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Old 24-March-06, 07:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Speakers Dead?

As I was playing DDO a few strange things occurred (I'm sure they are connected some how). While I was typing a message all of a sudden every time I hit the enter key I was switched from regular mode to windowed mode and when I hit enter again it went from windowed to regular. So i exited the game to figure this out. When I went to type in an email, no typing came up only the pull down windows came down. This was in outlook and EI. I restarted and the keyboard came back. Yippee!! So I went back in the game and.... No sound. My group could hear me through my Mic But I couldn't hear a thing. I checked all options and everything as far as I can see is fine. I exited again, no sound even when playing music now. Even when I restart the sound during the restart. I went to device manager and the cards are all working fine (audigy 2zs).
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Old 24-March-06, 08:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Did you check the volume settings? Maybe mute got enabled somehow. Also check all of your connections regarding your sound system (i.e. cables, etc.)

As far as the keyboard not working right, sometimes if you hit the Alt key, funky stuff like that may happen. The Alt key is another way to operate the menu of programs, applications, and perhanps some games. It is a way to control and navigate without the need for a mouse.
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If you have a portable CD player or an mp3 player *shutter*, try hooking it up to the speakers to test them. I doubt they're broken.


This is kind of intresting. Today, I restarted my system and once it actually rebooted (started the VGA BIOS and BIOS) there was a loud pop from my speakers - which has never happened before. So, then it tried to find my boot loader, the system beeped a few times and a bunch of symbols got punched out to the screen, stopped, beeped once then sat there. Somehow my system destroyed my boot loader. GRRRRR.. How does this happen.
Anyway, I tried reinstalling GAG and everything's back!
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you have to do the magic thing that cures all microsoft issues.... reboot! (okay turn off the system and then turn on the system)
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I went to device manager and the cards are all working fine (audigy 2zs).
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A good start would be replacing Creative's drivers with these:

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If all else fails reset the CMOS, I dunno why but it appears to work everytime for any number of unknown hardware problems.

I once had a problem were my laptop wouldn't detect its keyboard, I had to plug in a USB keyboard to log in. That sucked big time.
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If all else fails reset the CMOS

It may sound strange but Reza has a point. I have had problems with sound before, after some system taxing software installs, and a CMOS reset fixed the issue I had.

A CMOS restart wont cost you anything and it does come with a guarantee. If it breaks in half you are guaranteed to get to keep both halfs. J/K

Its worth a try.
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Its worth a try.

And just why might that sound strange? I always have a point, its just usually buried very deep in the waffle. Lol
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LOL!!!

You might try one of these, found them on FileFront;
http://browse.files.filefront.com/Cr...owsefiles.html

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Ok, lemme put it this way. If you are an average computer user that does not change their settings too often or does not overclock much or at all, then by all means go with Creative's drivers.
But if you are a hardware tweaker and OC junkie, you will want some drivers that don't break every time you go through a session.
In other words, do you want training wheels or not?
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I have the same problom.
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Old 01-August-06, 08:03 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I had that happen to me about 2 weeks back. After a driver re-install it started working again. But I don't if that's the case here since your buddies can hear you.

After you clear the cmos make sure you disable the onboard sound in the BIOS.
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