how do I tell if my pc has internal speakers, and if so how do i turn them on?
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Providing you are not talking about a laptop, but a desktop...most internal speakers are only meant to make the beeps and clicks the system makes during start-up. Mainly for diagnostic purposes. You more than likely have one just for that purpose. If you want to hear music or whatever from your computer. The first question would be do you have a sound card, or an on-board sound processor. Seeing as you have a Dell, almost all Dells produced in the last 10 years have an on-board sound processor, unless specially ordered not to. You need to find the three jacks on the back of your PC which look like headphone jacks (one blue, one green, and the other pinkish/orange) They will also usually have a sticker or emblem next to them showing you which one is for audio-out, microphone, and audio-in. Plug in a pair of headphones, or external PC speakers (found at any electronics store) in to the jack with the audio-out emblem.
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Your sound card could be shot. Click on Start, then go to My Computer, and RIGHT click, choose Properties. A box will appear, choose the Hardware Tab, then Device Manager. This will show all the hardware in your computer. If there is a problem with the sound card, the icon will have a exclamation point (!) in a yellow triangle. If your sound device does or doesn't right click on it, and choose Update Drivers, hopefully it will find one if it's a driver problem. Say your having no luck, download this free program called Advanced Windows Care, hopefully that will fix it if it's a software thing. Lastly unplug your speakers and plug a headset in where the speakers are to see if can hear anything, to make sure the speakers aren't toast. Best of luck
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You will probably need the driver CD that came with either the sound card - motherboard if integral, or CD pack if a store bought made up system.\n\nDelete it from CONTROL PANEL- SYSTEM - Hardware, then reboot and have the CD ready when it says 'Found New Hardware'\n\nIf you haven't got it, message me with make and model of sound card
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Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sound\n\nTick the "show icon in taskbar" and you're done.
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Look at the power plug for your speakers, it should have the power rating on it.
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Control Panel/Sound (if there is such a thing on NT).Sounds like there are no drivers installed. Maybe they didn't make them for NT.
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START\n->CONTROL PANEL\n->SOUNDS AND MULTIMEDIA\n->SOUND EVENTS\n->START WINDOWS\n \nCHANGE TO SUIT URE NEEDS
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u can do it.check ur speakers, or reinstall driver.\nTell me it's first time when u have use this system or it is ur old pc. means upgrade ur PC.
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You're going to slap me for suggesting it, but check the following first:\n\n1. Go to the control panel, check sound.  Is it muted?  Is anything muted?\n2. Double check that the speaker is in the correct port, and not going through another device (speaker/headset splitter, etc) first.\n3. Make sure the card is seated properly.\n\nOnce you've done these, go to the control panel, then system, then hardware, then device manager and make sure the computer knows the card is present and installed.  Make sure it thinks it's running.\n\nGood luck.
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You won't be able to tell anything until it is turned on. Check all the drives and make sure they are working, the amount of memory, hard drive (check this in the BIOS). Listen for strange noises with the power supply fan, CPU fan and hard drive.
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Find out what the sound card is, go to www.driverguide.com
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If your PC has onboard sound, it may already be surround sound ready. Look at your mobo manual. If you dont have it, download it from the mfgs site.
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You need to install Audio drivers
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Either double click on the speaker in the system tray (by the clock) or go to Start -> Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices. Under the Volume tab uncheck the Mute box and click the first Advanced (higer up on the window). Look to see if any mute boxes are checked.
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Click on Start, Control Panel and Sounds. Select the Sounds tab. This gives you the current sounds the system is using. find the one for Windows start up then preview other sounds. when you find one you like, select it.
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Control panel, sound. Check the levels of the sound there.
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Did you check the basics? \n1) after you physically installed it, did Windows detect & install the drivers?\n2) did you plug your speakers into the correct jack, Soundblaster cards are marked with color coded jacks.\nHere are some "general" color codes.\n[black=rear speakers, green=front speakers, pink=microphone, blue=line-in, yellow=digital only]\nThe PCI-128 has only 3 jacks-blue, pink & green.\n3) are your speakers pluged in to an electric outlet\nAfter, you check those things, if no luck. You can email me, if you are not comfortable with the BIOS settings. Which would be where you need to go next, if you have integrated sound on your Motherboard