sound issues

Hello! since i got windows 8 on my machine whenever i have connected another harddrive in the system the short freezes and hangups starts and is distorting sound and visuals of the operative system. My computer specs are: PSU 600 W 8 GB DDR3 RAM 1600 Mhz Intel Core i5 2500 (non K) 3.30 Ghz AMD...

Hello, I have a Toshiba Laptop c660 with windows 8 professional installed. I can`t make the jack for headphones to work. The jack is not broken because it works on Ubuntu. I installed the driver for my soundboard. Didn`t worked. I unistalled it and i let windows chose the best option for me...

My old computers motherboard literally got roasted due to a faulty fan that wasn't working and laziness on my part for not maintaining it. So I got a new computer aaaaand it doesn't work. Story of my freaking life. What happens is whenever I play a game around 30 seconds to a minute it will...

I'm unable to use my Logitech microphone at all. I have Realtek sound drivers and windows says it's updated to the latest already, I've also played around with the settings a bit too, increasing boost levels, etc. etc. the headset I'm able to use for windows xp though! not windows 7. when i go...

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Hi, I have win7 prof 64bit installed. Motherboard Name: Asus P8H67 CPU Sockel: LGA1155 Audio: Realtek ALC887 nVIDIA HDMI/DP (4 times) (In device manager: High Definition Audio Device (2x) NVIDIA High Definition Audio...

On the 23rd (three days ago) my sound was working fine, but saturday my sound stopped working and my speaker icon had a red dot with a white 'X' in it and says "No Audio Output Device Installed". I have gone into my device manager and the 'Audio, Video and Game Controllers' is missing. I have...

Hi, about 2 days ago i noticed an audio bug. When i was on my favorite VOIP service (mumble) I noticed all my friends seemed quiet. When I went to play league of legends the in game effects were blaring, and it made it even more difficult to hear my friends. The weirdest problem was on some...

Hey guys. First of all I apologize if I make some grammatical errors. I'm not a native english speaker... =\ My question is about IE, Google Chrome and other browsers. The sounds and musics playing on the browsers I have installed, stops every time I switch to another application. For...

i have posted this on several different forums, asked several different people irl etc but i still haven't gotten any sound to work. Windows says that i don't have speakers or headphones in when i do and just defaults by trying digital audio (i dont even have anything that can play that.)...

So, I have an issue I'm trying to figure right now. I just recently bought a USB Headset for clearer recording of my voice when talking to others. However, I'm often using two computers: my main Desktop with Windows 7, and my Laptop with Windows Vista. Often, I'll play a game on my Windows 7...

Today I was using my laptop like any other day. I got bored and launched The Sims. It crashed. I couldn't resolve the issue, so i gave up. I decided to play Gmod instead. I got an error. On a forum, it said restarting steam would solve the issue. I exited steam, and it would not reopen. In fact...

I went into control panel and tried to delete a program which would not let me do. The program will run without sound and that is why I'm trying to delete it. So I go into Program files, Program files (x86) and Program Data and delete the program from there because it wouldn't let me re-install...

Hey guys just about a month ago I started getting BSOD about 50% of the time I play games. I can tell when it's about to happen, in the game the sound will start crackling, and the graphics start stuttering, then usually 30 seconds to a minute later I get BSOD. I have tabbed out when this is...

I have an AMD 955 computer and its 11/2 years old and havebeen giving be nothing but problems. Internet Explorer does not respond alongwith a lot of other programs about half the time and I have to close it andre-open it. I get error messages all the time. I can’t get sound on just oneprogram...

My audio goes off several times a day when I'm working on the computer. I get a little red X over the speaker icon. When I click on it a screen comes up and corrects the problem, but I get this message: One or more audio service isn't running Fixed Link Removed Both the Windows...

Recently, my computer has not been playing the startup sound, and on a side note. when I go to the welcome screen for longer than 10seconds it has this LOUD HIGH PITCHED NOISE that really annoys me. Will someone please help? :thumbs_up:

Well I've been getting random lockups for quite some time however here is the kicker,it ONLY happens with more than 4GB of RAM installed...anything less than 4GB I am perfectly fine but anything more my computer locks up totally randomly. Random bits of information: Tested all of my RAM sticks...

So, I just figured out how to make a custom logon sound. I thought it be cool to have this: PS1 startup HD - YouTube (Original PS1 startup music, hehe.) I downloaded it as a mp3 then used an online converter to change it to a .wav file, I set the sound as the logon sound and tested it, but it...

Recently I Downloaded a New Game ( Duke Nukem Forever ) in the beginning I noticed that the audio was popping and cracking i googled it and som ppl advised me to use DPC Latency Checker the Latency was getting very high while playing games or watching videos the sound was popping every time i...