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Sound not working - Sound Blaster Z sound card in Device Manager but not Playback devices
Charging light keeps blinking
Friend was cleaning his computer and afterwards was not displaying to motherboard. I noticed this near the pcie slot. Could this be the cause?

Sound not working - Sound Blaster Z sound card in Device Manager but not Playback devices

Posted: 30 Jun 2018 02:15 AM PDT

My sound suddenly stopped working. I have a Sound Blaster Z sound card, and it shows up in the Device Manager, but not in Playback devices. Yes, I checked the Show Disabled Devices and Show Disconnected Devices.

List of things I've tried:

*Updating the drivers.

*Uninstalling the device and restarting.

*Disabling on-board audio.

*Running svscan (I think that's what it's called, I don't remember exactly)

*Restarting in Services, making sure everything is set to automatic.

*System Restore (it didn't work and gave an error, I'll type the error out at the bottom)

*Moving the sound card to another PCIe slot

*Taking out the sound card altogether and trying to use the on-board audio instead (still no sound, so not sound card's fault I don't think)

*Running an HDMI cord to my TV, which always has resulted in sound coming from the TV but doesn't anymore.

*I don't know if it was caused by a Windows update, but when I go to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Installed Updates, the last update it shows was 21 days ago, and my sound worked fine yesterday. So I don't think it was caused by a Windows update, but I have no freaking clue.

I know there's other things I've tried but I am so tired and I can't remember them all.

Would doing "Reset this PC" fix it? Or should I do the Advanced startup? Or do a clean installation of Windows 10? (I don't know how to do any of those.)

I have no idea what to do and am having a breakdown. I really need my computer and don't have the money to get a new one or get this one fixed. I've been working on this for the past 20 hours to no avail. I've tried every single thing I could find on Google as well as messaged some computer friends about it.

My system specs:

AMD FX-6350 processor

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard

16 GB RAM (G.Skill Trident X DDR3 1600)

Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM internal hard drive

EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ graphics card

Sound Blaster Z sound card

Windows 10 Home 64 bit, Version 1709, OS Build 16299.431

The System Restore error:

System Restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's system files and settings were not changed.

Details:

System Restore failed while restoring the directory from the restore point. Source: AppxProgramDataStaging

Destination: %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository

An unspecified error occurred during System Restore. (0x80070091)

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Charging light keeps blinking

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:24 PM PDT

I have an Inspiron 15 5000 series laptop, it was low on battery so i went to charge it but the orange charging light started blinking i thought the problem would go away overnight but it hasn't, it's currently at 7% it won't go down or up, i tried troubleshooting but it says there's nothing wrong. If i try to take the charger out my laptop immediately dies it will only turn on when the charger is connected. Please help, thanks

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Friend was cleaning his computer and afterwards was not displaying to motherboard. I noticed this near the pcie slot. Could this be the cause?

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 08:59 PM PDT

Correction: not displaying to monitor

Picture for reference

https://m.imgur.com/5bu7lIV

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