No sound Hi, the sound on my 6000 quit working. When using the sound controls I get the little window but sound is coming out. I checked the device manager and it does not show a sound device installed. All that is shows is two audio codecs and one legacy audio driver. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks

Jim meyer Jan 27, 2007

I ran the dxdiag program. It told me that a sound card was not installed....now what? Is there an way to add a card or is the motherboard hosed?

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The drivers you mention are related to your sound drivers to they are installed. Run this programme to see if there is a driver problem, click Start>Run then type 'dxdiag' and hit enter. It could be the motherboard sound chip thats failed.

Posted on Jan 27, 2007

Anonymous Jan 27, 2007

It just maybe that your drivers are corrupt, go to the link below and download audio drivers and install again.
http://support.dell.com/support/download...

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