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A few weeks ago I decided, in a fit of enthusiasm, to speed up my PC. The software I used stripped the driver from my onboard sound and rendered my computer silent other than the odd 'bip' when I press the wrong button.
I improved the shining hour this weekend by trying to get to the bottom of why it didn't work. This has driven me into the depths of the BIOS (which looks like no other BIOS I've ever encountered) and to distant websites to download the chipset drivers for the motherboard. For it is onboard sound, not a soundcard. I don't want a soundcard as that will mean me sitting on the floor, and anyway I don't think I have a slot left for one.
Even given all this, my computer is as silent as ever.
I give up. It'll have to stay silent until it is replaced, and who knows when that will be? Because I refuse to replace a perfectly good computer just because the sound doesn't work.
In other news
I turned up two pairs of trousers that were too long. I bought them weeks ago, but never got around to it, and replaced two buttons. I still have one button to go.
I improved the shining hour this weekend by trying to get to the bottom of why it didn't work. This has driven me into the depths of the BIOS (which looks like no other BIOS I've ever encountered) and to distant websites to download the chipset drivers for the motherboard. For it is onboard sound, not a soundcard. I don't want a soundcard as that will mean me sitting on the floor, and anyway I don't think I have a slot left for one.
Even given all this, my computer is as silent as ever.
I give up. It'll have to stay silent until it is replaced, and who knows when that will be? Because I refuse to replace a perfectly good computer just because the sound doesn't work.
In other news
I turned up two pairs of trousers that were too long. I bought them weeks ago, but never got around to it, and replaced two buttons. I still have one button to go.