RE: NO SOUND DEVICE?!?

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From: caliderr (caliderr_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:33:01 -0800

try going into your control panel to your soound and audio devices ; then to
change sound schemes; in the properties click audio. Under sound playback ,
see that Advanced AC97 Audio is in the window. then click ok . I had the
same problem . this worked for me. good luck

"jordan" wrote:

> I keep getting the error message Windows Media Player cannot play the file
> because there is a problem with your sound device. "There may not be a sound
> device installed on your computer, it may be in use by another program, or it
> may not be functioning properly" every time I try to play a music file and I
> have followed some of the advice given by chris lainer(?) and download the
> program that is given on the windows media player website however this has
> not helped. I have also tried all the help give on the support and help page
> and find this is of no use to me. I thought that it might have something to
> do with my speakers built into my monitor.However my sound did work last
> night because today I have only just recently upgraded my pc to XP it used to
> be windows 98 and there have been many cases of this that I can see on the
> forums. It also says tocheck my sound card supply etc but I have no idea of
> the name of the sound card amongst other things.on my control panel it says
> modem 0#line back and I have no Idea what this is. I have also read about
> installing the harware I have also tried this but I do not have the
> installation disc because everything i need was preloaded on my computer when
> it was windows 98 so there was no hardware disc with it. I have only 1 method
> left to try and that is to unistall it and the restart my computer the
> install.
> your help would be greatly appreaciated, Jordan Valentine

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