RE: no system or other sounds coming from computer

[Adrian Spratt]

Joanne,

 I can't tell from your description if you've gone into sounds and Audio
within the control panel. Perhaps XP Home is different in this way from XP,
which I have. But if you can find sound and Audio or the equivalent in
your control panel, tab and control-tab through the options. Make sure mute
isn't checked there and look for default speaker settings.

I've never needed to plug speakers directly into a soundcard.

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Subject: no system or other sounds coming from computer

We switched to a new set of speakers on my desktop and couldn't get anything
to come through--not Jaws or Windows startup sounds or anything.  Someone
tweaked some settings last night but has no idea what exactly he did, but
they worked fine.  But today I was checking the volume controls to see if
everything was as it was supposed to be as far as up down sliders, etc.  One
of the controls--when I attempted to move the slider up--caused the volume
to again go away.  Even plugging in our old speakers didn't bring it back,
so I think there's something in sound card settings that's somehow muted but
we can't find it in any of the volume controls.  I have an SB Audigy sound
card, and the desktop is an XP Home edition.  We don't know where, in some
kind of advanced place or something, that we can go to check everything
sound card-related.  Also I know drivers may need updating and am not sure
how to check on this.  How would someone go about testing a sound card to
see if that's the issue?  I was also told I had to plug speakers into the
sound card jacks instead of the speaker jacks one would normally use.  I
just don't know, and neither does my sighted niece, what we can do to get
sounds back.  I hope someone may have suggestions.

Thanks.  Joanne
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no system or other sounds coming from computer

[joanne]

We switched to a new set of speakers on my desktop and couldn't get anything to 
come through--not Jaws or Windows startup sounds or anything.  Someone tweaked 
some settings last night but has no idea what exactly he did, but they worked 
fine.  But today I was checking the volume controls to see if everything was as 
it was supposed to be as far as up down sliders, etc.  One of the 
controls--when I attempted to move the slider up--caused the volume to again go 
away.  Even plugging in our old speakers didn't bring it back, so I think 
there's something in sound card settings that's somehow muted but we can't find 
it in any of the volume controls.  I have an SB Audigy sound card, and the 
desktop is an XP Home edition.  We don't know where, in some kind of advanced 
place or something, that we can go to check everything sound card-related.  
Also I know drivers may need updating and am not sure how to check on this.  
How would someone go about testing a sound card to see if that's the issue?  I 
was also told I had to plug speakers into the sound card jacks instead of the 
speaker jacks one would normally use.  I just don't know, and neither does my 
sighted niece, what we can do to get sounds back.  I hope someone may have 
suggestions.

Thanks.  Joanne
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