Q: What is annoying is if i were to plug the 3 wires from the X-Fi Fatality card into the realtek onboard audio i can get sound when i press the test button, however there is no sound elsewhere. Now when i plug the wires into the sound card (X-FI) there is no sound not even for the sound test. My sounds were working perfectly yesterday and this morning when i booted up the computer there just was no sound. Can any of you help me please? System is running Windows Vista 64 bit edition. All my drivers are up to date on every piece of hardware. The hardware is appearing to be functional and detected in the hardware manager. So i'm completely out of ideas now. PS. Im not changing the OS as some people keep saying to others on here.
A: Run dxdiag. Select Sound tab to check which device and driver is being used by your PC. If it is Realtek integrated sound card, you could either try a system restore or just reinstall the X-Fi driver. If two Sound tabs appear, just disable the Realtek sound card. You can also test for sound in dxdiag.