Help with speakers

[mastermonil]

Recently ive been having trouble with sound on XP. My system is dual boot (Ubuntu and XP). The sound works in Linux but not in XP. Usually i have to restart when the sound doesnt work in XP and then go back into XP for it to work. I have an Audigy 2Z S sound card, but i dont think its a hardware problem because sound works in Linux. My speakers are the dell ones.

[soybean]

Recently ive been having trouble with sound on XP. My system is dual boot (Ubuntu and XP). The sound works in Linux but not in XP. Usually i have to restart when the sound doesnt work in XP and then go back into XP for it to work. I have an Audigy 2Z S sound card, but i dont think its a hardware problem because sound works in Linux. My speakers are the dell ones.

In other words, you have to restart XP twice?  Does "go back into" mean restart or what?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Recently ive been having trouble with sound on XP. My system is dual boot (Ubuntu and XP). The sound works in Linux but not in XP. Usually i have to restart when the sound doesnt work in XP and then go back into XP for it to work. I have an Audigy 2Z S sound card, but i dont think its a hardware problem because sound works in Linux. My speakers are the dell ones.

In other words, you have to restart XP twice?  Does "go back into" mean restart or what?

I think he means switching back into xp mode.

[soybean]

In other words, restart and select Win XP as the OS?  Right?

[mastermonil]

yes thats wat i meant. srry wasnt clear. I had to log off XP, restart my computer, and then choose XP as the OS to boot into. But ive been running dual boot for a while now and this problem just came up yesterday.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

So your problem is your sound works in Linux but not XP, right?

If that's the case, try the following in XP:
Go to Control Panel (classic view)
Open Sounds and Audio Devices
Go to the Audio tab
make sure it is set to the right device (in the first drop down menu)

[mastermonil]

ya its alrdy set to the right device.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

And the speakers still don't work?

[patio]

Which bootloader are you using ? ?

That may be the culprit here...

To find out boot into XP and re-install the XP sound drivers...

Upon re-boot you MUST go back into XP for the driver installation to finalise ...if not it will not work properly.