My sound hasn't worked at all on my pc for quite some time. I have checked everything I know to check, speakers, drivers, IRQ, etc. and windows says everything is ok. I even formated my hard drive and reinstalled win95.Still didn't work. Then I went to packard bells site and downloaded their driver for my SoundIIIAudiodevice w/SWT. I loaded the driver.
Now the sound "works" with my speakers turned all the way up, but for example, when I go to change the volume on my desktop volume control bar, the little "ding" sound it makes when you change volume is buried beneath a "static machine gun" sound. Literaly like a machine gun whos shots make a static sound instead of a "bang".
The first time I encountered the "static machine gun" was when I was playing MechCommander on my system even though my system didn't meet the minimum requirements for the game. During the opening screen shots all the sounds, music and dialog was covered with that terrible sound. However, if I rebooted and ran the game again, the sound would work fine. It was shortly after playing that game that my sound died.
Is it possible that running applications on systems that don't meet the minumum requirements can burn out components of that system?
Can anyone help? I feel like I am so close to restoring my sound without buying a new sound card, that I can almost taste it.
Thanks