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Centurian:

quote:Originally posted by Doogee:
Hey all.
Heres my prob.
MY SOUND CARD WONT WORK all of a sudden it stopped working in winders and Linux. and its a PCI C-Media 8738 and apparently its one of the ones linux should automattically work with. and it did untill just then i booted up into linux saying ibe removed a peice of hard ware and then i got in to Gnome and there u have it the sound wasnt working. I also booted into windoze to make sure it wasnt a linux problem. and it wasnt it was as if my sound card had been ripped off my mobo. which couldnt happen cos its ONBOARD. For god sake help me i need my music!!!!!!!!!
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Have you had any lightning strikes or power failures recently? That could be the cause. If it were not an onboard I would say unplug it and plug it back in because the pins had a bit of corrosion but with onboards you can't do that.

So my guess is you have burned up your card somehow. If you get a new card you should be fine again. Just make sure the card you get is supposrted by your linux distro.

There is also one other possibility. The speaker wire may have been pulled part way lose. I would check that first and if you have some spare speakers try hooking them up and see if they work.

Still most likely it is the card.

RudeCat7:
Frankly, if it's onboard, and it crapped out in Linux, and Winderz...it's probably bad.

What's cool about that is, that it's time to upgrade!

Check out Newegg bargains

Check out the refurbished section! Great Mobos for $30  

Doogee:
woohoo i got the fucker working! i opened the case and theres was just a big clump of dust on the mobo. It worx yay u guys rock!

Calum:
pretty technical stuff...  ;)

voidmain:
So in this case it turned out to be a "dust bunny" rather than a "bug".

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