Something wrong with my z96j

I am having problems with my sound. Sometimes when I click the volume control it says there are no sound devices installed even though some sound does work. I tried restarting and the sound card does show up on the volume control, but now, about an hour after restarting it says I dont have a sound device and my AIM sound and sound that is embedded in IE doesnt work. Whats up? Should I reinstall the sound drivers? Can someone point me to the most up-to-date version?

 

So you get sound in some programs but not others? if that is the case you have to backtrack and figure out where and how you changed the sound settings. Did you try to install any after market drivers or codecs? if its not the case are you saying that when you get this message there is no sound anywhere anyhow? or just some programs?

 

It says there is no sound hardware, but Winamp, Itunes, WMP works,but AIM and embedded sound in sites doesnt. I havent done anything to chance the sound settings. All I did before this started popping up was accidentally put it on standby.

 

Sounds like a software issue. If you cant find a reason when and why it started doing it you may have to reinstall. If it doesnt go away after a restart you dont really have a choise. Try to revert to an earlier time if you can. I am guessing it was not always like this?

 

It wasnt. I tried to restore but it said it couldnt.

 

well uninstall the sound drivers, restart, reinstall from driver CD that came with your notebook...

insane

 

This is weird... The very same thing happened to me the other day.

I have a Z96Js, as well. And after leaving the computer on for 8 hours (I was downloading something), it said that I didn't have any sound devices installed.

I restarted the computer, and it resolved the problem.

 

However, I still wonder if there is something wrong with certain types of sound drivers.


Also, the laptop once did not come back from standby.

When I pressed the power button, couldn't see anything on the screen (although the HDD was working). I had to manually power it down and restart.

 

Heartbreaker, did you try closing the lid and opening it again when you had no display? There was a post about this recently, and I know that it fixes the no display issues for me. That way you don't need to power down and restart in some cases to get back the display.

Hope that helps,

 

I wonder are you using the Cat 6.9?

 

CCZ Cataphract, thanks for the info.

I will do so and see if that resolves the issue.

So far, I really really like my Z96Js. It is super fast with T7200, 2GB DDR2 RAM
and 7200 rpm HDD.

 

I had a similar issue happen to me. One day, after turning it off from stand by, my sound was all gargly and garbage sounding. Though it was maybe my equalizer or something, but nothing seemed to work. Just do a complete uninstall of your sound drivers and reinstall them, worked for me.

 

So, I read around that there is a specific order that the drivers must be installed (for Z96j), that if you don't install the audio first, most of the time, wont work. So reinstall the OS, and start with the audio drivers when is done.

 

So are you saying that the issue won't go away, even if I uninstall and reinstall the sound drivers without uninstalling Windows?

That sucks.

Because I'm still having this problem, and can't afford to do that.

Isn't there an easier fix?

 

I actually just installed the latest sound drivers last night to see if it fixes the short freeze problem I've been having on my system. Those drivers were only released 2 weeks ago, so they wouldn't have been around when everything in this thread was posted, and there might be some kind of fix there.

Can't say it'll help, but it doesn't hurt to try. The version I upgraded to is v. 1.61

Cat

P.S. It was the Video Camera drivers for the BisonCam that I heard was the one affected by the order you install it, none of the others have that problem from what I've read, and I've upgraded/newly installed my sound, video card, wireless, bluetooth and a few other drivers as well since then and I've only ever had my original XP install from September on this machine.