yellow exclaimation point in device manager

yeszander i think i have sound blaster audigy!
belarc lists a bunch of creative products.
i think it is sound blaster audigy,but im not sure.

 

have sound until i turn off the computer. what i have done to get sound back
device manager uninstalled sound ?f(wmd) then restarted computer. on restart windows found and did its thing.
sound just quit.

 

got sound again.
had to go to town and when i started up computer,i didnt bother with checking sound.
someone posted you tube i liked so i tried it. and it worked. sound is wishy washy
in post#22 sound just quit.
playing now. just dont know about this sound.

 

Is that listed under Multimedia?

 

i went to dell support found sound blaster audiby listed.but where,i dont remember.sorry.

 

Perhaps it's something as simple as opening the case and re-seating the the card. Might be just a bad connection. I guess if I was going to try something, that's where I'd start.

 

Sounds like your M/B may be at fault. (sorry about the pun)
You may have a bad circuit connection which is affected by heat.
Did you manage to get into BIOS? My comp gives DEL as entry to BIOS.
I don't know what Dell tell you to do - it usually depends on the Brand of BIOS. Cheers Neil.

 

Further to my Post #27:
Dell Dimension E510 (Pentium 4 630 3GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, XP Media Center 2005) (discontinued) Is this your machine?
If so, I found this in Techguys Forum:

win2kpro


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14-Feb-2011, 09:35 PM #3
All Dell machines that used BTX form factor motherboards had a high motherboard failure rate. Whenever I get a Dell machine in with a BTX form factor motherboard, the motherboard is the first item I suspect as being the problem.

Some Dell machines with BTX form factor boards also had a problem with these boards when using some ATI video cards. If your machine has an ATI video card I would try another video card or the onboard video to see if that solves the problem. If the problem is not the video card then my guess is that there is a 95% probability that the motherboard is defective.
Also, the specs said Audio was Sagatel built in. Neil.

 

retiredlearner got computer in oct of 05,replaced mb and power supply in 1-06. under warrenty then guy came down and did the work.
had ati,but its gone,with dells help,removed video card,and moved monitor over to i guess,on board.
i know that there is on board sound too,i just dont know how to make it work.
this sound now,i got it back at 4:16p and had it until i shut down at 9:23p. and no sound today. might have later like i did yesterday,who knows. funny thing on restarting dont bother the sound (knock on wood)
retiredlearner i hope that you and yours are okay and im sorry for the loses new zealand suffered.

 

i reseated sound card,started up and no sound.
i went into device manager uninstalled (wmd) restarted. no sound
and no sound in front with headphone jack
btw i found 1394 listed under commications according to my belarc.
and my board(listed under main circuit board) is dell ORD 203.
hope some of this helps

 

8:56est music back on. for how long i dont know but it playing an entire song.an another song has started.
anyone know where i can get microsoft kernel wave audio mixer
and sigmatif intergrated audio. seem to missing them according to whats in view "show "hidden files.

 

Have you tried pluging you speakers into the MOBO instead of the sound card? It should be up near where your USB and Keyboard and mouse plugs in.

 

mrbill
i got speakers connected to the m/b the intergrated sound connector,thats right above where dell told me to connect my monitor.
it seems to me that i had to remove my video card and she did some other things or had me do them,its been a while.
the computer been off since 11am took a nap. read your post and no sound.

 

mrbill the sound card is sound blaster audigy 2 zs. i found the disk. but dont think cd/dvd burner works,last time i tried it,it made a rumbling noise,i dont know why.
i connected speakers back to the sound card. got no sound at all on the intergrated either with speakers or headset.
did the uninstall of the creative audigy audio processor(wdm) and restarted.still no sound yet.

 

If your cd drive doesn't work and you want to try reinstalling drivers for the card, you can get them here.

 

zander do i download all of them?

 

You only need to download one of them. The top two are both drivers but different versions of the driver. The newest one is the first one in the list. That's the one I'd try if I was doing this. You're choice though. The file dates are listed there.

The bottom two downloads are applications that more than likely were on your install cd. You can download them if you want but they aren't necessary. They won't have any effect on the problem you're having. They are just extras. Some would call them goodies, others would call them bloat.

 

zander i downloaded the first on and the wavestudio(candy).
but for some reason creative didnt see any creative products attached to my computer?
but i have sound heard the windows theme.now will i have sound then i shut down then start back up? i hope so. so im going to shut down for about 30 mins then start up again. see you later,and thanks.

 

mrbill,retiredlearner,and zander.i have sound after being off for 30mins.
and i thank you all very much.
until next time
ill mark this episode solved
thanks so much.

 

OK. One more thought did come to me though. You say your sound works after rebooting but not after shutting down? It's not likely but since you have onboard sound and a sound card, perhaps the bios is getting things wrong after a shutdown which might point to a bad battery on the motherboard. Might not hurt to try putting a new one in it.

Like I said, it's not likely but those batteries are cheap and easy to replace. You don't have much to lose by trying it.