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I can hear again!

January 27, 2008

As I mentioned in this post, I held up Lynn Terry’s podcasting 101 webinar because I couldn’t hear the sound. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. I hated that feeling of screwing things up for the webinar as I was re-booting and messing around with my PC trying to hear again. But nothing worked. Thankfully Roy Montero was able to patch me in via telephone and all was well.

I spent time trouble shooting everything that could go wrong…

Made sure speakers were connected, on, and volume was up.

Checked device manager to ensure all sound options/sound card is enabled.

Checked on control panel to make sure nothing is on mute.

Ran the MS help program and all steps were fine.

And nothing no sound. I was thinking of taking it to the Geek Squad at nearby Best Buy.

Local Best Buy

But the PC is an old Dimension 8200 which I should replace (I do most of my stuff on my MacBookPro) so I didn’t want to spend $150+ to have them look at it. Plus whatever would they charge to fix it. So I decided to buy a $35 sound card at Best Buy instead.

I cracked open the PC box and swapped out sound cards and ta-da…I can hear again! I’ve never been happier to hear that Windows booting up sound when I re-started the computer.