No Sound in Firefox and IE8

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I am using a headset. I never could work out how to get my monitor speakers working - there’s a cable that connects to my PC but no sound comes out the speakers…

Some day “plug and play” things will actually do what they say on the box. I spent 5 phone calls to technical support for my router (which was not working). I was told that no software etc. needed to be installed and that it was just a question of plug and play. They had me doing all these strange things (which I had already done). In the end I worked it out myself - the network card had not been installed! They never said anything about that!

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Posted this in the other thread but maybe it will be seen here first. I found a link for the sound drivers for that motherboard. Maybe installing them will help.

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

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Thanks Dch48.

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@pk post:7

@tonyy, the_slasher, Jon_T:

confirmed and I’ve already fixed it today, sorry for delay – this happened only under some OSes (WinXP in your cases). When audio library in your browsers tried to access some restricted registry keys, it was blocked by sandbox and thus was not properly initialized (= no sound).

pk,

Thanks for the reply/info. Any workarounds to have the avast! sandbox not to block these restricted registry keys until the “fix” is included in the next avast! release?

Thanks,
Jon

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@Dch48 post:13

This points out why I do not use any form of sandboxing and won’t unless I’m forced into it. It just causes too many headaches.

To each his own – seen people post that they won’t use a software firewall for the same reason.

Been using Sandboxie on my three Win XP systems without any issues.