my pc has no sound?

[freyedknot]

says device not found??? do i have the wrong speakers for my pc using emachines speakers on a dell tower.?

[MassillonBuckeye]

Doubtful. Most speakers jsut use a standard 1/8th Mini DIN connection. The "device" its referring to is your actual sound card. Did you recently reload the system software on the machine? If not, there is a pretty good chance your sound card has gone bad. Physically. You could go buy a cheapie sound card($10-15) and install it. Or get someone to look at it and diagnose.

[Bass_Hawg]

Windows update is also pretty good about installing a driver that screws something up. If you just recently did a windows update and under optional updates you selected a driver install for your sound card that could be the problem. In Device manager is there a yellow exclamation point or red circle where your sound card hardware is??? if so you may be able to do a driver roll back to get it working again. Feel free to click on my sig and give me a call and I will help you over the phone if I can.....