{"id":7659,"date":"2004-07-11T20:59:31","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/11\/what-to-do-if-your-soundcard-stopped-working\/"},"modified":"2005-04-20T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T09:05:36","slug":"what-to-do-if-your-soundcard-stopped-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/11\/what-to-do-if-your-soundcard-stopped-working\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if your soundcard stopped working"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040711-soundblaster.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/thumb-20040711-soundblaster.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>Recently, I&#8217;ve got few electricity related things at my house go boom-boom, so I wasn&#8217;t very much surprised when the sound card stopped working in the machine I use to watch DVDs.  With TV dying in the next few days I safely assumed that sucker burned my sound too.  So, I&#8217;ve called up my brother who saved me with a spare card.<\/p>\n<p>After I plugged thew new card in, I found out that it doesn&#8217;t work too.  I&#8217;ve checked all the wires and stuff and was puzzled by the fact that software seemed to be playing sounds OK, it&#8217;s just I couldn&#8217;t hear them.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that that computer has another sound card built-in into the motherboard.  And after a reboot that I didn&#8217;t noticed it suddenly started to use that card.  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