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Recent content by John Horne

  1. J

    No sound after system reset

    Went back into BIOS and followed all options but no sign of optimise defaults.....the only place I didnt go was command line prompt
  2. J

    No sound after system reset

    ah ok .......yes Im getting more and more lost.....lol so does that mean I should try restoring the MB's factory default settings now ? how would I do that ?
  3. J

    No sound after system reset

    Hi Phill, as far as I know it was a full factory reset as in ......settings.......update and security.......recovery..........reset this PC........remove everything
  4. J

    No sound after system reset

    Found nothing in BIOS related to "audio".....nothing to enable.......... I restored it to factory settings the other day and thats what caused the problem but I'll do it again if you think there was some sort of glitch the first time ......Im assuming a factory reset will restore the MB's...
  5. J

    No sound after system reset

    Thanks Phil, going to take a look in BIOS now.
  6. J

    No sound after system reset

    There is nothing listed for Realtek under sound, video and game controllers........there are 3 items listed as follows.......the "intel display audio" has the most recent drivers......the "NVIDIA high deffinition audio" has the most recent drivers....... the "audio device on high deffinition...
  7. J

    No sound after system reset

    uhhh ok this is something new, when I open "system" and go to "sounds" under choose your output device it says "no output device found" and the dropdown list is empty. Then I clicked on "manage sound devices" and both output and input devices are disabled with no way to enable them that I...
  8. J

    No sound after system reset

    Thank you, I downloaded/instaled the drivers for chipset and audio, the vga drivers gave an error message (your PC does not meet minimum standards) Still no sound, I'm still getting the same error saying nothing is plugged in.
  9. J

    No sound after system reset

    Hope I get this right......... http://speccy.piriform.com/results/NMRr4rPccz53r7DaeFbh5X0
  10. J

    No sound after system reset

    Hi vger and thank you but the there is no device marked with a red X in device manager, the red X is only on the main screen icon for the speakers. In device manager I have 3 items under "sound.video and game controllers" which are......audio device on high deffinition audio bus (no drivers...
  11. J

    No sound after system reset

    Hi everyone, Ive just done a factory reset on a desktop PC which was built up from parts by my Son. It was working perfectly but bursting with "gaming" stuff which I dont want. I tried it before the reset and all was good, including my own speakers and headset, now neither my speakers or...
  12. J

    My DVD drive has dissappeared

    Thanks for all the help guys but I still cant get it working, I'm running out of time as I have audio documents on CD that I need details from. I ordered an external USB drive so hopefully I can get it done this week. Thanks again.
  13. J

    My DVD drive has dissappeared

    Yes, I have "show all files" selected, all it shows is Windows C, Recovery Image D, and disconnected network drive A (which is part of my anti ransomware tool). Going to try a different data cable port this morning.
  14. J

    My DVD drive has dissappeared

    I only took the restore point back a few days. The drive shows up in disk management. I'm ok with going inside so I'll try the data cable in another port. thank you.
  15. J

    My DVD drive has dissappeared

    Hi and thank you, Im on a desktop running windows 8.1, when I followed the tutorial I uninstalled the dvd drive, then "scan for hardware changes", the drive was supposed re-appear but it didnt, I then rebooted but it was still missing from device manager and missing from "this PC". I did a...