sound problemsForum: Multimedia Topic: sound problems started by: simplebob Posted by simplebob on Sep. 04 2005,11:43
i just moved my computer down stairs every thing seemed to go well with the moving part, no hard blows were encountered. but, there were all kind of problems when i turned it on. previous to moving my computer was able to play sound. now, after the move, i am having sound issues.at first when i started the computer, for reasons unknown, the kernel went in to panic. i had ran into this sometimes before using other flavours of linux. so i just turned the computer off and killed all the power it took a couple of tries but i finally got it to start up. the BIOS was complaining about the cpu being unrecognized, so i went in and changed it to 300Mhz 'cause thats what it is. i had some minor other issues while doing this all of which i seemed to have fixed. now, my question is, how can i check to see if the sound card is in fact being detected? a couple of times when i was able to start X i went in and tried to play some MP3's and i would either sound plugin not configured, or something is blocking it or nothing at all. i have seen that before with Red Hat. but, even when it did it with Red Hat i was able to get it to work by just clicking on the MP3 again. does any one have any idea what trouble shooting i can do to get this back up and running? i tried two other sound cards and with no avail. i tried lsmod to see if there was a sound card there and the only thing that came close was:
could the BIOS have something to do with this problem? -- Time sure flies when you don't know what you're doing? Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 04 2005,21:49
It sounds like the little backup battery for your BIOS went dead.When you left your computer unplugged for a little while, it probably reset all of your BIOS settings back to their factory defaults. My advice is to try playing around with the various BIOS settings until you see an improvement. |