I've been having problems with a sound blaster live 24 bit sound card since I bought it a few months back. The sound is distorted when I play games, original post here - http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100274
So I thought I would try and find out whether it's my card or my speakers. I have now unplugged my SB card and uninstalled all drivers and software and I have enabled the onboard sound in the bios. When I boot up the only audio device it found was a bluetooth device that I use for my mobile phone (which isn't even an audio device it's just for connecting my PC to my phone so I can swap files etc). So I have uninstalled that aswell and now it dosen't find any audio device at all. In the control panel I can select sound and audio devices but everything is greyed out. I then went into the device manager but the AC97 onboard sound dosen't even register in there so I can't even enable here. Does anyone else have any other ideas or am I missing something, someone pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee help, this is driving me crazy! lol
So I thought I would try and find out whether it's my card or my speakers. I have now unplugged my SB card and uninstalled all drivers and software and I have enabled the onboard sound in the bios. When I boot up the only audio device it found was a bluetooth device that I use for my mobile phone (which isn't even an audio device it's just for connecting my PC to my phone so I can swap files etc). So I have uninstalled that aswell and now it dosen't find any audio device at all. In the control panel I can select sound and audio devices but everything is greyed out. I then went into the device manager but the AC97 onboard sound dosen't even register in there so I can't even enable here. Does anyone else have any other ideas or am I missing something, someone pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee help, this is driving me crazy! lol