Sound Card problem?

Deviqa · January 29th, 2008

My husband is having issues with his computer. He's too proud to come here and ask but here's the symptoms.

He has a SoundBlaster Live Sound Card...bought a couple months ago.

He was playing EQ2 and running either Ventrilo or Windows Media Player and Ventrilo or media player will crash. He's run the diagnostics on his card and it should that DirectSound failed but he's got the latest Direct X.

He's reformated, he's tried uninstalling and removing his SoundBlaster Card and using the onboard sound and it happens there too.

He's running XP has DirectX 9, latest drivers for everything. Game isn't crashing.

I don't know what other info to give you so if you have questions, please ask away and I'll do my best to pry the answers out of him.

oldman_gamer · January 29th, 2008

I had a similar problem with vista.I stumbled upon this fix,and have no clue why it had changed...but nonetheless it is fixed.I right clicked on the speaker on the bottom right of the desktop.Clicked on playback devices and had to change where the sound came from.I had to get a green check mark by the speakers.Somehow,there was a green check by digital output device and I had no sound.I'm sure others with your same OS can further help you.Tell the hubby he is more than welcome to stop on by...we dont bite. There's alot of good people here and they are always willing to help.And thank you for stopping by as well!

Have him try this too.
How to troubleshoot sound problems in Windows XP

January 29th, 2008	#1
Deviqa Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 16	Sound Card problem? My husband is having issues with his computer. He's too proud to come here and ask but here's the symptoms. He has a SoundBlaster Live Sound Card...bought a couple months ago. He was playing EQ2 and running either Ventrilo or Windows Media Player and Ventrilo or media player will crash. He's run the diagnostics on his card and it should that DirectSound failed but he's got the latest Direct X. He's reformated, he's tried uninstalling and removing his SoundBlaster Card and using the onboard sound and it happens there too. He's running XP has DirectX 9, latest drivers for everything. Game isn't crashing. I don't know what other info to give you so if you have questions, please ask away and I'll do my best to pry the answers out of him. Deviqa CPU: I don't remember but it's dual core Board: shrug it's a DELL Memory: DDR2 2 gig (4 x 256) Video Card: GeForce 7600 PCIx HDD: 1x80Gb Maxtor and 1x250Gb Western Digital Case: DELL Power Supply: shrug Cooling:shrug Operating System: WinXP Home

January 29th, 2008	#2
oldman_gamer Nehalem Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Northeast Pennsyltucky Posts: 1,356 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Sound Card problem? I had a similar problem with vista.I stumbled upon this fix,and have no clue why it had changed...but nonetheless it is fixed.I right clicked on the speaker on the bottom right of the desktop.Clicked on playback devices and had to change where the sound came from.I had to get a green check mark by the speakers.Somehow,there was a green check by digital output device and I had no sound.I'm sure others with your same OS can further help you.Tell the hubby he is more than welcome to stop on by...we dont bite. There's alot of good people here and they are always willing to help.And thank you for stopping by as well! Have him try this too. How to troubleshoot sound problems in Windows XP Last edited by oldman_gamer; January 29th, 2008 at 17:16.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Possible sound card failure?	wtcnbrwndo4u	Troubleshooting	12	January 15th, 2008 12:38
I found a sound card.	RepliCarter	General Computing	10	November 3rd, 2007 06:52
Chaintech AV-710 PCI Sound Card 7.1	fps justin	Peripherals	8	December 10th, 2006 19:31
Sound Card Addition	deantn	Troubleshooting	11	December 9th, 2006 01:56
a cheap but good sound card?	fps justin	Peripherals	8	May 8th, 2006 11:08