So I got a new workstation for the office. Yay! A nice new machine for Christmas (sort of). I installed Windows 8.1 (clean install from Microsoft ISO) on this new Optiplex 9020 and installed all the ...

Device drivers enable the computer hardware in a Dell PC to communicate with the operating system and the installed software. The sound card -- the component responsible for outputting audio through ...

For the past month, my laptop (Dell XPS M1210) has been having audio issues – beeping at me when the sound is muted, unable to play You Tube videos or DVDs but able to play songs in iTunes. Windows ...

Just in case anyone else runs across this issue, I have just spent a few hours trying to figure it out as well. For the OptiPlex 9020 I was using it turned out that the front audio connector was ...