Walker and Windows XP

[Walker.]

Hello,

for the past few days whenever I booted up my PC, the sound volume thing started appearing but in my case, muted. I could unmute it and it wasn't really a problem and I didn't care. But now it appears that I cannot unmute it. The box simply wont untick. I don't know what may have caused this, but my speakers and earphones are both functional.

Please help me. And yes I am hopefully getting a new PC soon and switching away for windows 7.

 

[Lulu]

Hazarding a wild guess something may have gone up the duff with your Sound Card, and by wild guess its the only thing that comes to mind.

 

[Walker.]

Hazarding a wild guess something may have gone up the duff with your Sound Card, and by wild guess its the only thing that comes to mind.

Could that be affiliated with the fact that my PC crashes due to overheating every 20~ hours of use?

You know. Crash crash crash and then something finally breaks.

 

[Lulu]

Possibly, did sounds start sounding strange before this happened? I'd assume they tend to go all glitchy, especially in terms over overheating. It's possible something else broke, but i don't know what.

 

[Kamendo]

U DONT KNOW NOTHING

update your sound drivers = fixed

 

[Varen]

If it worked before and suddenly stopped, then it's not related to "Updating drivers", rather than having your drivers corrupt, or your hardware damaged.
Run DxDiag and start the sound testing.

 

[Kamendo]

excuse me varen i think i know my computers

 

[Walker.]

At one moment it randomly let me to unmute it, but after I rebooted the PC it's happening again. When I press to unmute it, it's as if it works for a half of a second but windows seems to be a dick and remutes it instantly.

 

[Vismar]

I had similiar issues back in the xp day, there may be a problem with the audio slot itself. I suggest disconnect both headphones and speakers and test them separatelly in different audio slots. If none of them work, then the problem can lie within the software or hardware as mentioned before.

 

[chris584]

Ways to treat it if it's a hardware problem:
*Get a cheap replacement sound card if it's standalone. If it's integrated....
*Clean dust off it, and if you think overheating is a problem, take off one side of the case and ventilate it manually with a fan, just make sure nothing touches the mobo when it's in use.
* Reseat the card if it's standalone
If all else fails, reformat your hard drive with an XP installer. You'll find for software problems, if everything else seems fine, just starting over from scratch can do wonders. If it does work, reintroduce your programs into the computer one by one to see if they're causing the prooblem.

 

[BoB (Best of Boxes)²]

Based on the description where windows is a dick and remutes: possibility of trollin virus

 

[Walker.]

Okay I'll just reformat.