ok so i had my comp on listning to music, I walk away for a half hour
and when I come back, i have no more audio device attached to my computer
says the audio device controller in windows
it IS enabled in bios, i checked
i recently installed one of those all-in-one ghetto 3rd party codec kits
it was viris free with avast, as far as I know
how can should I just get a new card? or try to fix the onboar somehow
and im NOT reinstalling windows
try reinstallin the sounds device...this happend to me all the time ....not sure y but i just go into the device manager and uninstall the sound card and then hit search for new devices.
but last night i installed somethink like the Gordian Knot Codec Pack
and i think that might of killed it
ive uninsatlled and deleted everything from that, and it still doesnt work
i have 1 that you could have if u sent a shipping slip online or by mail then i can ship you it. if you have any questions e-mail me @ d_swope87@verizon.net.
Onboard sound is just to say that there's a sound output device, like onboard video, it's just to say that you can get a picture.
If we talk about sound quality :
-It's often based on AC'97 standards : noisy and bad sounding.
-There is lots of noise from other motherboard components, because mobo designers never thought about filtering the power input of the chip.
-They're often cheapo codecs.
-They eat lots of CPU and features often require a background prog eating 20MB of RAM.
-Unreliable as you noticed.
$5 soundcards are about the same, but they can be changed if they turn bad.
It happened to me lots of time ago. Changing the drivers helped.
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