No audio on PC

A minor issue I'll grant, but I would like the audio on my pc to work (no separate speakers right now).

The audio stopped working recently when I updated drivers via SlimDrivers software.

I THINK I need to understand which audio software is the basic setup, and use that (PERHAPS deleting the others)

PC is XP SP3

Any ideas?

 

If you have system restore on, I would revert to right before you did that.

Also, SlimDrivers of late seems to be popular, but I found it buggy and completely slowing down my computer. I recommend getting rid of it. doesn't take that many clicks to get into device manager and update drivers.

 

I never trust driver update software and never update anything unless I have to due to a new problem and the driver change log addresses that particular issue. Main reasoning here is 'If it ain't broke...'.

Do the restore.

 

Have ye tried rolling back drivers?

The following is just an example. In the first picture, right click the device in device manager.

 

Thank you all for the ideas.

Having looked thru this Device Manager, I can't see that any of the drivers are dated recently.....but on my other computer I solved this same audio problem by rolling back the audio update in SlimDrivers.... so I'm confused....

BTW, I thought SlimDrivers was a kool idea, and each of my computers (3) had 3-6 drivers out of date that Microsoft hadn't taken care of....but maybe the program (and idea) have significant downsides.

....still looking for the answer here...

 

I've found that on a rare occasion, the MS drivers do work, but I do agree, the preferred method is what plodr suggested.

 

I thank you all for your input - I learned a few things.

BTW, I don't think I gave an accurate description of my issue. This computer was hooked to exterior speakers before about 9 months ago. Then, until about 2 weeks ago, my audio was via the internal speaker (music, youtube, movies, whatever....per internet surfing, apparently some people don't think that internal speakers work for music, but mine did, albeit low low quality...).

Now, no audio.

I have been dealing with cleaning out malware, so at various times turned off system restore, so that's not a resource.

At this point I have bigger fish to fry with another PC, so I'm just going to either a. drop this quest, b. get cables and hookup my monitor for audio, or c. get my exterior speakers out of storage.

Thank you all again.

 

Another thing to do is to uninstall your audio drivers from appwiz.cpl (add/remove programs). Then install the drivers for your mobo (motherboard).