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[whatthefunk]

I recently installed windows xp and sine i did that, my speakers dont work. how can i correct this?? thanks

[muggie2dammit]

Possible problem - the audio drivers for your sound card or chip haven't been installed properly.

Check that.

Muggie2

[kprrok]

Do you have a separate sound card? or is it onboard? If separate, you probably just need to re-install the drivers. Of course, if it's onboard, you might have to do the same thing.

KPRROK

[keninseoul]

[whatthefunk]

okay, heres the second problem. i have no driver discs for my computer. they got lost somewhere last time i moved. is there any place i can download them from
by the way, i have a crappy gateway laptop and have no idea what kind of components i have in it. how can i find out? just so you all know, im a computer idiot....i have no idea how to do anything other than type and click.

[wylde]

try here

[Dalton]

Try these 3 suggestions:

1)
Open "Control Panel"
Select "Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices"
Select "Sounds and Audio Devices"
The "Audio" tab.

Default Device for sound playback and the rest should be your audio card. If not them select it.

BTW XP has drivers for almost everything. That's what made it better than ME and 95. (one thing anyway).

2)
You can also right click on My Computer, select Properties (at the bottom) Select the Hardware tab the Device Manager.

Now you can look at Sound,video and game controllers. A yellow ! (exclamation mark) means there is a problem. Right click on the thing with the yello ! and select update driver.

3)
Going to the Windows update site should give you any device driver updates you need.

Lastly you need to visit the site that makes your audio card and update the drivers. I have a sound card on one of my PC's that came with a cheap Mother Board. I can't get it working at all so I put in a cheap Sound Blaster card. No problems now.