Hi Al,

Have you tried via Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices and checked your settings 
there?
Also check your Audio control panel for volume settings.

If the  on-board amplifier is shot,you won't get too much volume or nothing.
Installing the Sound Blaster card would help,but not until you disable the on-board 
audio and designate Sound Blaster to be the default audio device.
Again, settable in Sound and Audio Devices.
Disable can also be done via Device Manager > look for Sound,video and game 
controllers and the on-board (integrated) Audio device.
You have the choice- if the first suggestion didn't work and you have determined that 
the integrated audio is deficient , you can r-click this controller and either 
disable or uninstall it.
Then you install the Sound Blaster card.Reboot.

Hope some or all of this will work for you ;)

Peter E.



-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: [PCSOFT] Weak sound
From: alan smith <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 18-May-2009 8:58:08 PM

The OS is XPpro, mobo is Asrock K7VM3.  All of a sudden the sound went down to almost

nothing. Tried new speakers, even installed a Sound Blaster audio board and still
very weak.

Has anyone had a similar experience??   Thank you for all the help,   Al Smith

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