Recently I've been having this problem with my sound and I'm not sure
what caused it or how to fix it. After every restart my sound does
not work. Everything appears to be fine on my machine, the computer
detects my speakers, it's not on mute, the volume is turned up, and
when I play any audio it even shows the sound levels on the sound bar
but nothing is coming out of my speakers. If I reinstall my sound
drivers (the most recent ones, I've checked) my sound works on the
restart done by the driver install. But if I restart again the sound
is gone again until I reinstall the drivers. Reinstalling drivers
every single time I turn my computer off and on is not a viable
solution, so can somebody please help? I'm running Vista Ultimate x64
and a X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard.

On Nov 12, 10:51 am, Tony Hodge wrote:
Recently I've been having this problem with my sound and I'm not sure
what caused it or how to fix it. After every restart my sound does
not work. Everything appears to be fine on my machine, the computer
detects my speakers, it's not on mute, the volume is turned up, and
when I play any audio it even shows the sound levels on the sound bar
but nothing is coming out of my speakers. If I reinstall my sound
drivers (the most recent ones, I've checked) my sound works on the
restart done by the driver install. But if I restart again the sound
is gone again until I reinstall the drivers. Reinstalling drivers
every single time I turn my computer off and on is not a viable
solution, so can somebody please help? I'm running Vista Ultimate x64
and a X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard.

Update, now it doesn't even fix my sound to reinstall the newest
drivers, I've lost sound and can't get it back no matter what I do.
Yet the computer still shows that there is nothing wrong.

On Nov 12, 12:15 pm, Tony Hodge wrote:
On Nov 12, 10:51 am, Tony Hodge wrote:

Recently I've been having this problem with my sound and I'm not sure
what caused it or how to fix it. After every restart my sound does
not work. Everything appears to be fine on my machine, the computer
detects my speakers, it's not on mute, the volume is turned up, and
when I play any audio it even shows the sound levels on the sound bar
but nothing is coming out of my speakers. If I reinstall my sound
drivers (the most recent ones, I've checked) my sound works on the
restart done by the driver install. But if I restart again the sound
is gone again until I reinstall the drivers. Reinstalling drivers
every single time I turn my computer off and on is not a viable
solution, so can somebody please help? I'm running Vista Ultimate x64
and a X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard.

Update, now it doesn't even fix my sound to reinstall the newest
drivers, I've lost sound and can't get it back no matter what I do.
Yet the computer still shows that there is nothing wrong.

I tried plugging my speakers into my onboard audio today and the audio
works.

Even though I have the onboard audio set up for surround, though, and
it tests every speaker in my setup fine I can't get any sound from my
surround or sub when playing an audio file.

Bump!! i have the same problem.. little different tho.. sound was
working fine when restarting and shuting down and all.. but today i put
the computer to sleep for an hour or so to take care of some business..
when i came back and started up i got stuck at the welcome screen and my
hdd led was frozen so i hit reset and when i loaded windows sound was
gone with the same symptoms.. everything seems fine in volume panel and
even in winamp but no sound coming out... i have win. vista ultimate x64
and a creative x-fi extreme music sound card (also 4gig of ram and a
evga geforce 9600gt 512mb with amd quad core black edition 2.5GZ on an
asus motherboard


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PaulieXP