My Dell Dimension 3000 has no sound and says there is no sound device. What happened to it and how can I reconnect it?

Try to Re-install your Audio Driver.Driver's cd is provided you with your motherboard.If you don't have the cd,then download your sound driver from following link -

Dell Dimension 3000

Check your speakers first. Plug the cable from your speakers into a cell phone, ipod or some other music device that has headphone port. If the speakers are crackling then, then you know it's the speakers. If not, then it's a computer issue in which case you might want to contact Dell.

Good luck!

if the Dell logo does not appear at all when you start the computer, unplug its power cord, press its power button for say 10 seconds to clear any power left to it. Next, try to disconnect all external devices connected to it, then remove the power and ide/sata cables to your hard drive and/or CD/DVD drives, remove all the memory and just reconnect 1 confimed working memory to the first memor slot. Remove any other cards like video card, or network cards, then remove and reconnect the power connection from the power supply to the motherboard. Reconnect the power cable and attempt to turn it on. If the back panel light code changes, try to re-connect the devices starting from the memory, then expansion cards and the storage devices one by one. After connecting each card or device, test the system to see which device may be at fault. If nothing changes, could be your power supply or mainboard and you may need to get the replacement for them. HOpe this lead you to the right direction in getting this solved. feel free to rate how helpful this information is. Thanks

The popping sound is most likely your power supply or something on your system-board like a capacitor.
If the problem is only the power supply:
If you want to see if you can salvage it try just replacing the power supply. The part is around forty dollars. You can google "Dell Dimension 3000 250w power supply" to find a deal on a power supply.Here is a link on how to replace the power supply in that computer.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/SM/parts.htm#wp1075727

Hope that helps.
Joel

hi go to start, settings, control panel, click on sound and audio devices. on the volume tab locate properties and click on it. now another box will appear look for cd volume and adujst it whist playing a cd until the sound is less distorted. please rate me if this solves you problem.

check to see the sound is working under the control panel .. system icon click and goto device manager

you might have a bad driver for the sound device or the device is bad on the motherboard

also test under sound devices.. and set the default device to use ..

I had that happen to me once on my Sony Vio and had to re-install the original driver. That fixed my problem. That was 5 years ago, and I haven't had any sound issues since. Hope this helps...:)

Go to Control panel and click on Sounds and Audio Devices, then click on Audio tab, then under Sound Playback click Volume. There you can adjust the sound for each device listed. If that does not solve the problem...it may just be your speakers.

hi if your motherboard have you install sound properly....Or not your sound driver you Go to driver Zone.com then download it

hai pls enable usb option in cmos and then press f10 and then press yes and then restart and see . or else reinstall the usb drivers