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I'm having yet another problem with my pc. When i try to play videos there's no sound when i look for help it says either i have no sound card, its not activated or it's broken.

I'm pretty clueless with computers. so any help would be well recieved.

Basicaly if i have no sound card can i buy one and install it myself or do i need a tech to do it?

If it's not activated where do i go to activate it?

Thanks for any help.

Have you had sound on your computer before this happened ?.

yes you could install a sound card your self its not that hard .
if you dont have one in your computer already ?.

It could be any number of things without having a look.

1) You could have no sound card, and no onboard sound either.

2) No sound card, but have onboard sound, with it turned off in the bios.

3) No sound card, but have onboard sound, it's turned on in the bios, but you've not installed the drivers.

4) You've got a sound card, but installed no drivers.

5) You've got both a sound card, and onboard sound, but they're conflicting with eachother.

It's easy enough to check if windows is detecting any audio hardware through the control panel, but if you've not been through your bios options before, then it's a little more difficult to detect, and depends greatly on your motherboard, it's bios version, and onboard hardware/chip.

If it's a prebuilt system, and pretty new, I'm guessing you've got onboard sound, it's on by default in the bios, yet you've not installed the audio drivers. Check the disks that came with your pc and look out for any audio related drivers.

[quote]Have you had sound on your computer before this happened ?.[/quote]
No

[quote]It's easy enough to check if windows is detecting any audio hardware through the control panel, but if you've not been through your bios options before, then it's a little more difficult to detect, and depends greatly on your motherboard, it's bios version, and onboard hardware/chip.[/quote]

See thats lost me !laugh! i know i should read more about computers but god it's dull. Ive looked in the control panel and theres a sound section but i don't want to press anything and fuck it up.

[quote]If it's a prebuilt system, and pretty new, I'm guessing you've got onboard sound, it's on by default in the bios, yet you've not installed the audio drivers. Check the disks that came with your pc and look out for any audio related drivers.[/quote]

It's not new its from a friend who doesn't have all the manuels. My last PC died on me and i haven't got the cash for a new one right now. don't no if this helps but its

GenuineIntel Pentium(r) processor 128.0MB RAM windows 98.

cheers

I mean, it's pretty hard to tell you what to do (maybe someone else can).

It's an old pc by the sounds of it, but do you get the Win 98 jingle on start up & shut down?

Always pays to google it

More often than not someone has had/got the same problems



Failing all that,try running the free 30 day trial mr fix it utility

Cheers for them i'll take a look.

I did google it before but couldn't find anything to help, must have missed these !bow!