Why doesnt my sound work!?!? (in Off-topic)

I have recently reformated my windows xp. I have reinstalled all the drivers i have. My speakers worked before the operation but now they dont. So that rules out them not being connected.

I need help! Please no stupid comments like "duh, it's a windows".

Thanks for reading this at least. =D

Stupid question, slightly on topic, but... CB has sound!?

Im not referring to cb, im talking about music on my hardrive. Nothing works, exept for system sounds :(

Go to Control Panel >> System >> Hardware >> Device Manager >> Sound, video and game controllers - See if there are any notifications and, if there are, try to fix it from here

Nope, nothing that i can see. All my devices are "Working properly".

"system sounds" what do you mean by this, like BIOS beeps (the startup noises) or do you mean the windows system sounds?

I mean the bios beeps. Nothing out of the speakers, just that static noise whenever i took out and placed it back into my sound card. No actual sounds come out of the speakers.

Also i have just recently found that when i have my creative system volume menu up on the screen and i clicked on the Defualt button. You can hear the music for a split second then it stops.

Dont know if that helps.

Well I'd start with attempting to upgrade my sound drives to the latest from creative, then find every volume control I can and make sure they are all up (windows has gotten better about having one place to adjust volume, but I'm not sure it's perfect yet)

Are you sending an analogue signal to your digital speakers, or vice versa?

You mean do i have it in the input or the output?

It is in line out jack. I have also ran a diagnostics test. Says everything passed. I am thinking somewhere it is on mute, i have searched everthing and cant find anything on mute.

As i have said before though, i havent removed the cords in the back or in the speakers. They worked before the format.

You may have a digital out and an analogue out. The sound card may have a property to send out to one or the other.

Stephen if he didn't unplug anything, it's unlikely that the reformat did it for him...

I am uninstalling it, goign to see if my standard sound on the mother board will work. Maybe i can find something from there on.

Ill keep you guys updated

Au contraire. I had a sound card that, every time I updated the driver, reset from digital to analogue output.

OK, so it works with my motherboard sound card! wewt!

Anyway, stephen. How would i go about changing it digital? I have searched everywhere for the mute thing, and i dont recall ever seeing that option.

For me it installed another config program in the Control Panel for setting up the surround sound, and on one of the tabs it had a small checkbox that got me every damn time!

lol, well it turns out that once i reinstalled the updated drivers that i had downloaded everything works again. That was weird and im not sure why i didnt just do thta to begin with.

Thanks for helping me think a little bit more about it. :)