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by junky221

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I have a P4 PC with GigaByte i845 chipset w/ built-in sound mainboard. I installed Windows 2000 and installed all the drivers. Everything seems fine and I can also see the "speaker" icon on lower-right corner of taskbar, which means that the sound drivers are installed properly. But the problem is that I can not hear any sound from the speakers. The .wav, .mp3, .mid and others type of files do not give any sound to speaker however I can play and listen to the Audio CDs.
What could the problem be?
For time being I disbled the built-in sound and installed add-on sound card, it works fine with all types of sound files and multimedia applications.

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by thechas

In my personal opinion, unless you need the slot the sound card is in for something else, stick with the plug-in sound card.

Plug-in sound cards tend to have better sound, and use less system resources than on-board sound.

As to the problems with the on-board sound;

1. Mixer settings may have been to low on the wav and midi channels.

2. I have seen software wavetable and midi applications disrupt on-board sound.

3. Even though you had the volume control icon, there may have been a problem with the sound driver or codec software that was preventing proper operation with wav and midi sounds.

Unless you are using Windows Media player to play your CDs, the sound goes through the CD audio cable, and straight to the sound chip.
While the other sound events go through the software codec and drivers.

Chas

by dmiles

Check the Volume to make sure that it"s not muted

Make sure that speakers are connected to sound card correctly,then open mutimedia properties and check also for muted sound,your slider may have the volume turned down or off

Check the Device Manager to make sure their are no conflicts or exclamation marks that may be causing a problem

by dpalsen

Make certain you have the right set of drivers installed. My last motherboard came with about four separate driver sets on the same CD, and I had to kind of guess and check on which one was the right one, because all four showed good in device mgr,but only one actually gave me sound.

by sales

onboard sound cards EAT-UP CPU cycles. You are further agead to keep the add-in sound card to get better performance from your system

if you really want the onboard sound that bad though, you need to go to the motherboards homepage and get the latest BIOS and sound drivers for YOUR OS. i.e. Windows XP, Windows 2000 etc.

by angler

I'm with dpalson. When I replaced the hard drive in my Compaq, I lost system sound yet was able to listen to CDs. I went to my soundcard's web site & downloaded 3 different drivers that were all supposed to work with it, however only one did!

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