Or any kind of sound device that would enable me to hear Real Player or Windows Media? Here's the situation. I just got a new computer at work. I installed Real Player and it works fine but I can't hear anything. Same thing for Windows Media Player. I went to Control Panal-Multimedia-Devices-Audio Devices and it said "There are no devices of this class installed in your system." Is there someplace I can go to find and download one and if so, which one should I download to play Real Player? I can't work without my Phil Hendrie audio, ya savvy?
Sounds like the NICK BURNSes of your office don't want you to have any counter-productive devices/cards/etc. on your machine. After all, you don't really need a sound card. I take that back, you need one if you are going to play Bill Lumberg's "Uhhhhh... we seem to have a little problem here" everytime your boss sends you an email, like ME. Don't tell me they gave you speakers? If they did and didn't include a soundcard, they fooled you my friend.
Edit: I got sidetracked and ended up doing the wrong thing there... If you have a "My Computer" icon on your desktop, right click that and select "Properties." If not, go to "Control Panel" and make sure it's in classic view (applies only in XP). Do so by looking directly to the left of the icons in the control panel windwow and seeing if it says "Switch to Classic View" or "Switch to Category View". Once in Classic View, go to "System." Then go to the "Hardware" tab and select "Device Manager." In that list, there should be a category called "Sound, video and game controllers." According to what you saw earlier, there shouldn't be anything listed there. And if that's the case, try right clicking that category and selecting "Scan for Hardware Changes." If that doesn't produce anything, or if that category doesn't even exist, then you probably don't have a soundcard in your computer and thusly can't get any sound on that particular one until it gets a physical card for that.
/\ /\ /\ Listen to Dallas above. A soundcard is a physical device, like a video card. If there isn't one installed on that computer, no driver download will really apply. Don't know if there's anyway to do anything with just software.
OK, I clicked on System (I'm in Windows 98) but theres not a "hardware" tab. The only tab is "hardware profiles" and it just has a profile listed. No "device manager". I'm pretty sure I have a soundcard. It's a brand new computer and my IT guy said all he has to do is install a device, but who knows when he'll make his way up here. That's why I'm trying to find one and install it myself.
Man..Windows 98.... Trying to remember how to get to the hardware devices in 98... Try a Google search for 'device manager in Windows 98' ima. It should have one as well, just don't remember how to get there.
It's a new computer with Windows 98 installed??? What kind of idiots are running your IT department??
There aren't 4 tabs across the top of System Properties that say ~ General, Device Manager, Hardware Profiles, Performance (in that order)
Tried that too in my first post. I just get "There are no devices of this class installed in your system."
I think you have alot of people confused. Are you not getting ANY sound at all from your PC? or only when your playing video files in WMP/RP? If your not receiving any sound at all, its a driver problem. If your not receiving any sound during movie files, its a codec problem. If its a codec problem, I would suggest downloading the mastroska pack.
Sorry kiddo - if you have no idea if you have a sound card in that box, or the name brand of the sound card (if you have one), you're better off waiting for the IT guy. You really should ONLY install drivers for the correct device when you find out what sound card you have. If it's not listed in Windows, you're going to have to find out the specs of the comp or open it up to get the model number of the sound card.
Is there a place on the back of the computer to plug in speakers? This is the back of the computer: This is the front:
