Sooo, I updated my sound card driver today ...

[LionsFan10]

And now my sound doesn't work at all. Went and rolled back the drivers, still nothing. What the hell happened? :confused:

I even tried looking on the internets for older drivers, and admittedly it's an older sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy LS), but that didn't work either. I can't figure out what happened. It was working fine the night before ...

Any ideas?

[gstelmack]

Some day a sound card vendor will come along who knows how to write drivers. Some day.

[k0ruptr]

could it possible have gotten disabled during installation?

[Atocep]

Check your device manager to make sure its being recognized by windows.

[JPhillips]

If nothing else works try uninstalling and reinstalling.

[LionsFan10]

I've tried everything suggested here, unfortunately I lost the install CD a long time ago and I think that's the stem of the problem. I figured updating the drivers wouldn't do so much damage, but apparently I was wrong.

[moriarty]

It's a longshot, but try downloading the last version of windows media player and reinstalling.

[Mac Howard]

I figured updating the drivers wouldn't do so much damage, but apparently I was wrong.

About an hour ago I downloaded an updated video driver from the card producer's web site and installed it. It did absolutely nothing for the video performance I was looking for and promised but I found I could no longer log on to the internet - email, web browsing, ftp all dead :rolleyes: Uninstalling the driver did nothing to improve it.

Fortunately using System Restore I'm back to where I was before downloading the driver and am back on line.

I just love this stuff :(

[LionsFan10]

Well, I figured it out. Apparently the new drivers went in and turned on the "digital output only" option in the control panel, and once I un-checked that option, my sound is working again.

Thanks everybody for all of the suggestions.