Joanne, I can't tell from your description if you've gone into "sounds and Audio" within the control panel. Perhaps XP Home is different in this way from XP, which I have. But if you can find "sound and Audio" or the equivalent in your control panel, tab and control-tab through the options. Make sure mute isn't checked there and look for default speaker settings.
I've never needed to plug speakers directly into a soundcard. -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of joanne Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 11:08 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: no system or other sounds coming from computer We switched to a new set of speakers on my desktop and couldn't get anything to come through--not Jaws or Windows startup sounds or anything. Someone tweaked some settings last night but has no idea what exactly he did, but they worked fine. But today I was checking the volume controls to see if everything was as it was supposed to be as far as up down sliders, etc. One of the controls--when I attempted to move the slider up--caused the volume to again go away. Even plugging in our old speakers didn't bring it back, so I think there's something in sound card settings that's somehow muted but we can't find it in any of the volume controls. I have an SB Audigy sound card, and the desktop is an XP Home edition. We don't know where, in some kind of advanced place or something, that we can go to check everything sound card-related. Also I know drivers may need updating and am not sure how to check on this. How would someone go about testing a sound card to see if that's the issue? I was also told I had to plug speakers into the sound card jacks instead of the speaker jacks one would normally use. I just don't know, and neither does my sighted niece, what we can do to get sounds back. I hope someone may have suggestions. Thanks. Joanne To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org