A computer device for inputting and outputting audio.
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How to tell if my sound card is listed in Device Manager?
The sound on my computer suddenly stopped working. When I check Sounds and Audio Devices in the Control Panel, I get "No Audio Device" with everything grayed out. When I check the Device Manager under ...
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Need sound card for gaming, not PC
I recently bought a Turtle Beach PX21 headset and also a GTX 650 TI. Do I still need to get a separate sound card for better gaming sound and performance or is there a sound card component in the GTX ...
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Is there a difference between speaker and headphone jacks/ports?
I have a 2.1 speaker setup going into my computer, but primarily plug them into the headphone jack as it is easier to access. I do this because I switch between a couple different devices with these ...
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Realtek “Microphone Effects” no longer working
I have a mic plugged into my computer, and I was able to use the "microphone effects" tab here to enable/disable noise suppression and acoustic echo cancellation.
Noise suppression off and acoustic ...
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No sound Ubuntu 10.10 (have SB Live! card)
I am new to Linux/Ubuntu and I just installed 10.10 on my Dell Desktop PC that was running Windows XP. The PC is about 5-6 years old and the sound card it has is a SoundBlaster Live! card. The Sound ...
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Sound card problem, no audio device detected
I bought a new sound card because my built in sound card did not function. When I open YouTube, Media Player or anything that can create a sound my computer will hang up and sometimes when I start my ...
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No sound from my Windows XP computer
I am not getting any sound from my computer (running Windows XP). I tried to turn up the volume from the start menu but it will not let me do anything. Why is this? I am unsure if I have any sound ...
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Terrible noises from subwoofer of ACER Aspire 6930 with Realtek sound chip
After approximately 5-15 min of listening to music my subwoofer begins to make terrible noises. He's just "coughing". That began after 6 months I had this computer.
Now I found out, that I can ...
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Asus Xonar DSX causing freezes
I have an Asus Xonar DSX sound card installed in my system that has been giving me grief lately, and Asus support and Google searches have been no help in figuring out what's wrong with it. The ...
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Running Jackd on Ubuntu for my External Firewire Sound card
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I have an external Sound card: Phonic Firefly 302.
I've connected the device, installed Jackd, added the lines:
@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - memlock 500000
@audio - ...
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Can't access server sound card when vnc'd into ubuntu server
I've set up my ubunutu 10 server with xfce, nxserver, and now tightvncserver so that I can control it remotely from my Windows 7 laptop. NX is working fine for remote access, but when I run (for ...
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aoss is preventing file logging - logging argument commands
I am using an application which requires aoss. The results are required to be appended to a file. When I write these commands, the file is always empty:
aoss multimon -a DTMF | tee test.txt
aoss ...
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Browsing the web using a secondary sound output device
I use the web for playing music (usually tunein radio). I have two sound cards - one for the computer speakers (primary) and one for my stereo system (secondary). I'm looking for a software - web ...
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Whine emanating from soundsystem, independent of volume, on Ubuntu 12.04
When ever I plug in my headphones in to my computer's headphone jack, on Ubuntu, I get a constant whine that is independent of volume or any other modification I make on alsamixer. I do not have a mic ...
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How can I determine if my sound card is working or not?
My system (windows Xp) does not have any sound!
I feel that my sound card is broken but i'm not sure!
How can I determine that my sound cars is healthy or it's broken?
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Windows Sound bug
I got some issue with Windows 8, some time when I connect my Stereo casque or I disconnect it my the sound stop working, I got this litle red x on the sound icons, so each time I had to restart my pc.
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Soundcard and headset - microphone picks up low to no sound
I have headset connected with two 3.5 mm jacks to my computer. I use my microphone mostly for communication via TeamSpeak. Unfortunately, in the last time, the other side hears sound which goes slowly ...
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How do I troubleshoot my win7/win8 browser and application sound halting after a system sound, when system sounds still play fine?
How can I effectively troubleshoot or solve the following sound problem?
Microphone sound works fine
Speaker sound will work fine for a bit but then a 3 tone system sound plays in windows 8 (it was ...
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Disable automatic cable control in VIA® VT1708S?
I have Asus P7P55-M motherboard with embedded sound card VIA® VT1708S. Driver is 6.0.10.1200 and OS is Windows 8.
From time to time a card starts to glitch that cable to speakers is connected and ...
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No sound when I plugged into my jacks
Everything was fine when I installed ubuntu onto another partition like (G:). Now I uninstalled my ubuntu partition and I formatted this partition.
Right now can not get sound when I plug Creative ...
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Will an 8-channel HD sound card output HD 7.1 surround sound through…?
I'm considering buying an MSI C847MS-E33 mATX with an integrated CPU and sound card for use as a micro CD/DVD-player/HTPC. The mATX has six audio ports on the back panel, and one internal port/header. ...
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Stream Soundcard to Squeezebox
I'm looking for a way to transmit what's being played by my soundcard directly to my squeezebox.
The goal is to be able to having anything music that's being played (whether it's from myspace or ...
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When I try to run audio through my sound card, it doesn't work
I recently built a pretty decent window 7 dekstop, and have run into a problem with the sound drivers. they have been working fine up until a few days ago, when all of a sudden, the "Xonar DX Audio ...
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Windows XP: No audio, no master volume available or disabled, device and driver shows okay
I have here a Windows XP Prof machine (asus laptop A2D) with a onboard soundcard (Realtek AC97) that was working previously OK. On some moment the soundcard does not produces any sound and the most ...
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Plugging USB sound card prevents Windows Screen saver from running
I'm developing an embedded Windows based device with some extra hardware (an information kiosk).
I need second sound card in the device so I use USB Device like this
but when I plug it in it ...
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Edirol UA-25 driver on Windows 8 Preview
I've installed Windows 8 developer preview on a laptop and everything is working apart from my external sound card.
The sound card in question is this one, and I've tried downloading and installing ...
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soundblaster x-fi HD SPDIF input not working in windows 7
I recently bought a Creative x-fi HD usb sound card, with the intent of using the SPDIF optical input to play audio from my PS3 games console through my Computer.
I have connected the sound card to ...
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Separate front audio panel in GNU/Linux
Is there a way to make the front audio panel act as a separate sound card in GNU/Linux?
I have a motherboard with sound card that may be split into two logic sound cards (front panel and rear panel). ...
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Running JACK with Traktor Audio 2 soundcard (WIN8)
I want to send audio from the Dj-Software Traktor 2.6 to the DAW Ableton Live 8.2.2 and output it's master through my soundcard . As an audio interface I'm using Native Instrument Traktor Audio 2. For ...
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USB Sound Card with no “native” sound card
On a PC (HP ML110 G60), with no soundcard, Can I achieve sound/microphone plugging a USB sound card? Runnning Linux.
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Is it possible to lock the S/PDIF output sample rate to 44.1 on a Creative External Sound Blaster Live! SB0490?
Is it possible to lock the S/PDIF output sample rate to 44.1 on a Creative External Sound Blaster Live! SB0490?
I have recently attached my SB0490 to a new Windows 7 computer with the latest drivers ...
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Why can't I record my microphone when audio is playing through my speakers?
I have a Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221 device in my Compaq Presario CQ-60 211DX, and I want to record a Cyberacoustics headset through it via a standard 3.5mm jack. When I do this normally, ...
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Soundcard troubleshooting
My creative X fi xtreme audiois detected, without problems, drivers are up to date. But no sound is coming out.
The sound panel doesn't show the audio levels when I try something like youtube, and ...
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Windows can not find a playback device. Soundcard installed and working
Okay let me set the scene of this computer
Dell Dimension 3100
Added ATI Graphics Card,
Ram Upgraded to 2GB
Windows XP SP3
So the problem is thus:
Going Start>Control Panel> Sounds > Audio
No ...
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How to stop annoying zooming sound in Google Chrome?
As soon as I launch Google Chrome or another Chromium based browser, I can hear a constant annoying zooming/buzzing sound. I don't have this problem with IE, Firefox, Safari or Opera.
I tried several ...
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Does sound card quality matter for digital output?
I want to use a cheap USB sound card to connect my Raspberry Pi (which has only HDMI and stereo out) to my home cinema receiver (which has no HDMI input), in order to get digital surround playback.
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Any way to enable headphone stereo in games that don't have an explicit switch?
It appears that pretty much every game out there implements stereo for speakers: that is, if a sound comes from the left, only the left speaker plays it. There is none of the sound coming from the ...
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How do I troubleshoot static noise in headphones connected to a computer that persists even after replacing the sound card?
I have an Asus P6T based system. I was using the on-board sound (plugging in Logitech X-230 2.1 analog speakers in the green "front speakers" 3.5mm analog output, then plugging in my headphones in ...
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Audio output soundcard and video card
So I'm running the ATI 4870x2 and from this with a DVI to HDMI adapter I have audio and video going to my tv - which feeds through to my amp and speakers. This is wonderful and I couldn't be happier, ...
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VU meter web application [closed]
I want a VU meter web app which can detect sound levels from my system's mic. Any suggestions?
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Hearing a clicking noise from soundcard all the time
I have installed Fedora 17 on my laptop. A few days ago I updated my fedora (but not upgraded). I shut down my computer and since the next time I turned it on I am hearing a clicking noise all the ...
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Sound card issues (High Definition Audio Controller)
I have a 5-year-old Acer Aspire 4520. Until a month back it was working beautifully on Windows 7 32bit. But then out of the blue, the sound stopped working. I've tried reinstalling the OS 3-4 times. ...
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Any difference between green line-out connection on back and front of PC?
On my Windows XP PC, there is a green line-out connection for jacks at both the back and the front. Is there any technical difference between both of these, or are the both effectively the same and ...
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graphics-card makes sound-card produce a buzzing sound
Recently I bought a new GPU: GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and after installing it I get a strange buzzing sound. It's not always there, just sometimes (mostly when I open some game, but sometimes also in ...
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Hearing static from front audio port on soundcard
I recently bought an Asus Xonar 5.1 DG soundcard. I have connected my front audio to the soundcard header, the problem is though, when I use my headphones in the front jack I hear static when the ...
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No digital audio output with Asus Xonar DG
I've purchased an Asus Xonar DG as replacement for faulty onboard audio in a Medion 8822 as it has an optical output which is all I really need to feed my HTPC.
I uninstalled the previous ...
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Sound is way too quiet on full
At first I thought it was the sound chip on my motherboard, so I put in a Creative Audigy 2 ZS. The audio was certainly better quality, but just as quiet.
I rebooted today and the audio was very loud ...
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Sound crackling in Windows 8
I have Windows 8 and a Realtek high definition audio integrated in the motherboard. For some reason I always get crackling sound when I listen to anything.
It doesn't always happen and it last a ...
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Is there a free or open source equivalent to VAC?
Is there a free or open-source equivalent to Virtual Audio Cable for Windows?
I want to install a virtual sound card on Windows XP so I can stream the sound of a monitoring software on an ESX virtual ...
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How to prevent sound being sporadically choppy when playing Amiga games on WinUAE?
I find that when playing Amiga games in WinUAE, the sound goes choppy for no apparent reason. Sometimes this happens right away when starting emulation, other times sound is fine for a while then ...
