Today I was playing some music and it just suddenly cut out half way through the song, nothing, including Windows has any sound at all. I've fiddled with the sound controls, removed and reinstalled drivers and made sure everything was connected properly. I do have sound now but it's very faint for some reason and I can't figure out why. I tried both the speakers and plugging headphones directly into the tower. I am running Windows XP and using onboard sound. It's a K8V-X SE mother board.

Hello Final Fantasty Fanatic,

Welcome to PCHF.

Check your speaker volume as well as your volume controls. Go to My Computer, Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices and click on Advanced under "Speaker Settings".

Actually I managed to fix it, I think it might have occured due to an update from Microsoft for realtek, but i'm not sure. Anyway, I rolled back the updates and reinstalled the drivers and now it seems to be in working order.

Thanks for the update

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Unfortunately, i'm back again. So it's happened again. I could reinstall my drivers but I have a feeling that this problem may reoccur. And there is no sound card, it's on-board, so naturally it is the default. Can anyone shed some light on why this is a reoccurring problem? The sound software that came with the board is called soundmax, when I use it's test feature it seems fine but it suffers from reduced audio noise. I really don't know what to do now except try the same fix again but I don't want to have to repeatedly do it.