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Old 02-15-2008
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Im becoming rather annoyed lately due to the random untimely demises of my computers sound. Ill go around and be watching a vid on Youtube or Listening to some music when all of a sudden POOF my sound vanishes, aaaand videos only seem to play two seconds before freezing to a halt. Please help me.

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Hey Pacamania,

do me a favor and go into your control panel then sounds & audio devices and tell me what type of sound card you have. you might need a new driver.

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Im taking a stab here since its giving me quite a few different things under my Sound stuff. But I have a SoundMAX Intergrated Digital Audio card.

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do me a favor and run driver alert from pcpitstop.

this will let us know what driver you have and what one we need to update for you.

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Yeah its that SoundMAX Intergrated Sound Card.

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did it tell you what driver verison you need to upgrade to?

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Do I need to like register this program for it to show me that I need to upgrade it?

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