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by alldtoys 2 views

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Averatec 3250- Although Device Manager shows no problem with the Sound card or drivers (no yellow or red), I get absolutely no sound out of my laptop speakers.? Ditto when using any one of several headphone sets.? I ran the diagnostic within the windows sound settings, and it says everything is fine.? The sound check, when using a microphone headset, appears to function correctly with the gauge properly registering movement in both the mic and speaker mode.? But nothing comes out!? Nothing in the windows audio settings is muted.? Ditto in the Real Player settings (I saw that as a possible solution on another site.?) the volume wheel is in the max volume position. I uninstalled and re-installed the Via AC'97 sound card using the original device drivers. I am running Win XP Sp2. (didn't work w/ SP1, either) 1 GB ram. There are no auto updates from Windows installed. I'm thinking this is a windows rather than a hardware issue. but not sure either way. Does anyone also know of an inexpensive external sound card option, like a pcmcia or usb?Any suggestions or solutions?

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by oh smeg

But before going that far try a Live Linux and run it off the CD. If you have sound then you have a Software Issue but if you have no sound you know that you have a Hardware issue.

You can download any of the Live Linux's from this site to test with though I would personally recommend Knoppix

http://tinyurl.com/23nmq

If you want something a bit faster or you have a slow Net Connection you can go to a Newsagent and buy a Linux Mag with a Live Linux as a Cover CD but you'll pay for this at least the cost of the Mag.

Live Linux doesn't affect any installed Item on a computer unless you chose to install it. These versions of the Different Linux's run off the CD/DVD and should work all Hardware well at least as far as you are concerned here as the AC 97 is a fairly standard Sound System.

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by tintoman

on this problem, (and forgive me if you already tried this but you didn't say so)
If you have any voice messaging software like Skype or whatever, or voice recording software or even if you have been using windows movie maker it is quite possible that any of those have changed the default sound device settings.
Actually windows media player can do it too.
If you use, or have used a bluetooth device with audio gateway that can do it too.
so go to the control panel and click on the speaker icon and then the hardware tab and make sure your playback default device is your computer sound card, and check the settings of any other programmes to make sure they are only using windows default sound devices

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