The ISO idea would help to test the hardware.
I'm not Win7 saavy (and don't care to be) but you may want to look into
reinstalling or updating the sound driver. I'm sure there are guides to this
on the googles. Windows might try to auto detect and reinstall a new copy of
the one you have or find a new one for you on the internet. If the hardware is
unknown it may not be easy.
For the scan line, that could also be a driver issue or the monitor (crt, I
assume?) is going bad. Or maybe the refresh rate is off in Windows. You
could try some of the reset stuff on the monitor menu, degauss, etc.
-PJ
> From: mpless@ucsd.edu
> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 20:48:16 -0700
> To: cavanadd@frontier.com
> CC: shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Computer sound problem
>
> It's possible that it's a Windows problem. To confirm one way or the other
> you can boot from a Linux "live CD" (I use knoppix but there are others,
just
> google "Linux live CD") and see if you have sound. The general idea is to
> download a Linux live CD ISO image, burn it to a CD or DVD, and boot from
it,
> without touching your Windows installation.
>
> --Marcus
>
> Sent from my phone
>
> > On Jun 6, 2014, at 7:03 PM, Dave Cavanaugh <cavanadd@frontier.com> wrote:
> >
> > Last year I assembled a budget tower system from Newegg to replace an
aging
> HP system with a bad HDD. I would provide a link to the motherboard but
for
> some reason Newegg won't let me see my 2013 order history. It will show
2012
> and 14 just fine but not 2013...
> >
> > Anyway, the sound quit. The little speaker icon in the lower right hand
> corner of the screen (Win 7) has a red and white x on it and when you put
the
> mouse pointer it says the headphones or speakers are not plugged in, which
> they are. I have tried two different sets of speakers through both the
front
> and rear jacks. I even bought a little USB dongle with speaker and mic
jacks
> on the front, but that doesn't work, either. Should I get a cheap sound
card
> and try that? Any other suggestions? This is an inexpensive motherboard
with
> all the sound, video, etc, all on the main board. This is the first time I
> have messed around with computer guts since the old XT/AT days when you got
> add-on cards for just about everything.
> >
> > Another feature is an annoying scan line that goes up across the display
> about every two seconds or so. It's not real obvious, but annoying.
> >
> > And no, I can't find the documentation from the computer stuff. Only that
it
> was some kind of AMD quad core processor. I can find ALL of the
documentation
> for the Seequa Chameleon I bought in 1982, but not for the computer I
bought
> last year...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave
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