. Then If I click on it to mute again, no one on teamspeak can hear...

Hi! I have a soundblaster sound card - it is a Live! 5.1 surround sound card and I cannot find the right driver for it anywhere for use within windows 7 64bit. The vendor id : 1102 device id: 0002 I have tried the driver I thought I had used with my old 32bit windows but it doesnt work. Can...

Does anyone have any drivers that will work for this on Windows 7 64bit? PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_7002&SUBSYS_00201102 I've been using this same sound card for years without issue. I had to hold onto the original CD because for whatever reason no SB Live drivers I find online can detect that I have an...

Hi all - did a lot of research on this and have seen similar threads but no real solution. I have a Dell dimension 5150 with a junky sigmatel onboard card, Since migrating from vista - im only getting sound through 2 speakers, have lost 5.1 surround. Strange thing is if i go and test the device...

Hey everyone I have fairly recently built myself a computer using the gigabyte GA EP43 DS3L motherboard. On the manufacturers website it says that this motherboard is Windows 7 ready and that it has an integrated realtek HD audio sound card. When I first set up the computer with windows 7...

I use an HTO Striker 7.1 soundcard.. downloaded their official x64 W7 drivers.. Upon them being installed, I can suddenly no longer run a program without right clicking and running as an administrator. What could be the problem?

I recently installed Windows 7 onto a secound, empty hard drive, at the time of installation and untill after the first few handfuls of boots (I unattached the sata drive with my other OS, Vista, internally before hand). Direcetly after installing Win7 I experianced problems with "Skype" where...