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No Sound Please Help!

#1 daffsbro

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 10:53 PM

Hey I have a Dell Dimension 8400 Sounds not working. No Speaker Icon in the bottom Right.
I went to Control Panel > Sound > Sounds and Audio It says No Audio Device and It wont let me change any thing...

No Idea... Please help!

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#2 daffsbro

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:01 PM

First person to help me wins to bad we cant give prizes over the forum

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:03 PM

Looks like the driver is not installed. What is the service tag number for this machine?

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#4 daffsbro

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:06 PM

Theres no service tag on it

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:11 PM

It probably wont say service tag. On the back, it is a plain white tag, with a

BARCODE

xxxxxxx

BARCODE

setup.

If you can find this, you must go to dell help and support http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...;l=en&s=gen

and enter your service tag number or have the dell applet look it up and then do a driver search.

To have the dell site look it up, click the enter service tag number button, then you will be able to click the Look up my service tag number. This only works in Internet Exploder.

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:14 PM

Theres the windows sticker with the OME key and so on
and theres some white sticker inside with
This is what it looks like

llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll bar code
numbers and letters
lllllllllllllllll bar code
REV A02
MADE IN CHINA

#7 oldf@rt

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:16 PM

That is the one!! Should only be 7 numbers and letters.

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#8 daffsbro

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:17 PM

There are these two do you know which one to download?

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...p;fileid=122481

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...p;fileid=119882

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:43 PM

This is the standard sound chip for onboard sound: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...p;fileid=122481

this is what a slot cover looks like: http://www.welovemacs.com/bcbracket.html

if your sound plug in is in place of one of those, you have the Creative labs audigy go here http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

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