Some sound but not all

[Jokong]

A few days ago the sound on my computer stopped playing. I at first thougt that it was the spakers(blown or something), but then I opened up this one game and the music worked but the sound effects didn't. Ok so I thought it was the drivers or directX so I tried installing a new driver and directX 8 but that didn't fix it. Then today the sound worked every type of file and everything, except when I would click on the start button"woooshhh" sound and other desktop sounds, except error messages. Now, after a day of glorious sound nothing works again but that stupid music in that game. Any help will be appreciated.

[Paleo Pete]

1. Run a good virus scanner.
2. Boot into Safe Mode and remove all sound cards listed in Device Manager, reobot and let windows find and reinstall the card.

See if either works better, and let us know. Someone else might have some ideas too...

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[Jokong]

I could find no viruses with Norton, so how do you start up in safe mode and on my device manager I have these options for sound, video, and game controllers: Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC, Crystal PnP Audio System Controll Registers, Crystal Pnp Audio System MPU-401 Compatible, and some game controllers and my wave device for my voice modem. Do I remove all of the Audio ones, or what do I remove?

[Paleo Pete]

To get into Safe Mode use the [F8] key at the screen that says "verifying Pool Data" or "Starting Windows" or you can hold down [Ctrl] while booting until you get the boot menu. Arrow down to Safe Mode. [Enter] will activate the option you select.

Remove all sound devices.

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[Randy_tx]

When I get strange behavior as you describe....along with what Pete suggests, if you havent run "Scandisk" lately, this would be a very good time to do so.

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[Jokong]

Ok, I held down controll to start up in safe mode and I never got to it because I get an error that says something about a disk error or disk not found, I'm not sure because I'm not typing from my computer(obviously) but from the schools. From what I can figure it thinks that I want to start up my computer with a disk from my iomega 100 mb zip drive(because when i put a disk in there it says something about the disk not containing the operating system or windows or something. As far as I can get with this problem is by putting in the windows start up hard disk so that I can get to an a> prompt. Please help me!!!!

[aguest]

this problems is similar to the one i have: music yes, sound effects no.
Also I'm not sure this is the cause,but when i looked up the Bootlog.txt
it reported a sound driver had not loaded(sbawe.vxd),i dont know why.
The device is a wave device for a SoundBlaster16 .

[sea69]

take ALL disks out of ALL drives. (a drive, zip drive, cd drive)

then- press F5 when booting (repeatedly) until you hear a beep, this will get you into SAFE MODE.

This advice from Pete will most likely be the ticket for BOTH of your problems (aquest too).


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[This message has been edited by sea69 (edited 08-06-2001).]