manny is correct. When deleting a device you are not deleting the driver files. Often letting Windows re-install them fixes a lot of problems.
________________________________ From: manny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 5:28 PM To: John Riehl; gwmicro list Subject: Re: problem with speech loss on soundblaster card Hi John, I have 31 years experience with fixing computers. This is one of my favorite tricks for fixing device problems. The way it works is that sometimes files get corrupt, and by deleting the device and rebooting, the computer reactivates the device and installs fresh software and drivers. Good luck, Manny checkout my stand-up comedy performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fbevlz10g computer specifications: Window Eyes 8 Dell xps420 with 8 gb memory c p u: Intel q6600 quad core dual boot between Windows 7 64-bit and windows 8 64 bit all software and drivers are up to date On 3/14/2013 7:21 PM, John Riehl wrote: I don't understand why this would fix the soundblaster problem since I'm deleting soundblaster. From: manny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 7:00 AM To: John Riehl; gwmicro list Subject: Re: problem with speech loss on soundblaster card Hi John, If you have not deleted sound blaster from your computer, I would try that first. I would go to device manager tab once press s until you hear sound arrow right once then arrow down to sound blaster and press delete then press OK or yes to continue then reboot your computer If it still does not work email me off list and I'll give it another shot. Good luck, Manny checkout my stand-up comedy performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fbevlz10g computer specifications: Window Eyes 8 current version Dell xps420 with 8 gb memory c p u: Intel q6600 quad core dual boot between Windows 7 64-bit and windows 8 64 bit all software and drivers are up to date On 3/14/2013 3:24 PM, John Riehl wrote: I have a Windows-7 professional computer with the latest versions of Windoweyes and Kurzweil-1000. Here's the problem: I'm using a Creative Labs Soundblaster Z sound card. Everything was working fine until my Soundblaster started crackling - all sounds, not just speech. The crackling would go away for a while when I did a restart, then come back again. My computer tech guru switched my sounds (including speech) from the Soundblaster to the on-board sound (the chip on the motherboard) and things were fine; no crackling.. He found out that Creative Labs had issued a driver on March 1st for the Soundblaster-Z card which fixes the crackling problem. Unfortunately, when he downloaded and installed the driver, all speech - both for Windoweyes and K1000 - went away. All other windows sounds are working fine. Just no speech; no synthesizers work. We rolled back the drivers to the previous version and restarted; still no speech. We've gone back to the onboard sound - everything works fine. Has anybody got any suggestions re what's causing this problem and how to fix it? Thanks. John Riehl __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 8118 (20130314) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
