I have installed Win 7 on my laptop and I have no driver for the sound card. An external USB speaker will work with no sound driver in laptop?
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When I plugged my speaker in the computer found new hardware and installed what was needed for it to work. I hope this helped.
882361
USB gets power from computer and is the bus through which the sound driver ports pc audio to the device. It's not a stand alone AD/DA. Works best as an ext sound card
1854834
I have installed this device on both Windows 7 & 8 with no problems. I downloaded the latest Device Drivers from Creative. Here is the link: http://support.creative.com/downloads/?h=7 I installed the driver before plugging in the device. Check sound properties if no sound and make the "Sound Blaster Wireless" the default device for playback and recording.
2006747
yes, anything that you can hear from normal speaker for Laptop, you can hear from this. its just like any other external speaker with USB as input connector to the computer. But it works only with computers
1190202
It works just fine with both Win 7 and Win 8.1... I will say that under either OS, if I leave the interface up, eventually the USB drops the connection with the PC and I have to power cycle the unit or unplug and plug back in the USB cable. There may be newer drivers which address this or it maybe configurations I can modify on my PC. But to your question, "how well does it work," I get smooth streaming sound when I'm working with it ... did you have specific requirements in mind?
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I'm not a computer tech but my experience is that I purchased this Syba USB Sound Card because my internal sound card stopped working. I'm remembering, I think, that I still had to have speakers. So you can plug anywhere and use existing speakers... but I'm not sure. You should email the Syba mfg.
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Probably not, it plugs in to your laptop/desktop using a usb port which connects to your motherboard, you must have either a built in soundcard or one plugged into the motherboard for it to function. Im sure any $20-40 soundcard should work if yours is busted.
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what u can do is insert your driver disk that comes with the mother board. Do not choose auto install every thing. the scroll down the list of drivers and choose the audio driver and install it.
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no, you will need a sound card regardless to play sound on your computer ..... speakers of any kind only work with a soundcard installed.
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Honestly, no. Soundblaster does have drivers available on their support page, but they are frustratingly outdated and may or may not work. But you would be better off using the on-board sound device and drivers for your motherboard. If you want clearer and louder music and games, SoundBlaster and Asus offer a few new models worth checking out first. kk
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I know it didn't work with Windows 7 via the USB. I used the audio out and connected it to the line input of my PC
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NO This item can replace the built-in sound card and/or adds the usb sound device. You may have to go to control panel and select the USB audio device as the default.
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I assume that when you plug this device into you laptop you still have no USB available from this device ? window xp already has usb drivers installed by default. If for some reason in Device manager it is missing them. do one of two things. first go to manufacture web site and just down load the driver and install or reinstall. Or there are generic windows usb driver you can find in your search. I suspect that if your cd player is broken may be you are missing other drivers also which can be down loaded from the net. I am answering to this question on the fact that I don't know much about your situation. Just trying to help.
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Yes it should replace your existing sound card. I hve an older pc and aftr installing Windows 7 the sound card would not work. By using this creative sound blaster plus external speakers that will connect to this sound card, I now hve sound!
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The speaker works automaticaly with the computers sound program. Just click the sound icon on the bottom right and adjust that way. You should know the quality of the sound and volume of the sound is much better then you will have with your laptop. At least it is that way with my Toshiba.
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just a USB ..might have to go into system preferences and them into the sound setting and select the Altec Lansing speaker....it should work then,
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It seems to work fine but t was only the lap top speakers that were out not the sound card. Check your device manager to see if the sound card is functioning if the computer says it is. Check your sound systems. Its easy to replace a sound card in a lap top. And worth it.