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I have a Gigabyte DS3P mobo and have always used the onboard audio.
Tonight the audio stopped working at some point, and I can't figure out what's wrong with it.
The first thing to note is that I hadnt been playing any audio for a while when I came to record some audio from my line-in port. I record from a mixing desk through a phono cable to headphone jack that plugs in the line-in port, it was already in the line-in port but not connected at the mixer end, so I plugged the red and white ends into the outputs on the mixer, turned around and noticed that the Realtek manager said a cable had been disconnected. Upon checking the Audio I/O tab of the realtek manager it no longer registers any input or output, even for the green speaker jack, although strangely the Digital out seems to have lit up (but I can't remember if it always looked like that).
I went through everything I'd done since I last knew the sound worked. I uninstalled Eve that i'd just put on and I had done a disk cleanup and defrag so i used system restore to earlier tonight with no success. I've reinstalled all the audio drivers and no joy.
Something really strange I've noticed is my recording software reading a pulsating signal, with nothing plugged in and no audio playing on the computer. If I raise the recording volume to the middle the signal drops, if I raise it further it suddenly comes back and hits the red......but nothing if it's in the middle of the volume paddle
And opening an audio file plays fine, even showing the real-time levels in the track......just no output whatsoever
I'm coming to the conclusion that something has happened when I plugged the line-in into the mixer as this was the last activity I saw from the realtek manager (saying that a jack has been removed).
I'm at my whit's end now as I can't deal without audio and have no idea what more I can do, I've tried everyting I can think of with no success. Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated.
Thanks.
-EDIT-
I've done a lot more digging and tried everything from registry editing to playing with the drivers even more and still no luck.
It's suggested elsewhere that if I am unplugging the jacks and nothing is registering as being plugged / unplugged that the onboard sound has died. What are people's opinions on this, does this sound likely, and if so buying a soundcard should fix the no sound issue, but if it's XP being a bugger will this still leave me soundless and also out of pocket? :/
-EDIT 2-
Just for anyone that has a similar problem and stumbles across this post when looking for a solution.
The onboard sound had blown, I bought a soundcard and now I have sound once more
Tonight the audio stopped working at some point, and I can't figure out what's wrong with it.
The first thing to note is that I hadnt been playing any audio for a while when I came to record some audio from my line-in port. I record from a mixing desk through a phono cable to headphone jack that plugs in the line-in port, it was already in the line-in port but not connected at the mixer end, so I plugged the red and white ends into the outputs on the mixer, turned around and noticed that the Realtek manager said a cable had been disconnected. Upon checking the Audio I/O tab of the realtek manager it no longer registers any input or output, even for the green speaker jack, although strangely the Digital out seems to have lit up (but I can't remember if it always looked like that).
I went through everything I'd done since I last knew the sound worked. I uninstalled Eve that i'd just put on and I had done a disk cleanup and defrag so i used system restore to earlier tonight with no success. I've reinstalled all the audio drivers and no joy.
Something really strange I've noticed is my recording software reading a pulsating signal, with nothing plugged in and no audio playing on the computer. If I raise the recording volume to the middle the signal drops, if I raise it further it suddenly comes back and hits the red......but nothing if it's in the middle of the volume paddle
And opening an audio file plays fine, even showing the real-time levels in the track......just no output whatsoever I'm coming to the conclusion that something has happened when I plugged the line-in into the mixer as this was the last activity I saw from the realtek manager (saying that a jack has been removed).
I'm at my whit's end now as I can't deal without audio and have no idea what more I can do, I've tried everyting I can think of with no success. Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated.
Thanks.
-EDIT-
I've done a lot more digging and tried everything from registry editing to playing with the drivers even more and still no luck.
It's suggested elsewhere that if I am unplugging the jacks and nothing is registering as being plugged / unplugged that the onboard sound has died. What are people's opinions on this, does this sound likely, and if so buying a soundcard should fix the no sound issue, but if it's XP being a bugger will this still leave me soundless and also out of pocket? :/
-EDIT 2-
Just for anyone that has a similar problem and stumbles across this post when looking for a solution.
The onboard sound had blown, I bought a soundcard and now I have sound once more
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