yellow exclaimation point in device manager

for 1394 net adapter #3.
i went to device manager to check if i had anything wrong with sound,since i have no sound since day saturday. checked device manager and everything was okay no yellow at all.
tonight i have yellow! under net adapters.

that have anything to do with me not having sound. i plugged headset into front jack and had sound sound for about 3 secs.

thanks will check back.

 

That should not bother your sound. Click on the net adapter and tell it to update the drivers. In the next box, tic the check on line and let it do it's thing.
You could also do the same for your sound device.

 

mrbill it said drivers were best blah blah
but also says it cannot start and wants to know if i want trouble shooter, i click on yes.
getting it off is okay and i can do that, but the putting it back on, i got to put it back on with the add hardware??? i dont understand that.
more help please,

 

You can try uninstalling the device in Device Manager. Reboot the computer and Windows will find it and reinstall it. See if that works.

 

mrbill i went to the device manager,was i supposed to go there? or ??

 

mrbill per instuctions in #4 i uninstalled it restarted,and if windows found anything it isnt telling me.
will go check device manager

 

well its back with no yellow !,and I have sound!!!!!

 

mr bill I have sound with external speakers too. i am so happy,i really missed it.
thank you very much and i will mark this as resolved. happy face,happy face

 

well shut down and started this morning and i have no sound,again! but i dont have any yellow! or anything. only thing unusual was that it froze on windows screen.not the blue screen. the scanning screen i guess.
powered off.started up,this time loaded.everything fine.except no sound.
uninstalled sound card restarted. windows found did what supposed to,but sound. should i go into device manager >sound,etc and uninstall everything under that branch? thanks

 

Sometime everything under the branch doesn't have a YELLOW ? or !. Do the ones that do, 1 at a time. Reboot after each one.

 

Hi jan roberts and MrBill, would a "System Restore" be appropriate or "Checkdisc" or even "sfc /scannow" ???
Looks like you have Files corrupted as partial remedy followed by recurrence is what you are describing. Cheers Neil.

 

mrbill went to device manger this time 1394 netadapter #4 had yellow ! uninstalled it and left my speakers on and i have sound now.how long i will have it idk.
i could do chkdisk? system restore? back to the 18th. which do i do? how many #does this 1394 have anyway?
retiredlearner
wouldnt doing chkdisk be better to do than sys restore?
guys thanks for helping, but what if this1394netadapter has 100s of #?and every day a new one. i await you wisdon and thank you so much.

 

Can you tell us the make and model of the speakers? Just wondering if they are speakers that use a firewire connection to the computer. That would be the only reason that firewire (1394) port would have anything to do with your sound.

Or, perhaps you know. Are the speakers connected to the computer using a firewire port on the computer? If so, the yellow exclamation mark you see next to the 1394 network adapter in device manager would be the source of your sound problem.

 

zander
speakers are plug in to sound card.
i dont have firewire(that i know about)
using usb keyboard,mouse, thats it.
monitor not usb of course
thats all i have besides modem and router
she is sort of stripped down

 

If your 1394 is built in to M/B and you don't use it, can you Disable it in BIOS. Cheers Neil.

 

retiredlearner
how do i get into bios?

 

On boot up it should tell you. Usually the F2 key. You have to keep tapping it as soon as you boot your PC. It will show you when you boot. You have to be pretty fast to catch it. I usually just start tapping the F key (which ever it may be) as soon as I power on the machine. You could try a check disc. System restore is usually a last resort. It is NOT a cure all. Life would be so much simpler if it was.
Not using the 1394 connection, it won't hurt anything to leave it alone in the Device Manager.

 

According to the specs for your computer it doesn't have firewire. Unless you've happened to add a sound card that has it on it. If not, I'd try disabling it in device manager, reboot and see what happens.

To disable it in device manager, right click on it and choose properties, then click on the driver tab and there will be a disable button there.

 

mrbill
i ran chk disk it came back clean,and when it restarted into windows i had sound.
thinking about it,if i restart computer sound stays. but if i shut down,when i start up i have no sound. like this morning on start up i had no sound. checked device manager and 1394 netadapter #4 was yellow!. i uninstalled it and restarted and still had no sound. i hope this helps.
zander
no firewire at all. thanks much.

 

Well, the problem I'm having here is you say you have no firewire but that's what that 1394 net adapter you're seeing in device manager is. It's a firewire connection and it shouldn't be there unless you either have an onboard 1394 controller, which your motherboard doesn't, or a sound card like the Sound Blaster Audigy.

I was thinking if you had such a sound card, there could be a connection between your sound problem and the yellow exclamation mark by the 1394 controller in device manager, even though your aren't using it for a speaker connection.

What kind of sound card do you have?