22Parker
December 16th, 2012, 02:42 AM
Recently I bought a solid state drive for my computer, on my previous hard drive I had the Blade theme from Mr. Grimm. I had issues with sound on installing it before but upon repeating the installation more than once I could get it to work. Now after installing the blade theme pack for my solid state I cannot get the sound to work. Worse yet, no amount of 7tsp restores or even system restores will fix my missing sound. I've even re-installed my Realtek sound driver from my motherboard disc. Upon finding that old tricks did not work I repeated this step straight from Mr. Grimms blade page;
"If you install the 7tsp theme extras and find you have lost your sound or if you are using a Creative Sound Card you will need to use Restore on 7tsp and then remove the pack from 7tsp, then open the 7-zip archive and in the resource folder you will see shell32.dll.res, you need to delete that file and then repack the theme pack using 7-Zip again, then load it into 7tsp again and reinstall it.
For some reason Creative sound cards do not like any changes to the shell32.dll and there is no way to get around that, the only thing that you will miss out on will be a few icons and the copy delete animation mod, nothing major and you will still have a great experience without them."
However, since the only thing in my computer that was changed was my SSD I doubt the sound card is the issue. Nonetheless I repeated this process multiple times and was unsuccessful at restoring sound to my computer. My next step was to try sfc /scannow in my cmd prompt. This also did not fix my sound. I've run out of options and ideas to fixing my sound. It came to the point that I thought something different was wrong, for example my speakers. My speakers were checked and work properly. I even watched my computers sound levels move, indicating that sound is playing I am just not hearing it. What could this be? Any suggestions?
"If you install the 7tsp theme extras and find you have lost your sound or if you are using a Creative Sound Card you will need to use Restore on 7tsp and then remove the pack from 7tsp, then open the 7-zip archive and in the resource folder you will see shell32.dll.res, you need to delete that file and then repack the theme pack using 7-Zip again, then load it into 7tsp again and reinstall it.
For some reason Creative sound cards do not like any changes to the shell32.dll and there is no way to get around that, the only thing that you will miss out on will be a few icons and the copy delete animation mod, nothing major and you will still have a great experience without them."
However, since the only thing in my computer that was changed was my SSD I doubt the sound card is the issue. Nonetheless I repeated this process multiple times and was unsuccessful at restoring sound to my computer. My next step was to try sfc /scannow in my cmd prompt. This also did not fix my sound. I've run out of options and ideas to fixing my sound. It came to the point that I thought something different was wrong, for example my speakers. My speakers were checked and work properly. I even watched my computers sound levels move, indicating that sound is playing I am just not hearing it. What could this be? Any suggestions?