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lost system sounds in P200 Packard Bell, need help
Hi,
I upgraded an old Packard Bell 1710 Legend from win 95 to win98 and now there are no system sounds. I downloaded and installed drivers for the Aztech speed4 combo sound/modem card. I did the install/uninstall thing about 10 times with the same result. The modem works and it plays audio cd's fine, but the volume control isn't on the task bar and in the system folder under multimedia where "show volume" is checked everything is grayed out. The playback and recording line have the following messages in them: "no playback devices" and "no recording devices" In the system sound stuff in device manager there are no yellow exclamation marks. All looks OK there so I'm confidnet it isn't a hardware problem. In the windows media folder, all the system wave files are there, but I can't make them play. Any ideas on how to get the system sounds to work will be greatly appreciated. I spent 6 hours on this today, and have finally admitted defeat. Oh the humility of it all... as ps: I cross posted to a Packard Bell ng and a win.multimedia ng this afternoon, but so far no replys. Thanks for taking the time to read this. |
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Most important info not given...what does the Device manager say about sounds and game controllers?
HEH I still have one of those sound/modem cards (14400 I think) ill bet the drivers never loaded. Check 'other devices' heading.....there shouldn't be any. "~A_Sammy" wrote in message ... Hi, I upgraded an old Packard Bell 1710 Legend from win 95 to win98 and now there are no system sounds. I downloaded and installed drivers for the Aztech speed4 combo sound/modem card. I did the install/uninstall thing about 10 times with the same result. The modem works and it plays audio cd's fine, but the volume control isn't on the task bar and in the system folder under multimedia where "show volume" is checked everything is grayed out. The playback and recording line have the following messages in them: "no playback devices" and "no recording devices" In the system sound stuff in device manager there are no yellow exclamation marks. All looks OK there so I'm confidnet it isn't a hardware problem. In the windows media folder, all the system wave files are there, but I can't make them play. Any ideas on how to get the system sounds to work will be greatly appreciated. I spent 6 hours on this today, and have finally admitted defeat. Oh the humility of it all... as ps: I cross posted to a Packard Bell ng and a win.multimedia ng this afternoon, but so far no replys. Thanks for taking the time to read this. |
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Most important info not given...what does the Device manager say about sounds and game controllers? Device manager says they are there and are operating properly. No yellow exclamation marks. HEH I still have one of those sound/modem cards (14400 I think) ill bet the drivers never loaded. Check 'other devices' heading.....there shouldn't be any. OK, will do that in the morning. Thanks for taking the time to reply to me on this. |
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well they seem to have loaded ...no yellow!
and it plays audio cd's fine, but the volume control isn't on the task bar and in the system folder under multimedia where "show volume" is checked everything is grayed out hmmm this is kinda strange those 95 drivers may not work...look for the 98 drivers i believe there were i see if i can find a link "~A_Sammy" wrote in message ... Most important info not given...what does the Device manager say about sounds and game controllers? Device manager says they are there and are operating properly. No yellow exclamation marks. HEH I still have one of those sound/modem cards (14400 I think) ill bet the drivers never loaded. Check 'other devices' heading.....there shouldn't be any. OK, will do that in the morning. Thanks for taking the time to reply to me on this. |
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http://support.packardbell.co.uk/dow...form_legacy_PB
"~A_Sammy" wrote in message ... Hi, I upgraded an old Packard Bell 1710 Legend from win 95 to win98 and now there are no system sounds. I downloaded and installed drivers for the Aztech speed4 combo sound/modem card. I did the install/uninstall thing about 10 times with the same result. The modem works and it plays audio cd's fine, but the volume control isn't on the task bar and in the system folder under multimedia where "show volume" is checked everything is grayed out. The playback and recording line have the following messages in them: "no playback devices" and "no recording devices" In the system sound stuff in device manager there are no yellow exclamation marks. All looks OK there so I'm confidnet it isn't a hardware problem. In the windows media folder, all the system wave files are there, but I can't make them play. Any ideas on how to get the system sounds to work will be greatly appreciated. I spent 6 hours on this today, and have finally admitted defeat. Oh the humility of it all... as ps: I cross posted to a Packard Bell ng and a win.multimedia ng this afternoon, but so far no replys. Thanks for taking the time to read this. |
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Hi Jad,
Thanks for the link but I couldn't find anything there for the Aztech speed 4 card in my system. Do you think I should just try one for a different card? Threre is no "other" listing in the device manager. Under Sound, video and game controllers there is 4 listings: 1 Aztech 2320 Compatible PnP Audio (WDM) 2 Gameport Joystick 3 Microsoft MPU Audio Driver (WDM) 4 Reserved Device Clicking properties of the reserved device the window has 3 tabs, general, driver, and resources. Device Type: Sound, video and game controllers Manufacturer: Aztech Labs Hardware version: 1.0.03 Device Status: Working properly Exists in all harware profiles is checked Under driver it says: No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device. To update the driver files for this device click Update Driver Clicking update drive and letting it look for the driver it comes back with this: The best driver Windows found is already installed for this device. Click back to insatll a different driver, or click Next to continue using this drive. Location of Driver: C:\Windows\INF\WDMA_AST.INF How can it be that it both has a driver and doesn't have a driver at the same time? Clicking the back button and installling the driver that I got yesterday, it now says Sound EEPROM device where it before said Reserved Device, but the rest remains the same, ie, Under driver it says: No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device. To update the driver files for this device click Update Driver Hopefully I shut it down, turned it off, rebooted, but wound up in the same place. No system sounds, and no volume control. oi-vey... Sammy |
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"~A_Sammy" wrote in message ... Hi, I upgraded an old Packard Bell 1710 Legend from win 95 to win98 and now there are no system sounds. I downloaded and installed drivers for the Aztech speed4 combo sound/modem card. I did the install/uninstall thing about 10 times with the same result. The modem works and it plays audio cd's fine, but the volume control isn't on the task bar and in the system folder under multimedia where "show volume" is checked everything is grayed out. The playback and recording line have the following messages in them: "no playback devices" and "no recording devices" In the system sound stuff in device manager there are no yellow exclamation marks. All looks OK there so I'm confidnet it isn't a hardware problem. In the windows media folder, all the system wave files are there, but I can't make them play. Any ideas on how to get the system sounds to work will be greatly appreciated. I spent 6 hours on this today, and have finally admitted defeat. Oh the humility of it all... go into the control panel and for ...add remove programs...windows components be sure media and all related components are actually installed...you may have to add them or if they are there remove them reboot, then reinstall |
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it looks like its using 'native' XP drivers(the reason your seeing"no drivers needed blah blah)....those can work but the
manufacturers drivers are often times better suited. update the driver from the device manager.. highlight sound card properties-driver-update driver... point to the folder where the driver you want to use is. or possibly 'show ALL compatible hardware' will give a few choices. "~A_Sammy" wrote in message ... Hi Jad, Thanks for the link but I couldn't find anything there for the Aztech speed 4 card in my system. Do you think I should just try one for a different card? Threre is no "other" listing in the device manager. Under Sound, video and game controllers there is 4 listings: 1 Aztech 2320 Compatible PnP Audio (WDM) 2 Gameport Joystick 3 Microsoft MPU Audio Driver (WDM) 4 Reserved Device Clicking properties of the reserved device the window has 3 tabs, general, driver, and resources. Device Type: Sound, video and game controllers Manufacturer: Aztech Labs Hardware version: 1.0.03 Device Status: Working properly Exists in all harware profiles is checked Under driver it says: No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device. To update the driver files for this device click Update Driver Clicking update drive and letting it look for the driver it comes back with this: The best driver Windows found is already installed for this device. Click back to insatll a different driver, or click Next to continue using this drive. Location of Driver: C:\Windows\INF\WDMA_AST.INF How can it be that it both has a driver and doesn't have a driver at the same time? Clicking the back button and installling the driver that I got yesterday, it now says Sound EEPROM device where it before said Reserved Device, but the rest remains the same, ie, Under driver it says: No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device. To update the driver files for this device click Update Driver Hopefully I shut it down, turned it off, rebooted, but wound up in the same place. No system sounds, and no volume control. oi-vey... Sammy |
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XP 98* native drivers..... and I thought that WDM drivers were for ME 2000 XP......didn't think 98 would use them...hmmmm
"JAD" wrote in message ink.net... it looks like its using 'native' XP drivers(the reason your seeing"no drivers needed blah blah)....those can work but the manufacturers drivers are often times better suited. update the driver from the device manager.. highlight sound card properties-driver-update driver... point to the folder where the driver you want to use is. or possibly 'show ALL compatible hardware' will give a few choices. "~A_Sammy" wrote in message ... Hi Jad, Thanks for the link but I couldn't find anything there for the Aztech speed 4 card in my system. Do you think I should just try one for a different card? Threre is no "other" listing in the device manager. Under Sound, video and game controllers there is 4 listings: 1 Aztech 2320 Compatible PnP Audio (WDM) 2 Gameport Joystick 3 Microsoft MPU Audio Driver (WDM) 4 Reserved Device Clicking properties of the reserved device the window has 3 tabs, general, driver, and resources. Device Type: Sound, video and game controllers Manufacturer: Aztech Labs Hardware version: 1.0.03 Device Status: Working properly Exists in all harware profiles is checked Under driver it says: No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device. To update the driver files for this device click Update Driver Clicking update drive and letting it look for the driver it comes back with this: The best driver Windows found is already installed for this device. Click back to insatll a different driver, or click Next to continue using this drive. Location of Driver: C:\Windows\INF\WDMA_AST.INF How can it be that it both has a driver and doesn't have a driver at the same time? Clicking the back button and installling the driver that I got yesterday, it now says Sound EEPROM device where it before said Reserved Device, but the rest remains the same, ie, Under driver it says: No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device. To update the driver files for this device click Update Driver Hopefully I shut it down, turned it off, rebooted, but wound up in the same place. No system sounds, and no volume control. oi-vey... Sammy |
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update:
I found an old ISA sound blaster card laying around and put it in to see what would happen, and after the PnP did it's thing, the volumn control was back and the system sounds work when run from the device manager, but the welcome sound doesn't play when the system is turned on. The exit sound plays when it is turned off. It's just one puzzel after another with this one, but at least I know the original problem was the drivers for the combo card. The SB16 sound is actually fantastic. It's never sounded this good playing MP3s before. Sammy |
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