No sound card?

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September 29th, 2003, 06:55 PM
SwoBow

No sound card?

I am getting no sound. I have read or scanned much of the recent advice on this point on this board. I have investigated and tried many of steps of advice given others. I am the second owner of this computer. I am suspicious that that I do not have a sound card at all.

What I got back from belarc is:

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System Model: Toshiba Portable PC Version 1.0
Operating System: Windows 200 Professional Service Pack 4

Multimedia:
Game port for Yamaha DS1
Yamaha Legacy DS1 WDM Driver
Yamaha Native DS1 WDM Driver

Other Devices:
Microsoft AC Adapter
Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
Toshiba FIR Port Type-DO [Infrared]
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Toshiba PCX1100U USB Cable Modem (WDM)
USB Root Hub

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So are those Yamaha Drivers actually sound cards? Should I go to the Yamaha site to download new drivers?

Well in truth, I’m getting about 1% of the normal sound. If I lay my ear on the speaker I can barely make out what is being said. (Truly, I am not deaf!) Does that change your opinion?

If I don’t have a sound card, how hard (on say a scale of 1-10 with 10 being very hard) would it be for someone who is nearly a newbie to install a sound card?

Thanks for all your help for us newbies!

SwoBow
September 29th, 2003, 07:34 PM
shamus

Same result with different speakers?
September 30th, 2003, 03:03 AM
NooNoo

Your speakers need to be powered speakers. The newer cards are no longer capable of driving the speakers. To test this, if you plug in headphones you should hear a louder volume.
September 30th, 2003, 12:48 PM
SwoBow

Quote:

Originally Posted by shamus

Same result with different speakers?

I'm afraid I don't have convenient access to different speakers. But I did try the headphone jack and got no sound.
September 30th, 2003, 12:51 PM
SwoBow

Quote:

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Your speakers need to be powered speakers. The newer cards are no longer capable of driving the speakers. To test this, if you plug in headphones you should hear a louder volume.

The tiny sound is coming from built in speakers in this laptop computer.

When I plug in headphones I hear nothing.
September 30th, 2003, 02:33 PM
NooNoo

Aaah laptop, slightly different kettle of fish - make and model please?
October 4th, 2003, 07:53 PM
SwoBow

Quote:

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Aaah laptop, slightly different kettle of fish - make and model please?

Oh, I see, Belarc was not very specific.

I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100.
October 5th, 2003, 06:44 AM
NooNoo

ok first up - reinstall the drivers using the toshiba drivers here

To load these sound drivers, download them and unzip them to say c:\sound (self extracting). Next ascertain if there is a setup.exe in the unzipped files. Now right click my computer, properties, 3rd tab-hardware - device manager button. Under the listing for sound and multimedia, uninstall all items relating to yamaha and soundblaster emulation (if any). If the unzipped files contain a setup.exe, run that by double clicking the file - if not shut down and restart windows and when it detects the sound devices point windows to the c:\sound directory and it should find what it needs in one of the folders. Windows is specifically looking for a file ending .inf.

For future reference, this is where you get your toshiba drivers and stuff

Good luck!