Hi. The speaker icon appears in my notification tray but there is no sound from the PC. My installed audio cards are 'Unimodem Half-Duplex' and 'C-Media AC97'. Any help welcome.

movingwater,

Try uninstalling the driver and then reinstall it back into the system. This may clear this issue up.

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right click my computer goto properties-harware-device manager then right click the lambda click update driver browse it with ur cd driver...hope this help

the problem is with your sound driver! reinstall it and if the problem further proceed! check the sound card that it should be place correctly !

There are a few simple things to check first:
• Make sure your computer has a sound card.
You must be logged on as an administrator to perform these steps.
1. Open Device Manager by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Device Manager.‌  If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
2. Expand the Sound, video and game controllers category. If a sound card is listed, you have one installed. If no sound card is listed, You will need to install one. See Install or remove a sound card.
NoteIf you think you have a sound card installed but you don’t see it under the Sound, video and game controllers category, expand the Other devices category and check any devices listed there. 3. If there is a yellow question mark next to the name of the sound card, there might be a problem. Right-click the name of the sound card, and then click Properties.
4. Click the General tab, and then look in the Device status box to identify problems with the sound card.

Ok go here http://www.emachine-upgraders.info/d...ownloads.shtml

install the Intel INF Patch 4, then RESTART your comp, you have the Realtek driver install again

DON'T FORGET THE SYSTEM RESTORE POINT BEFORE INSTALLING EACH DRIVER

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Hope this helps

I think you are looking at the wrong thing.

Lets start from the begining-

1. Make sure the drivers are installed. I am going to assume you are using XP since you did not stat otherwise. Right click on "My computer" and click on manage
On the left side you will see device manager, click on that and a device tree will show up on the left side. Look for the catigory " Sounds, video and game controllers" if it is not listed then you do not have drives installed. Look for any device with a red of yellow symbol next to it. If this is your case, post about not having drivers for your sound card and list the model of your laptop. If you dont see either, then you may have to get into the BIOS to enable the audio hardware

2. Make sure windows knows what sound card to use.
Open control panel and make sure you are in classic view (left side, but if you see more then 15 icons then you are in classic view) Find "Sounds and audio devices" open that and click on the tab at the top called audio. In two of the drop down boxes, one under sound playback and one under sound recording, make sure your sound card is selected. (unimodem is your internet modem, not your sound card, don't select that, if you have no other option then your card is not setup to the system and you are back at step one)

Once that is done, click volume under the sound playback and make sure all of the sliders are up (except for the mic) and unmuted. Use what ever media player of choice you want and test the sound. Make sure the volume in the player is turned up too.

Good Luck!

Uninstall any sound drivers on your system. Go to your motherboard manufacturer's website & download the latest sound drivers & install them.

If you have any difficulty in finding the drivers, please let me know ur mobo model. I will send you the link.

Unfortunately your best bet on your Inspriron 531s is to go back to Vista. According to Dell, this system was specifically setup to run Vista and, therefore, no XP drivers are guaranteed to work on this model. Most of the time for onboard devices, if they are not listed on the site, they are usually native to the operating system and do not require a driver download. Dell does, however, have some XP drivers for this model listed on their support site here

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WW1&osl=EN&catid=-1&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INSP_DSKTP_D531S&hidos=WW1&hidlang=en

The only audio driver listed is for a Creative Labs X-Fi sound card and I am not sure that is what you have. Your best bet is to uninstall your sound card drivers, reboot, then install these. Good Luck

You have to download and install audio drivers from this page here.

Go to your devices tab click on the ASIO driver Lambda and when you get that message click reset and try again it should work.