Sound card and driver problems (1 Viewer)

[kami]

Hi everyone, I have a teensy(or not so teeny) problem - my computer does not make a sound, nor does it recognise any sound devices whatsoever as being installed; no outdated sound drivers, no battered sound card, nothing. Even the sound icon in the tray has dissapeared and when I go into the control panel to look at the sound and audio properties everything is either empty or grayed out...But what is odd about it is that it was all working perfectly fine till I re-installed windows. So what must I do to get it back on track? Any help would be vastly appreciated.

Oh, and as far as system dohickies, its an LG Laptop running Windows XP Pro.

 

[Collin]

Have you reinstalled the chipset drivers after reinstalling Windows?

 

[kami]

Have you reinstalled the chipset drivers after reinstalling Windows?

Chipset...? *blinks*

 

[z600]

This is what could of happened

1) Your sound card is DEAD
Solution-You have to replace your motherboard in your laptop

2) You recently installed windows and you forgot to install the sound drive.
Solution-Find the driver and install it

3) Your chipset is broken. Some computer chips that runs sound area of your computer is broken
soulution-see solution 1

Bottom line-take it to a computer guy.

 

[Collin]

Chances are when you got that LG laptop, everything was all set up for you. You turned on the computer, went through the Windows XP setup wizard and BANG, you're on the desktop ready for whatever that you do on your laptop. LG basically already had Windows installed for you aswell as drivers for your hardware.

If you reformatted the hard disk and reinstalled Windows using a Windows XP installation CD, you would have installed Windows but not any drivers specifically associated with your hardware, including chipset drivers for your motherboard. Since you're using a laptop, you're probably on a sound controller integrated into the motherboard. Hence you need to install the chipset drivers to enable your sound to work properly (or in this case, perhaps at all). The drivers should either be included on a separate drivers CD included with your laptop or on a recovery partition. However if you reinstalled Windows via your recovery partition, those drivers should already have been installed along with Windows and hence another cause might be the source of the error. If you don't have the drivers, you will need to re-acquire them by either contacting LG, or locating the specs of your motherboard (or atleast the relevant details regarding sound) and downloading the correct drivers.

 

[kami]

Ok. I think I get it now. Thanks Collin!