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I have taken another look at this GD Problem I am having. You remember that it all started when I discovered that the DVD drive in the MSI W7 PC no longer worked. When I disconnected the power and data cables from that drive, the machine promptly stopped showing any raster on the monitor - even though the PC seemed to be powered on. I have a MSI FM2-A85XA-G43 with W7. Out of the blue, it suddenly did not show any raster on its monitor. I first pulled all cables from all drives except the basic C drive holding my W7. Wonder of wonders, the monitor fired right up! Aha I thought! Then I noticed that even though the only drive connected was said C drive, Windows Explorer in the results clearly shows existence of a DVD drive as P drive. Figure that! Of course there is no DVD, or any other drive, connected. Then I looked at the BIOS boot to see what it showed for drives, and it showed only the C drive, no DVD drive, as I would expect. I wired up another DVD drive I have, and tried things again. Now the BIOS shows the new DVD drive (correct), but Windows Explorer in W7 shows two drives, one as drive D and the other as the famous drive P. The new DVD drive D plays disks, and so I think it works. Drive P remains non-functional. Except that now I see I have no audio! I use earphones, plugged into 'speaker out' on the rear. Always have. I uninstalled and re-installed the Realtek audio driver package, to no avail. However, I see in the Realtek audio display that it does not show anything plugged into anything. I think if I remember correctly, it always did! I think it always showed what was plugged into where. Am I right? I do see that I hand-wrote on my MOBO manual 'use Realtek to display audio connections'. So it should. My Device manager shows no driver problems. Now I am stuck. Any ideas? I am begging assistance. Before I go mad. If I can just get my audio back, I can ignore the phantom P drive. JW Long Thread, overall. Have you tried going into Device Manager and Uninstalling your Audio and then rebooting? After rebooting, install the drivers again. Sometimes that is all that is required. Just installing or updating drivers often doesn't work unless you uninstall first and then reboot and then install the drivers. Pretty quick to try and it doesn't cost any money. -- Buffalo |
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Stormin' Norman wrote:
Why do you believe he has the audio device disabled in device manager? Because he already said he disabled the ReakTek device (controlling both RealTek speakers and RealTek digital), in a previous post. All his current efforts are for nothing, if that isn't turned back on (re-enabled). He disabled it in Device Manager. Right now, only the HDMI audio on the video card is still enabled, as far as I know. Paul |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:24:55 -0600, "Buffalo"
wrote: wrote in message ... I have taken another look at this GD Problem I am having. You remember that it all started when I discovered that the DVD drive in the MSI W7 PC no longer worked. When I disconnected the power and data cables from that drive, the machine promptly stopped showing any raster on the monitor - even though the PC seemed to be powered on. I have a MSI FM2-A85XA-G43 with W7. Out of the blue, it suddenly did not show any raster on its monitor. I first pulled all cables from all drives except the basic C drive holding my W7. Wonder of wonders, the monitor fired right up! Aha I thought! Then I noticed that even though the only drive connected was said C drive, Windows Explorer in the results clearly shows existence of a DVD drive as P drive. Figure that! Of course there is no DVD, or any other drive, connected. Then I looked at the BIOS boot to see what it showed for drives, and it showed only the C drive, no DVD drive, as I would expect. I wired up another DVD drive I have, and tried things again. Now the BIOS shows the new DVD drive (correct), but Windows Explorer in W7 shows two drives, one as drive D and the other as the famous drive P. The new DVD drive D plays disks, and so I think it works. Drive P remains non-functional. Except that now I see I have no audio! I use earphones, plugged into 'speaker out' on the rear. Always have. I uninstalled and re-installed the Realtek audio driver package, to no avail. However, I see in the Realtek audio display that it does not show anything plugged into anything. I think if I remember correctly, it always did! I think it always showed what was plugged into where. Am I right? I do see that I hand-wrote on my MOBO manual 'use Realtek to display audio connections'. So it should. My Device manager shows no driver problems. Now I am stuck. Any ideas? I am begging assistance. Before I go mad. If I can just get my audio back, I can ignore the phantom P drive. JW Long Thread, overall. Have you tried going into Device Manager and Uninstalling your Audio and then rebooting? After rebooting, install the drivers again. Sometimes that is all that is required. Just installing or updating drivers often doesn't work unless you uninstall first and then reboot and then install the drivers. Pretty quick to try and it doesn't cost any money. yes |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 07:20:09 -0700, Stormin' Norman
wrote: Depending upon the age, they might very well be Live CDs, there should be a menu option at start up, Boot Linux from disc or Install Linux. Choose the Boot from disc option. I did that. As for getting sound, fire up the web browser and go to Youtube, as good a source for audio as any. I didn't think to try that - or any other web-based audio for that matter. Not too smart. My excuse is I am too busy, which does not take much at my age. Use your existing discs and try it again. This is the final diagnostic, if you have no sound under Linux, I believe we can pronounce the audio subsystem on the main board as being dead. That's what I thought. Again, I have a Chinese sound card coming. I find it rather coincidental that you lost a DVD drive at the same time your audio crapped out. Makes me wonder if there is something going on at the root of your system such as a power supply which is going bad. I am back. Obviously. I agree. I thought that from the gitgo. Thanks JW |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 11:00:39 -0400, Paul wrote:
wrote: I will be gone until later PM. Other busies, as I mentioned earlier. Thanks JW With regard to the current state of your Windows setup, you currently have the RealTek device "disabled" in Device Manager. So I fail to see how you would expect sound to work, until you turn that device in Device Manager back on ! As things stand right now (after the CMOS resets and Realtek reinstalls, etc), I have: 1) Digital Display Audio AMD HDA Device Not plugged in RED 2) Speakers Realtek HDA Not plugged in RED 3) Realtek HDA Second Output Realtek HDA Not plugged in RED 4) Realtek Digital Output Realtek HDA Disabled BLACK The Control Panel "Troubleshooter" can do this, if you're too lazy to Start : Run : devmgmt.msc and fix it from there. I had run that before ******* I will try the msc before I post this. Hmm - all that did was bring up Device Manager. I like to look in Device Manager (devmgmt program), because it's easier to see how many botched devices I have. For example, on my test machine right now, I have around 20 yellow marks in Device Manager, for some Intel hardware item that obviously doesn't matter :-) If I install the driver to fix that (remove the yellow marks), the Intel morons add some other software to the PC that I don't want, and there is no configuration option to refuse the installation of it (possibly stuff written by the McAfee division.) I have no idea why that package insists on mixing drivers and application level software together, with no way to separate them. So I put up with a raft of yellow marks instead (Grrr). Paul |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 15:10:41 -0400, Paul wrote:
Stormin' Norman wrote: Why do you believe he has the audio device disabled in device manager? Because he already said he disabled the ReakTek device (controlling both RealTek speakers and RealTek digital), in a previous post. All his current efforts are for nothing, if that isn't turned back on (re-enabled). He disabled it in Device Manager. Right now, only the HDMI audio on the video card is still enabled, as far as I know. Paul Oh dear. Plse see my last post. JW |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:24:55 -0600, "Buffalo" wrote: [snip] Long Thread, overall. Have you tried going into Device Manager and Uninstalling your Audio and then rebooting? After rebooting, install the drivers again. Sometimes that is all that is required. Just installing or updating drivers often doesn't work unless you uninstall first and then reboot and then install the drivers. Pretty quick to try and it doesn't cost any money. yes OK, just making sure you uninstalled, then rebooted and installed the audio again. Hopefully you will post back on what the solution was. -- Buffalo |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:24:55 -0600, "Buffalo" wrote: wrote in message ... I have taken another look at this GD Problem I am having. You remember that it all started when I discovered that the DVD drive in the MSI W7 PC no longer worked. When I disconnected the power and data cables from that drive, the machine promptly stopped showing any raster on the monitor - even though the PC seemed to be powered on. I have a MSI FM2-A85XA-G43 with W7. Out of the blue, it suddenly did not show any raster on its monitor. I first pulled all cables from all drives except the basic C drive holding my W7. Wonder of wonders, the monitor fired right up! Aha I thought! Then I noticed that even though the only drive connected was said C drive, Windows Explorer in the results clearly shows existence of a DVD drive as P drive. Figure that! Of course there is no DVD, or any other drive, connected. Then I looked at the BIOS boot to see what it showed for drives, and it showed only the C drive, no DVD drive, as I would expect. I wired up another DVD drive I have, and tried things again. Now the BIOS shows the new DVD drive (correct), but Windows Explorer in W7 shows two drives, one as drive D and the other as the famous drive P. The new DVD drive D plays disks, and so I think it works. Drive P remains non-functional. Except that now I see I have no audio! I use earphones, plugged into 'speaker out' on the rear. Always have. I uninstalled and re-installed the Realtek audio driver package, to no avail. However, I see in the Realtek audio display that it does not show anything plugged into anything. I think if I remember correctly, it always did! I think it always showed what was plugged into where. Am I right? I do see that I hand-wrote on my MOBO manual 'use Realtek to display audio connections'. So it should. My Device manager shows no driver problems. Now I am stuck. Any ideas? I am begging assistance. Before I go mad. If I can just get my audio back, I can ignore the phantom P drive. JW Long Thread, overall. Have you tried going into Device Manager and Uninstalling your Audio and then rebooting? After rebooting, install the drivers again. Sometimes that is all that is required. Just installing or updating drivers often doesn't work unless you uninstall first and then reboot and then install the drivers. Pretty quick to try and it doesn't cost any money. yes How about uninstalling the drivers, disabling the device and then rebooting? If your audio is a physical card, remove it and boot up without it. Then shut down and physically install it again. -- Buffalo |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:23:02 -0600, "Buffalo"
wrote: wrote in message ... wrote in message ... Your attribution line is broken on your last two posts. See above, the user name has gone missing. -- Char Jackson |
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On Thu, 28 May 2015 06:03:22 -0700, Stormin' Norman
wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:35:16 -0400, wrote: Well I still have no audio. I installed one of the Linux Ubuntu CD's I stored away after playing with that OS in 2010-2011. I think they must be the so-called LiveCDs, but I just don't remember. I chose version 10-11, which is shown to no longer to be supported, worse luck. You say you "Installed" Ubuntu, did you actually install it to a hard drive or did you run Ubuntu from the CD? The Linux ability to run from a CD is the reason for the "Live CD" term. Yeh I know. I just figgered to wipe the spare HDD and place Ubuntu by itself on it. Might leave it that way, update the OS, and play again with Linux/Unix. Brings back memories. Thanks Regardless, your audio hardware is toasted. Wait for the new card. Agree. JW |
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On Thu, 28 May 2015 06:10:36 -0700, Stormin' Norman
wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 23:25:18 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:23:02 -0600, "Buffalo" wrote: wrote in message ... wrote in message ... Your attribution line is broken on your last two posts. See above, the user name has gone missing. You have nothing to apologize for, Char's comment was directed to "Buffalo". However, if Char really cared, he would have looked up the quoted message from the message id's. Odds are he was playing Usenet cop, trying to "teach" Buffalo the "right way" of doing things. Understand JW |
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 23:25:18 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:23:02 -0600, "Buffalo" wrote: wrote in message ... wrote in message ... Your attribution line is broken on your last two posts. See above, the user name has gone missing. Not sure what you mean. But I apologize anyhow. JW |
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