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My Sound Card is really screwed up. It was working fine until a few weeks ago, when I put in a new keyboard. From then on, whenever I use an application that uses sound, a message pops up that says something like "No Sound Card Detected. Program will proceed without Sound."

When I go to the Control Panel and click on "Audio and Sound Devices", it says "No Audio Device". I'm using Windows XP. I think my Sound Card is made by SiS, but I'm not sure, it could be made by another company. If you need more info about my computer, just tell me! HELP MUCH MUCH APPRECIATED!!!

---Zac

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A compact troubleshooting checklist, building on 's point about resource interaction and 's comment about SiS cards. The symptom — Control Panel showing "No Audio Device" after adding a keyboard — can come from three places: physical/hardware, Windows services/drivers, or BIOS/resource settings. The steps below are ordered to isolate the problem with minimal risk.

Power-down checks

  • Remove the recently added keyboard and cold-boot. A quick removal isolates whether the new device affects enumeration.
  • Power down, reseat the sound card and speaker cable or try a different PCI slot. Physical faults or a poor contact often look like driver problems.
  • If the system has onboard audio, verify the motherboard BIOS setting (enabled/disabled) so the OS is looking at the expected device.

Windows diagnostics and driver workflow

  • Open Device Manager (devmgmt.msc). Check "Sound, video and game controllers" and "Other devices" for yellow icons or missing entries. In a device's Properties -> Details -> Hardware Ids, copy any VID_/PID_ strings to identify the vendor/device.
  • Run dxdiag and check the Sound tab to see what DirectX sees.
  • Ensure the Windows Audio service (use services.msc) is running and set to Automatic.
  • If a broken driver is suspected, uninstall the audio device (choose to remove driver files if prompted) and reboot so Windows can attempt redetection. Prefer drivers from the motherboard/sound-card vendor that match the hardware IDs rather than guessing with generics.

Deeper tests and caution

  • Booting a Linux live USB will show whether the hardware itself is visible to a non-Windows OS; if Linux detects audio, the fault is almost certainly driver/Windows-side.
  • Use System Restore to a point before the keyboard install if convenient.
  • Avoid installing multiple competing audio packages. Back up important data and create a restore point before driver/registry changes.

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Member Avatar for Thong_Ispector

Is your new keyboard USB?
You may have a hardware IRQ conflict.
Have you deleted any sound drivers found in the device manager then run the add new hardware wizard

Member Avatar for jbennet

SIS cards tend to be iffy. I ahve 3 and only 1 works, UNIX and NT type systems seem to hate them

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