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I have no sound in my computer. Went to sound and it says No Audio Device and it's greyed out and on stop. I went into hidden devices and found a yellow bar next to PPSCAN. I had RegTool go into my computer twice and they couldn't find the problem. They said I may have a corrupt audio. I have NortonAntiVirus and Trend Spyware on all the time.Tonight I made a card for a friend and when the printer started it said Printing Started and when finished Printing Ended but I checked the computer and still no sound. Does that mean anything. Appreciate any help I can get. Thank You Barbara
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The drivers for the touchscreen are integral to the Windows Operating System. If there is a problem with the touchscreen, then it will not be detected and greyed out in the device manager. Ensure that the touchscreen was not disabled in Device Manager. If it is enabled there and it still is not working, then most likely the touchscreen has failed.
Double click on your sound icon on the bottom of your screen. The one with the red x though it. If you do not see it their just simply go to your control panel on your computer.
In the control panel you will see a sound and audio device. Double click on that.
Then go to the sound tab, and click on it.
Under that you will see where you can select your audio devices. Click on the down arrows, chose the audio device you need, then click ok, restart your computer then you should be good to go.
To find what type of audio device you have installed on your computer do the following:
Step 1. On your Desktop, right-click on My Computer and select Manage.
Step 2. You will be brought to the Computer Management Console.
Step 3. In the left column, click on Device Manager.
Step 4. This will show you all the current hardware/devices that are installed on your machine. Scroll down the list until you find Sound, Video, and Game Controllers, and hit the arrow to expand it. You should have your audio device listed there.
Step 5. If you see any device that has an exclamation point next to it, this means that the device is experiencing an issue. This issue may be a bad configuration, or it may mean that the device has failed.
Step 6. if you see any device with a question mark, this means that your operating systems has found the device, but that it is unknown. This can be fixed by installing or upgrading the device drivers.
Step 7. You may even have a device that is hidden for unknown reasons. You can unhide aany devices by clicking on View in the top Menu bar and selecting Show Hidden Devices.
Step 8. On your particular computer, you have an ADI Soundmax card installed and you can download the drivers from the HP website.
you can try and uninstall the sound driver then restart the computer windows should detect it and reinstall the driver(you might want to download the driver and save it just in case windows can't find the driver).
Did you have sound before?
If yes then follow this for xp:
Start/control panel/Sounds, Speech, & Audio Devices/Sound & Audio Devices. Is page greyed out? If yes then most likely its your sound card or on board sound, or your missing drivers.
If not greyed out go to "Sounds" tab, click on any "Program events" sound under Windows then click little black arrow next to browse on bottom right . Sound? If the arrow is greyed out then its the same; audio hardware device or audio driver.
If there is still no sound click on "Hardware" tab and first Sound,video and game controller then "properties". This will tell you under "Device status" if this device is working properly. Do this for each Sound, video ect.... selection in the list. I have found there are usually 6 listings. If not then you are most likely missing a sound driver.
No drivers for your soundcard, this is a computer issue not a speaker issue, contact dell, if you can understand a word they say, ask them "I have Dimension (model number here), I need to know how to install my sound drivers", if you dont know how to do this.
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