Audio from cd rom

Hi, something just happened which has never happened before. I get a message when I put in an audio cd : "Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware available" Any suggestions?
PS I can play the cd but it has no sound. The speakers are in working order.
thanks

 

Go to the System control panel and see if the audio device is still there. (TRY TO WRITE DOWN WHAT MODEL IT IS AND WHAT DRIVER IT USES. While you are at that, go to the manufacturer's site and DL the latest driver.)

1) If you see it in the control panel, uninstall it (do NOT disable it) and reboot. Have any driver CDs / floppy / folder on HD you may need ready for use. If it's a basic or famous audio chip, Windows may know it already and reinstall it.

2) If it still does not work, try through the Install Hardware control panel.

3.1) If it can't find it, manually select your card from the Windows database . . .

3.2) ... or select the driver file in your installation media. Install and reboot.

4) If that fails, try any installer app you may have in the driver media (if you have it) or found on the web. I suggest to try this later, because a Windows specialty is to reinstall automatically a driver that was already installed manually, to possible extra grief.

5) If this still doesn't do, switch the PC off completely, and if you can, do remove the card (PCI, not integrated in motherboard), reboot the PC, shut it down again, reinsert the card, and restart from step 2.

Alternatives to 5): If the audio is integrated into the MB, read up if you can hardware-disable it, either via a jumper setting or in the BIOS (which in turn is either to be set at startup by pressing a key like DEL or F2, or when Windows runs, via a hardware setup utility). Then, reboot the PC, shut it down again, reactivate the audio, and restart from step 2.

Good luck!

 

cd rom

not an expert but poss the speakers are amplified and if there not powered from a battery or lost a connection at the plug maybe or possibly your sound card went to pooh

 

Seems like the CD cable has come adrift ?
regards

 

1) There is NO WAY the operating system will be able to notice that the speakers are not powered. There's just no feedback mechanism from the analog audio output (OUTPUT!) that can do that. A S/PDIF could be different, but this ain't it.

Likewise, the signal path out of a CD drive's ANALOG output (shielded cable) is just audio. It should not cause a written complaint.

2) There are two ways of getting audio out of a CD drive:

- using onboard hardware decoding; by definition, if a drive has an audio out, it can do that;

- by hardware or software decoding, either in CPU or in a dedicated chip, but NOT in the drive.

I am SURE that MP3 is decoded off the drive. I am not sure how the OS determines whether the intelligence has to be derived by analog means (shielded audio cable) or digital (IDE -> southbridge -> PCI bus -> DSP (either on mobo or on audio card).

In this second case, the OS at least TRIES to do the decoding off drive.

All this considered, I'd still guess the problem is with the DSP.

 

Ask MS

TechNet Q236396

While your not having the issue with a video, it is a valid point that some other process my be monopolizing the sound hardware.

 

audio from cd

it might have drifted off connection those are small clips i might have to agree this happened to me moving mine from house to house