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Hi
Today I was getting a little audio distortion in a new game I'm trying out.
So I decided to update the drivers for my Creative SB Recon3D PCIe sound card.
The problem was probably with the game not the drivers but I figured what the heck I might as well keep things up to date.
I downloaded the drives from the Creative web site and installed them.
The end result it that my sound doesn't work.
I started by checking for some kind of problem in the sound windows and in Device
Manager I thought I'd roll back the driver, but there was no option to roll it back.
I created a restore point before I did the update so the next thing I did was go back to the old restore point.
That restored some very faint sound and the icon on the taskbar show that the sound is working, no red not well symbol.
I then dug out the disk that came with the SB card and deleted the old drives and uninstalled the SB card in Device Manager and rebooted.
No change, still a very faint sound.
Nothing shows any errors, Device Manager shows that both the SB card and nVidia High Definition Audio it working normally.
The speakers are on and the volume control on the speakers still controls the sound level on the internal speaker?
Turn it up and the internal speaker gets louder but not very much but if you turn it down you can't hear the internal speaker at all.
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All of the entries under Audio Inputs and Outputs say that everything is working OK as well.
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That's when I realised that the sound was coming from the speaker in the computer and not the external speakers. That's why it is weak and requires full volume to hear anything.
I looked at the sounds settings panel, and it shows the Speakers are the default device.
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The microphone works, at least the bar move up and down when I talk.
So the problem seems to be that Windows is sending the sound to the internal speaker instead of the external speakers through the SB card.
It appears that everything is working, but the sound device selected someplace, is the internal speaker.
As you can see in the image above the SB card is set as the default device.
Anyone have any idea how I can get it to use the speakers?
Any help appreciated.
Mike
Today I was getting a little audio distortion in a new game I'm trying out.
So I decided to update the drivers for my Creative SB Recon3D PCIe sound card.
The problem was probably with the game not the drivers but I figured what the heck I might as well keep things up to date.
I downloaded the drives from the Creative web site and installed them.
The end result it that my sound doesn't work.
I started by checking for some kind of problem in the sound windows and in Device
Manager I thought I'd roll back the driver, but there was no option to roll it back.
I created a restore point before I did the update so the next thing I did was go back to the old restore point.
That restored some very faint sound and the icon on the taskbar show that the sound is working, no red not well symbol.
I then dug out the disk that came with the SB card and deleted the old drives and uninstalled the SB card in Device Manager and rebooted.
No change, still a very faint sound.
Nothing shows any errors, Device Manager shows that both the SB card and nVidia High Definition Audio it working normally.
The speakers are on and the volume control on the speakers still controls the sound level on the internal speaker?
Turn it up and the internal speaker gets louder but not very much but if you turn it down you can't hear the internal speaker at all.
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All of the entries under Audio Inputs and Outputs say that everything is working OK as well.
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That's when I realised that the sound was coming from the speaker in the computer and not the external speakers. That's why it is weak and requires full volume to hear anything.
I looked at the sounds settings panel, and it shows the Speakers are the default device.
Link Removed
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The microphone works, at least the bar move up and down when I talk.
So the problem seems to be that Windows is sending the sound to the internal speaker instead of the external speakers through the SB card.
It appears that everything is working, but the sound device selected someplace, is the internal speaker.
As you can see in the image above the SB card is set as the default device.
Anyone have any idea how I can get it to use the speakers?
Any help appreciated.
Mike
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