Re: No Windows sounds but do have WMP sounds by Another
Another
Sun Jul 20 21:49:13 PDT 2008
Thank you, Rey. The Gateway does not have MB integrated sound so I
could not turn it off. Flipping the digital/audio box didn't help
either as that only applied to the CD/DVD drives which was working.
You did, however, lead me to look through the sound item in Device
Manager. When I looked at the Media Control Devices properties I
discovered that the (MCI) Midi Sequencer had been configured to use
the phone modem instead of the sound card. Once I switched it to use
the sound card, everything started working correctly. Thank you again
for pointing me in the right direction.
Brian
"Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:969ADC87-42E5-4DD8-8D4A-704972EBF8D2@microsoft.com...
> Chances are either you have on board audio or you have sound blaster
> live
> audio card like my old Gateway PC. You have to disable your onboard
> sound in
> the BIOS to use Soundblaster. If you have soundblaster its also
> possible
> that when you reinstalled it changed the digital output signal. Go
> to
> advanced properties and try to check or uncheck the digital output
> box and
> see if you get sound.
>
>
> --
> Rey
>
>
> "Another Brian" wrote:
>
>> I'm so confused. I've just finished rebuilding an old Gateway PC.
>> This
>> morning I had Windows sounds (the logon ta-da and other beeps and
>> boops) but audio CD's wouldn't make any sound. Playing wav files
>> through WMP did not do anything. I then updated the audio drivers
>> downloaded from Gateway for this PC. Now I can play any media
>> through
>> WMP, but the Windows sounds do not work. When I go into Control
>> Panel
>> | Sound and Audio Devices Properties, Volume tab, it says "No Audio
>> Device". When I go to the Sounds tab and try playing any of the
>> sounds
>> such as Asterisk, I get the error message:
>>
>> Windows cannot play the sound %SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP
>> Error.wav
>>
>> When I go into Device Manager, there was a question mark next to
>> Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver. I couldn't find
>> anything about it on the Gateway driver list. Searching Google came
>> up
>> a suggestion to delete this driver and reboot. If it wasn't
>> automatically found, then to scan for hardware changes. It wasn't
>> found.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to get Windows to beep at me.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>