i am using real player. when i try playing a song of any type i receive an error message saying..... 'cannot open the audio device. another application may be using it.' its not only real player but i have no sound whatsoever, the startup music when xp loads doesn't work either nor nething else. the other day i wnt into control panel, sounds and audio devices and in the volume sub heading it states that there is no audio devices. does this mean i do not have a sound card? i have opened my computer tower and i can see the sound card in its slot. PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME WITH THIS ITS KILLING ME THAT I CANT LISTEN TO ANY SONGSSSSS!!!!!

Hi and welcome to D-A-L

have you ever had any sound on the machine?

what soundcard have you got?

can please go here download belarc advisor and run, it should give you lots of details about your PC

and paste back the results here

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional (build 2600) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.90 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V8X-X REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1006 08/06/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
81.96 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
63.69 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

IDE DVD-ROM 16X [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 6Y080L0 [Hard drive] (81.96 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y2TAQHME, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy 512 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DDR 1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DDR 2' is Empty
Slot 'DDR 3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 81.96 GB 63.69 GB free

Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
vikrensimraj 07/09/2006 1514 (admin)
local system accounts
Administrator never (admin)
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_388945a0 never


Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account EPSON Stylus C66 Series on USB001
Lexmark 3200 Color Jetprinter on LPT1:

Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter]
Daewoo 710B [Monitor] (16.3"vis, s/n GC97HA0751, July 1999)
Default Monitor (3x)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller (3x) MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Standard Game Port
Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
Communications Other Devices
Intel(R) Ham 5628 V.92 Modem


VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
primary Auto IP Address: 82.36.143.76 / 21
Gateway: 82.36.136.1
Dhcp Server: 62.30.192.114
Physical Address: 00:0C:6E:E5:94:47

Networking Dns Servers: 62.31.144.39
195.188.53.175
62.31.112.39
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Microsoft PS/2 Mouse
USB Root Hub (3x)
Virus Protection [Back to Top]
McAfee VirusScan Version 10.0.27
Scan Engine Version 5100
Virus Definitions Version 4846
Last Disk Scan on 28 August 2006 14:07:43
Realtime File Scanning On



I HAVE NO IDEA IF THAT HELPS YOU BUT THATS WHAT CAME UP. yes i had sound for ages but then one day it didnt work i want to sort it out before i go to uni, thanks.
the sound card is UNIMODEM HALF DUPLEX AUDIO DEVICE

can someone please help me with this because i want some sound through my speakers

we're all volunteers on here so sometimes there may be a time before an answer is posted.

have you a driver disc that came with the motherboard/machine?

have a look here http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

hey i bin looking for the driver discs but i think sum1 from the family must have moved them or they got lost wen we moved. i went onto the website. did you want me to download the drivers for the motherboard audio. if so does it usually take around 2 hours to download with broadband because it is for me?. do i need the driver discs or can i do summit else?

IM THE HAPPIEST PERSON EVER!! loll u dont know how happy i am now that i got my sound back. found the disc and just inserted the disc and reinstalled the soundmax, restarted the computer and now it works

thanks brain_damage

Thanks for the thanks

Glad you're all sorted

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