yellow exclaimation point in device manager

zander i will check and see what kind of battery i need.
i still got sound.YAY!!!!
thanks

 

Great to hear jan roberts. Thanks for your thoughts about earthquake victims. Latest news is 146 dead.
The battery is usually CR2032 and make sure you disconnect all AC power input to comp before you start touching things.
Your Dell Techo has probably changed your Mother board to something slightly different from original specs.
You will need to get into BIOS to shut down your built in Sound if you are to use a card. It may be possible to Disable in Device Manager as was suggested by Zander (I think). Cheers Neil.

 

Usually a failing battery will cause your date and time to be wrong. Other things can happen, but this is the most common way to tell.
The battery that you will need will be a CS2032. It looks like a watch battery, but is about the size of a nickle. If you change it, just make sure you watch which way it was in there. One side is + and the other is -. They can be bought from Wally World or Radio Shack or a PC store for about 3 or 4 bucks. Easy to change. Some have a little arm over them so be careful not to break it off as that is what sees/reads one side of the battery. Usually a small screwdriver and you can kind of push it out on the opposite side of the arm.

 

i just lost my sound again! listening to an audio book,and it just quit. tried song on wmp and no sound.
havent checked the headphone jack in front yet.
no sound either with headphones or speakers in front.
checked device manager and no yellow ! or anything else.
im going to restart computer and see what happens. brb

 

no sound on restart.
im going to check something out,be back.

 

im back. still no sound,not even noise from speakers, nothing.
no warning,the sound just quit.played beautifully up until it didnt.

 

my sound just came back!

 

What did you do?

 

nothing. just heard one of those windows noises. had sound until turned off.
no music this morning. speakers on, plugged in front in headphone jack. im leaving it there.

 

i think that i have other problems besides just sound.
used TFC to clean it removed 168mb on restart it froze. powered off with button waited 5min started. no beeps,no sound.
went to ie8 to clean the cache, found my homepage set to "about blank "instead of igoogle. put igoogle back as homepage,and then computer running 100% and tabs opening across the header,a few igoogle,lots of about blank.
got everything stopped,via task manager.
could this have anything with my sound problems.
only reason i was doing the "cleaning" was because how the cursor was giggling and skipping spaces. usually cleaning works
but never open ie8 props to find diffent home page.

 

i am now on another computer. the xp one is shutdown. a sputtering static like noise started coming thur the speakers,which i have plugged into the front.im using the speakers and the work no static,no sputtering.
this is an update.