My sound has stopped working windows xp

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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Drivers Audio not working, Windows XP. Thread starter melkor Start date Apr 25, After some intense searching I managed to find all the drivers for it the Samsung website only has Win7 drivers. Immediately after the audio driver was installed the sound started working. I was getting Windows sounds as well as music.

I rebooted the system so Windows could install an update I don't know which update , and when the desktop came back up, the sound wasn't working again. According to control panel everything, is working fine. Any help on this would be appreciated. Well first off, you don't want to try and use to many driver packs or sets that are meant for more up to date and modern Operating Systems.

When it comes to Windows XP, it seems to only like drivers, packs and sets that were written for it.

Here's The Driver Good Luck. Thanks Zen, I installed the driver you posted after first uninstalling the other audio drivers and their related programs.

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I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Rohit Siddegowda. Now, reboot the system. Doing so will force Windows to search the system for new hardware devices.

If this happens, be prepared to provide Windows with a driver for the sound card. If no Windows XP driver exists, you may be able to use a Windows driver. The actual hardware devices that will be listed depend greatly on your individual sound card. However, Windows will likely see a single sound card as multiple hardware devices. To test a virtual device, right-click on the device and select the Properties command from the resulting context menu.

In the sections below, I will discuss some of the more useful tabs that you might encounter for a device. Just keep in mind that not every device will have every tab. If the device is failing, the General tab may sometimes present you with some brief information regarding the nature of the problem. Keep in mind that the Device Status is usually accurate, but may sometimes be misleading.

Beneath the Device Status is a Troubleshoot button. I recommend using the Troubleshooting wizard as a last resort. The Properties tab The next tab is the Properties tab. Typically the Properties tab will only exist under the listing for your physical sound card. The Properties tab contains a list of all of the virtual devices that Windows sees on the physical hardware.

As you select each device, you can click the Properties button to display a properties sheet that allows you to enable or disable the virtual device. The Driver tab The Driver tab is the place where you can control which driver is assigned to the multimedia device.

This tab contains four buttons that you can use to manipulate the driver. Most of the time when you suspect a sound card problem, one of the first things that you should do is to update the driver. This is especially true if you upgraded the computer from another operating system.

When you upgrade a system, Windows tries to replace your current driver with one of its own.