Hello everyone,
Recently the liquid coolant that my computer uses has been making alot of noise. I contacted a tech support guy through Ibuypower.com where I bought my computer from 4 years ago and he told me that my liquid coolant was becoming faulty. I opened up my computer and began cleaning out as much as I could and when I disconnected the water coolant the backplating behind the motherboard was never taped into place to where it was aligned with the screws so I was forced to take out all the parts including the motherboard to align everything back so I could screw the liquid coolant back into place. After connecting everything back together I booted up my computer and it immediately smelled as if something was burning. I quickly powered down my computer and opened up the case looking closely over the motherboard looking for anything that may have burned up. I didn't notice anything so I put the siding back on the case and powered it back up again. This time I didn't smell anything burning.
After powering up I noticed that my sound no longer worked as it did before. I thought this was odd and went into task manager only to find that I had two High Definition Audio Controllers listed. One of them had a yellow exclamation point on it. I tried right clicking this one and thought it may have been the driver that was out of date. It came back telling me that the driver was up to date. Still confused to what was going on, I then tried to uninstalling it and it successfully installed. After re-starting my computer, it began searching for new hardware and tried to install the High Definition Audio Controller. It popped up with a message saying that it was unable to install this device. I went into control panel and clicked on sound devices and found that I no longer had Realtek audio listed, but instead now AMD HDMI Output is listed as a sound device, but it says that is not connected. The motherboard that I have has onboard sound and I'm starting to think that the burning smell I had smelled when I booted the computer may have burned up the onboard sound, but I'm not sure. I feel that I've exhausted all of my options. I've tried downloading the newest driver for Realtek with no luck. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing. The only thing I have not done is tried to re-format my computer. As I was searching the internet, someone had said that my graphics card may have been trying to use itself as a sound device, which I thought was weird. My computer is no longer in warranty and I was thinking of just buying a sound card to test it that way, but wanted to check here first. I'm attaching some pictures along with this post in hopes of solving this issue. Listed below is the specs to my computer:
OS: Windows 7 64x
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67-M
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6850
Thanks for your time!
Recently the liquid coolant that my computer uses has been making alot of noise. I contacted a tech support guy through Ibuypower.com where I bought my computer from 4 years ago and he told me that my liquid coolant was becoming faulty. I opened up my computer and began cleaning out as much as I could and when I disconnected the water coolant the backplating behind the motherboard was never taped into place to where it was aligned with the screws so I was forced to take out all the parts including the motherboard to align everything back so I could screw the liquid coolant back into place. After connecting everything back together I booted up my computer and it immediately smelled as if something was burning. I quickly powered down my computer and opened up the case looking closely over the motherboard looking for anything that may have burned up. I didn't notice anything so I put the siding back on the case and powered it back up again. This time I didn't smell anything burning.
After powering up I noticed that my sound no longer worked as it did before. I thought this was odd and went into task manager only to find that I had two High Definition Audio Controllers listed. One of them had a yellow exclamation point on it. I tried right clicking this one and thought it may have been the driver that was out of date. It came back telling me that the driver was up to date. Still confused to what was going on, I then tried to uninstalling it and it successfully installed. After re-starting my computer, it began searching for new hardware and tried to install the High Definition Audio Controller. It popped up with a message saying that it was unable to install this device. I went into control panel and clicked on sound devices and found that I no longer had Realtek audio listed, but instead now AMD HDMI Output is listed as a sound device, but it says that is not connected. The motherboard that I have has onboard sound and I'm starting to think that the burning smell I had smelled when I booted the computer may have burned up the onboard sound, but I'm not sure. I feel that I've exhausted all of my options. I've tried downloading the newest driver for Realtek with no luck. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing. The only thing I have not done is tried to re-format my computer. As I was searching the internet, someone had said that my graphics card may have been trying to use itself as a sound device, which I thought was weird. My computer is no longer in warranty and I was thinking of just buying a sound card to test it that way, but wanted to check here first. I'm attaching some pictures along with this post in hopes of solving this issue. Listed below is the specs to my computer:
OS: Windows 7 64x
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67-M
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6850
Thanks for your time!
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