Thelma's PC...

[cyclops]

Anak, I'm glad to have stopped in and made what hope fully is a valuable contribution. Thanks for the gift you sent my way. I'll take it as a b-day gift from a SF Guru.
What part of PA are you from? I'm in Woodbridge, VA, 22 miles south of the land of idiots, aka, Washington DC, but my family is from Philly.

 

[thelma]

Hello Cyclops and Anak ,

Yes, I am still alive, no I have not cleaned jet because I don't have the stuff for it in the house. Thanks for your concern, I would have switched off and unplugged, but would not have taken out the battery.

What you are both talking about sounds interesting, although I don't have a clue what it is.

Anak, that grammar program you gave me is so good, it does not only correct wrong spelling but also comes up with better hole word suggestions, VERY CLEVER

I did re-install those two system drivers further down in the Device Manager, no change in the sound issue.

This sound problem is so weird because everywhere on this laptop I am being told that everything works fine

Don't you sleep there at all in your neck of the woods ?

 

[Brds7t7]

Good morning Thelma. Still no luck with the sound issues yet? I've noticed Anak's posts.
If it does turn out to be a hardware issue, your only option will be to take it to a repair shop. I'm assuming you don't really want to crank it open?

 

[cyclops]

Good morning All.
Thelma, I don't sleep much, I live with a bitch named insomnia.
I am new in your thread, and I am a stupid man, therefore I am always up for a fight.
I'm not going to be doing anything for hours and I want to wait for Anak to see that you are active before I step on his toes, especially since he has a lot more depth of knowledge with regard to what's been done already.
I'll be standing by.
What's cooking this morning? I like just about anything.

 

[thelma]

Cyclops, you are not a stupid man, you are a funny man.
You would LOVE a full Austrian breakfast Look it up on the web.

What is cooking this morning is an Update put out Yesterday by our dear friends at M$, which could well give a new record of users on Seven forums

 

[cyclops]

MMM! Sounds good. Where shall I sit and may I have a Victory Hop Devil India Pale Ale?

 

[thelma]

It's more a Strohrum ( 80 % ) here ...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh

 

[cyclops]

I'm back after sitting in the dark waiting for power to come back on. It looks like Anak may have gone to bed. It is 3 am here.
I think it would be best to wait for him/her, not sure, before I start suggesting things which have already been examined.
May I join you for that breakfast?
Just kidding, but it would be nice.

 

[thelma]

Hello Lee, I cranked it open once ( to clean the air filters ), what a job! Never again I hope!

And I was assisted by a friend ( you need 4 hands sometimes), and we had the Y-tube video next to it on exactly my laptop model. Frightening: rolleyes:

 

[Brds7t7]

Hello Lee, I cranked it open once ( to clean the air filters ), what a job! Never again I hope!

And I was assisted by a friend ( you need 4 hands sometimes), and we had the Y-tube video next to it on exactly my laptop model. Frightening: rolleyes:

Definitely a pain in the backside.

It seems to be pointing to hardware though. Is it still under warranty?

 

[thelma]

Are you joking Lee, it is from the middle ages 2010

 

[Brds7t7]

:roflmao:

One of my PC's is a Dell from 2007 and it still runs like a champ. Only thing I've had to replace on it was the DVD drive a few years ago.
It actually runs better than my friends brand new PC from this year!

 

[Anak]

You guys move too fast for me, I can't keep up, but I'll try to answer your questions later.

:focus:

Thelma,

Open an elevated command prompt and either type, copy and paste this exactly as shown where the blinking cursor is, those are single spaces between the operators dir /s /b c:

[I]dir /s /b c:\Windows\audiodg.exe[/I]

Then tap the enter or return key. you'll hear your machine working for a bit and you should see seven (7) entries like this:



Do you see any, all or none?


Off topic in the order I seen them:
I'm from Harrisburg, PA, but live about 10 miles Northeast of there in Cumberland county.

• I'm happy you like the grammar program and it is working well for you.

• That's why I need you to run the search above to see if you have any audiodg.exe files left on your machine, malwarebytes (mbam) has a nasty habit of removing them.

• I get about 4 or 5 hours a night. Woke up with a crick in my neck of the woods.

• When you and your friend cleaned those filters, were you careful not to knock anything loose, was the cleaning around the time you lost the sound??

You can step away, just let me know so I can move my foot.

If it is hardware what other than the plug do you suggest?

Yea, I have 15 new updates to scrutinize. Cooking? did someone say cooking?

Pale Ale, Strohrum's? I like my Scotch, but will take a guinness stout or bass ale.

Power out? yea, I was in bed, we had a slight chance for showers/ T-showers, but it turned out only moderate showers this morning.


Later.....Will be busy for the next few days, a good neighbor friend of 36years passed on Tuesday he was 86, will be going over to help the widow, funeral on Saturday.

When it rains it pours, eh thelma?


Clear skies everyone,

Steve

 

[thelma]

Hello, Anak , The boss and Thread Starter to give me great help as you always do!

No, the clean was done a long time later and we were extremely carefull.

I am no going to perform this elevated Prompt and let you know what will be produced, hopefully 7 entries

Thanks Steve,

 

[thelma]

Ok, here the results: Files not Found

The first time it took about 5 minutes to come whit the result.

The second time ( I did it twice to rule out my dyslexia ) it took about one minute.

Is this bad or very bad ? :huh:

Mind you, a laptop with two speakers hanging on is not the end of the world, there are more serious things in live, like losing a dear friend, sorry to hear that Steve.

 

[cyclops]

Good afternoon Sunshine, aka Anak. Sorry to know you lost a friend, drink a scotch for him.
You missed breakfast, I'm still getting the flavor out of my mustache.
Harrisburg ya say, well you better heal before old man winter pays a visit.
I stayed pretty busy while you slumbered. I pretty much put together a tutorial for newbies for a guy who is suffering fromwhat M$ can't seem to stop screwing up. Maybe you can look it over when your eyes are open and give me some feed back on the content and layout.

I pulled an od Compaq lappy off a shelf a little while ago, it's got XP so I don't think it's going to do me much good trying to helping thelma.
I do have several sets of earbuds and a very nice pair of Sony headphones which I seldom use. Maybe I should take them over there and see if we can make a deal for a dinner and some drinks?

 

[thelma]

Just thinking out loud, I did this test with the external spacers plugged in, should I take them away first perhaps ? Will this influence the result given ?

 

[cyclops]

I'll try that on my lappy and be back in a few

 

[cyclops]

This lappy is hung up on something right now, may need a hard powerdown and start over, POS

 

[cyclops]

Headphones plugged in kills the lappy speakers over here where one never knows what's going to work