Computer question

[trekkiebabe 0]

This morning the sound on my pc was working fine (at about 7 am CST),but now the only sound coming out of my speakers is a loud sort of "white noise".Even when I try and use headphones,that white noise hisses out of the 'phones,too.Anybody know what the problem might be?

I'd hate to think it was something major...

Because I like listening to Cd's while I'm doing work,and browsing for movie clips.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

Did you install anything? Have you rebooted the computer since the problem started (Sometimes mine does the same thing but rebooting fixes it).

[Captain Holland 0]

Did you restart it? If you did I don't know what to tell you but to try to unplug them and plug them in again. If that don't work you might want to take it to a computer repair shop.

[Goose 0]

Stardate:213879.8

 

 

Have you played anything real loud on your speakers.If so its possible you could of blown your speakers as well.Hopefully though that isnt the case

[trekzone 0]

that happened to me, and ah......the motherboard had cinders on it....the sound blew up

[cptwright 1]

could be possibly if nothing else works your sound card is toast. if so you can get one reasonbly cheap im sure.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

I was informed that this was actually resolved by rebooting the computer.

[cptwright 1]

good, its always nice to not have to spend money. lol

[Red Shirt Volunteer 0]

<_< Ha ha ha. I just changed my boot screen and login screen and all my machine does right now is boot. Then reboot. Again and again, automatically just before the login screen appears. Doh!

 

P.S. I'm writing this from work.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

<_< Ha ha ha.  I just changed my boot screen and login screen and all my machine does right now is boot.  Then reboot.  Again and again, automatically just before the login screen appears.  Doh!

 

P.S.  I'm writing this from work.

Windows 98 or XP?

[Red Shirt Volunteer 0]

OK, it's XP Home but I've fixed it. Luckily I'm big into backing stuff up and have an extra drive that I use purely for this purpose. I changed the master and slave drives and booted up the back-up copy of XP, then swapped the files I'd changed back the originals. Only to about 10 or 15 minutes to crack it open, switch the HDs and overwrite the new files in safe mode then swap back the drives and put it back in place. In case your wondering, I just got tired of the Windows XP boot screen and the login screen and changed the following files to some cooler pics:

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\logonui.exe [for the login]

 

and

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe [for the boot screen]

 

Apparently, Windows XP updates often change the version of the latter and if the one you replace it with isn't identical, well, let's just say you want it to be identical. All good now.

 

Not sure why I put this here, but it seemed to make sense to keep it in a computer problem thread.