Sound is not working in Windows XP

[davidson1]

Hello Friend,

I have installed Widows XP Now.But Sound is not coming when I play any Video

When I go to Accesories->Entertainmen t->Sound Control it shows the following instructions

There is no active mixers Available.To install mixer devices,go to control panel,click printers and other Hardwares and click add Hardware

I did the above instructions but still sound is not coming.

What to do in order to sound should come

pl help me

[YarrOfDoom]

Are there any other sounds, or is it only when playing video?
If there's no sound at all, look if you have a cd which contains drivers for your sound device, they usually come with your motherboard.

[davidson1]

Hello Friend,

Sound is not coming for anything....... .I am using Laptop so i didnt get any CD..

But the following Errors comes what should I do

There is no active mixers Available.To install mixer devices,go to control panel,click printers and other Hardwares and click add Hardware

Can u help u...

[YarrOfDoom]

Hmm, perhaps the drivers are available at the website of the brand of your laptop. So if you could tell us the brand and model of your laptop, we could help you searching.

[davidson1]

Hello Yaarofdoom

I am using Laptop HP Compaq.

my laptop model no is C707TU

Can u Help me

[YarrOfDoom]

Here you go:

http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2007/12/01/drivers/compaq-presario-c707tu-laptop-drivers

That's a list with all the drivers for your laptop, if you only need the one for sound, it's one from Conexant or Microsoft.

If you ever come across a situation like this again, just search google for the brand and model of your laptop + the word "drivers".

[davidson1]

Hello Friend

I receive the following Problem when I open my windows media Player to hear songs

Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There may not be a sound device installed on your computer, it may be in use by another program, or it may not be functioning properly.

Which software(Driver ) I have to download and install to rectify my above problem in the below link........... ..

http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2007...laptop-drivers

Can u help me

[YarrOfDoom]

The ones that are related to audio.

[AmberJain]

Hello,

@davidson1: You misinterpreted Yarr's URL. You are visiting the wrong link (although the link that you visited also links drivers for your laptop if you notice carefully). You should have simply clicked the link Yarr provided so that a new browser window (or maybe a tab) should have opened. Instead you probably copied and pasted the URL that was displayed 'differently' by URL tag.

Yarr linked you to http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2007...laptop-drivers while you visited http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2007...laptop-drivers.

Hope this helps...
AmbrNewlearner

[themadjester]

IF that does not work... make sure you reboot... it seems obvious but if you like to hibernate your machine this could be overlooked, I have seen it happen that for mysterious PC reasons sound cuts out until a restart