There are many reasons why there might be no sound coming from your computer at all and they can range from many different things that might include problems that are hardware and software. The Realtek AC97 Driver is the mainstay of many products and motherboards on the market because it represents a cheap and good way to outfit a motherboard or a pre built computer with good sound technology. While it is not in the top end of the market, it is there as a dependable and cheap source of sound for any computer.

There could be a number of reasons why there is no sound coming from your computer and when you are looking at this, we can look at the hard ware as a problem. For one thing the CMOS set up on your bios could have accidentally turned the audio chip on your motherboard off and this is why you have no sound coming from your computer at all and the other reason could be that you have more than one sound card installed and because they are using the same IRQ and PORT, you might have the problem of a sound driver conflict, and this is where you need to turn one off or remove one to make things work properly. It could be a loose cable connecting the on board audio chip to vital parts of the motherboard or it could have been fried with a power overload.

There are many hardware problems that can be attributed to reasons of why there is no sound coming from your computer, and now we can turn to the softer, well software side of things. One of the biggest issues when it comes, is the driver issue and to solve this, you have two main ways. For one thing, you can reinstall the driver for the sound chip and this normally comes with your motherboard, and if that is not an option for you, what you can do is to actually flash the bios of the motherboard, which might solve your driver conflict problem.

The second method that you can undertake is you can actually try and find new drivers for the audio chip and this is because of some new conflict that the OS has with the driver or some other known and critical programme has with your sound card. Now you should know that this happens all the time, and before you know it, the problem would have been resolved ages ago with a driver update on the manufacturer's website; And all you need to do really is to go online and download the drivers. A quick install and refresh of your system would then solve most of your problems. Of course if the problem still persists, what you need to do is to send the whole thing to the shops, because then it is a problem that is far more advanced than simple trouble shooting can solve in one day at home.

Meanwhile, you might like to try the above tips if your computer becomes inexplicably mute.