Physical failures in an on-board sound card can degrade the quality of your computer's audio output in degrees ranging from nagging feedback to complete failure. However, you aren't locked into your ...

The sound on your computer or laptop is controlled by a sound card and sound-card driver software. This sound card may be a standalone card installed in an expansion slot or an onboard card built into ...

Getting sound configured in Linux can be a nightmare. Rescue is on the way in the form of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Jim McIntyre is here to walk you through installing and configuring ...

Dedicated sound cards may be far less prevalent than they were in the early days of PC gaming but they haven’t disappeared completely. If you grew up building your own gaming computers, Creative and ...

Lately, despite my setting in the Device Manager, where I've disabled it, every time I update my Nvidia drivers, it enables Nvidia HD Audio again and this occasionally wreaks havoc. Last night I was ...

When it comes to configuring that new notebook computer, you have a lot of options to choose from. Everything from the screen size, processor, graphics, memory and hard drive can be optimized to fit ...

The other day, I received a strange error – No Audio Output Device is Installed on my new HP laptop recently. I saw it when I hovered my cursor over the sound icon ...