hi i am new to this site, and i have to say it looks nice... very nice.


i have just gotten into computer upgrading, and am taking classes in it, and i have been reading up about it for 2 months.

i bought a computer last year from PC world last year, the Packard bell imedia 1508.

and every 3 months i do a full system reboot, installing a fresh copy of windows xp home OEM, with my serial....

now normally it works fine and all the hardware works fine as well......BUT, this time it decided to be difficult:

i rebooted (freshly installed XP home OEM) it and for some reason, there is no sound. i have the cable hooked up like it was before the reboot, and normally the sound comes on fine, but this time there was no sound. i checked out my drivers, but they were fine, i upraged them but to no avail.

my sound comes from the integrated speakers in the monitor, so i upgraded the driver for that as well, but nothing.

now i get no sound what so ever ,

my sound card, is integrated with my mobo, and i tries each port on it, even the mic one, but still nothing.


this are my specks from Belarc:

[B]
Operating System [/B]
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

System Model
Packard Bell NEC PB34213001
System Serial Number: 048852820052
Chassis Serial Number: 50424E
Enclosure Type: Desktop

Processor
3.07 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Main Circuit Board
Board: NEC COMPUTERS INTERNATIONAL GA-8I915PM
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 20q 08/30/2005

Drives
160.03 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
152.85 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4164B [CD-ROM drive]

ST3160023AS [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 4MT1GSRP, rev 3.00, SMART Status: Healthy

Memory Modules
1536 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 256 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' has 256 MB

Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 160.03 GB 152.85 GB free



Controllers
Intel(R) 82801FB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2651
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]

Display
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE [Display adapter]
LGE M1710A [Monitor] (17.1"vis, March 2005)

Bus Adapters
Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 2658
Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 2659
Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 265A
Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 265B
Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 265C

Multimedia
Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device

Communications
Smart Link 56K Voice Modem


1394 Net Adapter
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
primary Auto IP Address: 81.100.105.202 / 22
Gateway: 81.100.104.1
Dhcp Server: 62.253.64.21
Physical Address: 00:14:85:48:A7:9E

Networking Dns Servers:
194.168.8.100
194.168.4.100

Other Devices

Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (5x)


please can you help?

check your Event Viewer for errors.

Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer

i believe in such a case you would want to check the System tab, and see if there's any RED crosses that's related to your sound issue.

hi thanks for you very quick reply.

i did what you told me to, and found 6 errors,

5 of them were CDrom errors, this was their message:

The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block.


the other one was a system error. the message was

Windows Setup encountered non-fatal errors during installation. Please check the setuperr.log found in your Windows directory for more information.

what do you think?

Belarc is not showing any audio device. The half duplex is audio for your modem.

Try loading the drivers from PB:

http://support.packardbell.com/uk/it...4213001&g=2000

Realtek High Definition Audio drivers 5.10.0.5129 WinXP SP2 17-10-2005

i installed the newsest drivers for it, but it didnt work.....

wierd, and then i installed the oldest drivers, and it works!

thanks for the advice, but any reason why the old drivers work and new ones dont.

THANKS ANYWAY!