gah.

i have a soundblaster audigy and an ATI tv wonder. i installed them about a month ago and everything was working fine.

today i go to start playing music and no sound at all. run the soundblaster diagnostic thing that checks your speaker channels and no sound. in itunes there is no sound and the progress meter doesnt move either.. in the control panel Audigy is the default playback device, etc.

speakers are fine, i played my ipod through em.

i uninstalled and reinstalled the Audigy drivers, then itunes. no go. i checked and the Audigy and ATI card are both on seperate IRQs.. is there anything to be gained by my physically taking anything out? thats the next step i guess, but i thought id ask for other ideas first.

thanks

7/2/2006 4:55:13 PM

Does your computer happen to also have onboard sound?

[Edited on July 2, 2006 at 5:04 PM. Reason : next post]

7/2/2006 5:00:59 PM

yep, and its disabled in the bios along w/ all the serial ports, floppy controller, parallel port, everythign else i dont use.

7/2/2006 5:03:13 PM

Remove the SB card and enable onboard sound in the BIOS. Install the drivers for the onboard CODEC (if not already installed) and see if you get sound.

- If sound works from the mainboard then the SB card is quite possibly hosed. If the card is new enough RMA it, if not, I recommend a non-Creative Labs card. (Creative used to be awesome but their recent QA is not so good.)

If there is no sound from onboard audio then some of the audio subsystem files in Windows may be corrupt. To avoid re-installing Windows in this case, see if you can get sound to work under another user profile (make one just to test.) If you are using a recent Media Player Beta, remove it. (It causes a few problems on its own.)

[Edited on July 2, 2006 at 5:09 PM. Reason : +]

7/2/2006 5:04:31 PM