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PC Problem -- No sound bytes

Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:54:14 AM

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I see Opera has a new version out, and Firefox is my 2nd favorite browser, but as much as I'm dying to download both of them, one problem at a time is about all I can deal with for the time being. After I did multiple scans for viruses, trogans, worms, and malware, I had to do a clean reinstall of Windows XP yesterday, so no new programs until I get my PC working right. It took me 6 hours to reinstall everything, and I still don't have sound, so I don't know what the heck is up with that. Anyhow, I really REALLY want my Opera back, and get back into working with CSS, because that's just some cool stuff!


I still have to upload my webcam, and if I can get my sound working, I'll post a live video of yours truly. Haven't learned to pop a wheelie in my wheelchair yet, but I'll give you a tour of where I spend most of my time. bigsmile I also lost all of my links - bummer that, but I'm hoping that when I reinstall Firefox, they will somehow still be hanging around. (Ok, I realize I'm only dreaming there! lol ) Just bugs me that I lost everything. At least my links for Opera are still available, so that's a start. (And my fiance only "thinks" I'm addicted to the PC?) lol Poor Dear - he just doesn't know! bigsmile

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LéazzBabyJay99 Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:18:06 AM

wink Hi Lady Denise, hope your pc will recover soon. Dont stress yourself up ya, take care too! up

Dacotah Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:21:47 AM

bigsmile

DeniseDBabbit Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:34:04 PM

Thought I had everything fixed last night, but now my webcam doesn't want to work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice from the CD, and once from the website. I've installed new drivers and then rolled them back. I can take videos, but there's no sound. Can't take pictures. I can listen to my CD's. Tired of troubleshooting, so I'll try it again tomorrow. My fiance dropped the webcam, so I think that's the problem. I may just have to buy a new one! faint

Dacotah Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:34:29 PM

faint

DeniseDBabbit Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:56:57 PM

I wanted to post a video to show you all what crafty things I've been working on, and get Binky to ham it up for you since he seems to like the camera. lol cry Oh, well - There's always tomorrow! coffee bug

Dacotah Monday, March 15, 2010 2:16:23 AM

yes There's always tomorrow.

party Yay, you fixed your smilie comment box. Thank you.
May-be you can tell Léazz how you did it. smile

DeniseDBabbit Monday, March 15, 2010 2:59:40 AM

mmm...I didn't do anything to my smilie comment box. I just uploaded Opera 10. (Not the latest, but not so buggy, I've heard.) There should be a little box below where the text is entered to disable/enable smilies.

Dacotah Monday, March 15, 2010 5:11:57 AM

The browser update shouldn't effect the Opera community and the smilies box.
Before when I clicked on the "bigsmile" to see all the smilies it covered the "bigsmile", now it doesn't. MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm.
There is a check box and Disable smilies before the "bigsmile".

DeniseDBabbit Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5:13:08 AM

I noticed that too using Microsoft IE browser, which means that one has a bug Which browser are you using?

Dacotah Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5:19:24 AM

I'm using the Opera browser.

DeniseDBabbit Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:18:38 PM

Dare I say bug bug bug ? As much as we like it, Opera browser is always in beta. bigsmile

Dacotah Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:27:08 PM

bigsmile

DeniseDBabbit Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:36:18 PM

My fiance' is such a silly man! I've been stressing over my webcam not working, because he gave me the wrong CD & camera information to upload! rolleyes Tuesday, he found the CD for the one I've got, so I'll upload the right software this time. lol

Dacotah Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:45:46 PM

lol Problem solved. bigsmile

Weatherlawyer Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:08:10 PM

You probably need to reinstall your sound drivers. Do you still have the motherboard disk?

Boot up with that if you do and then load the drivers. Alternatively look up your manufacturer's website for the latest drivers.

You can get your computer hardware specs from a system analyst like Everest Home. It will direct you to third partyware that's how they pay for their freeware.

Just type the motherboard model number and manufacturer into a search box and go to the driver downloads page.

Also get rid of Microsoft's drivers for it if Device manager shows something different to what you remember having originally. C Audio Media or something.

Mine should have been AC97 Realtek AvRak or some such codec. Blinking M$ kept changing it till I got wise.

Realtek: http://www.realtek.com.tw/faqs/faqsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=2&PFid=6&Level=3

DeniseDBabbit Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:27:29 PM

I used Dell's driver update device to get my sound back. I think it was the wrong webcam that kept messing it up.

Weatherlawyer Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:41:41 PM

I gather Dell has all their driver stuff written in order to keep you for life. Just a restore disc too.

Shouldn't the web cam work off your Windows drivers?

Not that I am much use. I just downloaded the Motherboard manual for mine and can't find my disc for it. I have no sound controls I can use. I probably need extra codec stuff but don't know what or where to get it.

I just remembered my computer came with all the settings on the HDD I can't access. Motherboard stuff and all. Great.
Now I'm stuck with the hard-wired BIOS and no sound drivers till I grow a Linux brane sel.

I hate reading manuals and I don't like PDFs.

DeniseDBabbit Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:54:09 PM

No. The webcam I've got, and the drivers I installed were incompatible. It didn't work when I went to Logitech and downloaded their drivers either. I'm hoping the CD I've got now will fix the problem since it was working before I had to reinstall XP. My fiance' has a stack of about 3000 disks. Most of them are movies, but the software for his computers are somewhere in that pile, and I refuse to sort it. yikes My CD's are on my desk, within fingertip distance. bigsmile I gave my mother my webcam, and he gave me his new one. Looks like you've got no choice except to read that pdf file. What sound card do you have? You should be able to find the specs online without having to resort to pdf files.

Dacotah Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:31:53 PM

faint

Weatherlawyer Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:28:09 AM

My problem is that I am used to finding downloads the Microsoft way. I try to do the same in Linux and they just don't co-operate.

DeniseDBabbit Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:50:25 PM

Microsoft & Linux are incompatible for a reason! I would LOVE to have a Linux OS. I just got rid of the MS Office suite and downloaded the OpenOffice suite, which is compatible with MS Office. Free is good, and I don't need to buy a license to install it on any other computer. Inkscape is free opensource too. SourceForge.net is where I'm going to de-MS my system. bigsmile

Weatherlawyer Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:20:00 PM

Check out the Linux magazines for sale locally. Every now and again they do a special a one off that is a manual and a disc. I got one from PC Pro that has Ubuntu and full operating destructions. But I haven't got around to fitting one of my old drives for it yet.

Dedicated Linux magazines (as opposed to PC Pro which is geared fro Windows users like most such mags) always have free distros on them; sometimes 4 or more on one disk. All the office-ware is on them except for third party stuff like Java and Flash.

You modem will just work most likely without any input from you or the ISP. Check out the forums of any mag you are going to try. Some are quite slow. Some mags are for techy types.

It really is a drag being a newbie again. It doesn't help being one of a few dozen in maybe your whole city. Rather like the early days of computing when everyone was a newbie.

DeniseDBabbit Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:12:49 PM

Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:

Check out the Linux magazines for sale locally. Every now and again they do a special a one off that is a manual and a disc.


I'll keep my eye out for them - See what I can find online.


Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:

It really is a drag being a newbie again. It doesn't help being one of a few dozen in maybe your whole city.



Don't feel so bad. My fiance does most of the repairs for our area from the newbies. Sometimes we feel like we're the only old timers around here.

Weatherlawyer Friday, May 21, 2010 1:51:58 AM

I'm using Slax now (not to be confused with Slackware.) I tried other live distros such a Dam Small Linux and SliTaz both of which were good but built for small set-ups. Fast as they come though.

Now I'm using a distro that will open YouTube videos and also the browser Konqueror, is a bit like the engine for IE in that it runs all the gubbins.

Not that I have much on a live distro. If I wnat to store bookmarks I'll have to find my USB drive.

Anyway the thing of it is that I didn't need to find any drivers for anything if the distro will load. (Some won't.)

It just finds it all and does it.

That's the difference in outlook with Windows. With Windows you expect drivers of other hardware installs to be default. Then when you use a scanner expect it to work a certain way.

If you use Open Office instead of Microsoft Office, you can be sunk. The Open Office default is to let the Office programme you are using find the scanner and do the printing or saving to file.

Which is probably why it is such a pig. I notice that no self respecting Live Linux distributions use it.

But I digress. Get a copy of a live Linux distro such a Knoppix and it will do everything you need.

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue Saturday, February 12, 2011 7:16:00 AM

If I may add my 5c worth on Linux...
I use Ubuntu on my netbook and it works very well. up.
I don't know much about Windows because I've never used it. left.
On Ubuntu, I replaced totem, the default media player, with vlc. I use GIMP for photo editing etc.
And, of course, I use the Opera browser. party.
I've tried other distros, but Ubuntu is by far the easiest to use with almost everything working out the box. yes.
The easiest way to get it (or to get most Linux distros) is to download the .iso from their website and burn it to a cd. It can be run as a live cd (runs a bit slow and quirky) or installed using the graphical installer. It will automagically install with dual booting without messing anything up. (but always backup to a removable media first to be safe)
For usefull tips and good advice, I usually in to http://my.opera.com/Nepmak2000/blog
Just be sure to choose the right version from their website for either 32bit or 64bit according to your computer. up.

DeniseDBabbit Sunday, February 13, 2011 6:47:26 AM

I recently bought a new Vaio from Sony -- It came with Windows 7. I'd switch it out to if I wasn't afraid of messing it up. I need to find an old computer I can switch the OS on without worrying about it. idea

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue Monday, February 14, 2011 12:52:24 AM

you could always get a cheap netbook, just for Ubuntu. idea

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