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Hello. I recently formatted and restored (using the factory restore disks) an emachines t3100, running Windows ME, and now I'm getting no sound. There has not been any sound at any point since it was formatted. The soundcard appears to be a Realtek AC'97, although I don't think it's a problem with the card itself.
I'm using a compaq monitor (fs740) from a Compaq Presario 5000us with speakers mounted on the side.
So here's the situation.
The drivers, I assume, are correct and installed properly, as I used the factory restore disks and all of the hardware, except for the monitor and speakers, are precisely what came with it.
Everything appears to be installed properly in the device manager. There are no resource conflicts.
When I try to play a sound, whatever the sound is, the sound appears to play with no error messages. And when I try to play a sound in sound recorder, for example, the state of the wave on the screen changes as if the sound is indeed being played properly.
I have hooked these speakers up every way possible. On the back of this machine, there is one line out jack for the speakers and one for a mic. I tried plugging the speaker wire into both just for laughs to no avail.
The speakers are getting power, as they hum and the power light on the side of the right speaker lights up when you turn them on.
I have tested a second known-good set of speakers on this machine as well, which also produce no sound.
I know my computer (a different one from the one having the problem) has an integrated realtek soundcard, and it has jack retasking, and I have to configure which jack does what (line out, line in, etc) using a program that came with it before it will actually produce sound through the speakers.
I wondered if I couldn't have similar situation here...But I didn't see any soundcard-specific software on the machine anywhere, and the only options I saw in the advanced audio properties was something to configure what speaker set up you had...But none of the options made any difference...And actually, the only difference I did notice was that some of the options seemed to make adjustments to the volume control.
I also checked to see if there were any relevant options in the BIOS (Phoenix bios version something or other), and there were not. None that related to sound, anyway.
Oh, and naturally I checked to make sure that the volume was turned up in the volume control and nothing was muted.
So....Yeah, I'm kinda lost ;-). Sounds appear to be playing, but I'm getting no output. I'm wondering if the audio ports couldn't be shot...But that just seems really unlikely. I had the cover off of it a little while back and I didn't look really closely, but the connections from the jacks to the board seemed to be intact. But I don't know.
Another thing I've wondered is if it's possible I have to install the proper drivers for this monitor, since the speakers and monitor came as a package? That just doesn't make any sense, though, as the soundcard and the monitor would have seperate drivers regardless, and I get the same response (no sound) using different speakers.
Thanks in advance for the help.
I'm using a compaq monitor (fs740) from a Compaq Presario 5000us with speakers mounted on the side.
So here's the situation.
The drivers, I assume, are correct and installed properly, as I used the factory restore disks and all of the hardware, except for the monitor and speakers, are precisely what came with it.
Everything appears to be installed properly in the device manager. There are no resource conflicts.
When I try to play a sound, whatever the sound is, the sound appears to play with no error messages. And when I try to play a sound in sound recorder, for example, the state of the wave on the screen changes as if the sound is indeed being played properly.
I have hooked these speakers up every way possible. On the back of this machine, there is one line out jack for the speakers and one for a mic. I tried plugging the speaker wire into both just for laughs to no avail.
The speakers are getting power, as they hum and the power light on the side of the right speaker lights up when you turn them on.
I have tested a second known-good set of speakers on this machine as well, which also produce no sound.
I know my computer (a different one from the one having the problem) has an integrated realtek soundcard, and it has jack retasking, and I have to configure which jack does what (line out, line in, etc) using a program that came with it before it will actually produce sound through the speakers.
I wondered if I couldn't have similar situation here...But I didn't see any soundcard-specific software on the machine anywhere, and the only options I saw in the advanced audio properties was something to configure what speaker set up you had...But none of the options made any difference...And actually, the only difference I did notice was that some of the options seemed to make adjustments to the volume control.
I also checked to see if there were any relevant options in the BIOS (Phoenix bios version something or other), and there were not. None that related to sound, anyway.
Oh, and naturally I checked to make sure that the volume was turned up in the volume control and nothing was muted.
So....Yeah, I'm kinda lost ;-). Sounds appear to be playing, but I'm getting no output. I'm wondering if the audio ports couldn't be shot...But that just seems really unlikely. I had the cover off of it a little while back and I didn't look really closely, but the connections from the jacks to the board seemed to be intact. But I don't know.
Another thing I've wondered is if it's possible I have to install the proper drivers for this monitor, since the speakers and monitor came as a package? That just doesn't make any sense, though, as the soundcard and the monitor would have seperate drivers regardless, and I get the same response (no sound) using different speakers.
Thanks in advance for the help.