Help! Speakers won't work

clivehamilton

Has anyone got an idea what is wrong? A couple of days ago may speakers stopped working and all I get is an occasional electronic bleep from the computer itself. I tried all the usual obvious things like making sure that the power to the speakers was on but no joy. So I then tried the troubleshooter which mainly involved uninstalling and re-installing but without success.

Device manager shows a yellow circle with a black exclamation mark against
"C-Media AC-97 Audio Device" and in General when I click on this item it states "this device cannot start (code10)"

Thanks in advance

scheming_gypsy

it's not a problem with your speakers but your sound card.
The "C-Media AC-97 Audio Device" is your sound card. As you've already unistalled and re-installed try doing a system restore to before it went tits up and see if it's ok, just incase something has started to conflict.

If not you may need a new sound card.

Mr_Skint_2

What make of PC have you got, as I shall point you in the right direction
for the drivers if you are stuck as where and which to get.

clivehamilton

Hi Mr Skint

I've got an e-machines 960 - bought from PC World just over 3 years ago.

Hi scheming_gypsy

I had a problem some time ago with a virus and turned system restore off. So that makes that option a non-starter.

Regards

Browntoa

firiends PC had this same problem just yesterday same error message, same on board sound card ...

I cured it with system restore but it seemed to be caused by the installation of either an ipod or an MP3 player

Browntoa

found the driver here

http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=136560

Model AC97 Audio Device
Manufacturer C-Media
Device Type sound
Operating Systems WinXP
File Name wdm_a356.exeFile Size 9.5 MB
[size=-2]22 minutes 38 seconds @56kbps
1 minute 39 seconds @broadband

also here

http://www.techspot.com/drivers/index/file/information/1928

reported to cure the same problem on this thread

http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=136010[/size]

Mr_Skint_2

clivehamilton wrote:

Hi Mr Skint

I've got an e-machines 960 - bought from PC World just over 3 years ago.

Hi scheming_gypsy

I had a problem some time ago with a virus and turned system restore off. So that makes that option a non-starter.

Regards

Ooops sorry for not posting back :beer:

Thanks to Browntoa :beer:

Fat_Boy

I had this exact same problem a while back. Did all the things mentioned above to no effect, ended up buying a new sound card from novatech, only cost £10 and works a charm (especially with the new speakers I got at the same time )

clivehamilton

Downloading the driver has solved the problem.

Thanks for all the advice.