Re: Does anyone fancy a challenge?

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:23:17 -0700, paulmd@xxxxxxx wrote:


Stuart wrote:
Hi, I'll try to be as through as I can.

I've never seen this problem before and up to now I am stumped for what
could be the problem. First I'll go thorough the symptoms, then what I
believe is the cause and then I'll tell you what I've tried.

My sound is to put no finer point on it buggered! I have no volume control
in my taskbar, however when I go into the 'Sounds and Audio Devices'
control panel applett the tick bao for showing in taskbar is ticked.
Going to the next tab in hte applett shows I have a sound scheme selected,
howver when I try to play a sound the little play button next to the file
selection box is greyed out.
When I start XP I get no logon music, infact I get no system sounds what
so ever.
My DVD's play video in powerdvd but do not play audio.
I get no audio from hte internet (my kids were playing some flash games
with no sound)
However I can play the MP3's on my PC in Media Player10 without a problem.
I can also play the system sounds directly from the c:\windows\media
folder again through media player10. I have ran dxdiag.exe and hte music
and sounds that it play are fine. So the problem is not with my speakers
or my audio cable. I have also tried playing a wav file in sound recorder
but again the little play button was greyed out.


I'm not sure dxdiag will prove you have no problem with the audio
cable. The only way to be sure is to open the box and see that the
cable from the CD to the sound card in plugged in.

Those are all the symptons I can think of for now, I have not tried but I
am presuming audio CD's will play through media player, as my MP3's play
fine.


MP3s are a different beast, an audio CD uses the cable, mp3s dont.
Except MP10, and many newer programs should overcome this.

This would make more sense if you didn't have so many OTHER audio
problems, however. THis would only explain the powerdvd issue, and
maybe the no audio CD issue.

This was working untill last week, and timing is too close to me messing
about with the codecs, making me think it is a software issue rather than
hardware.

In terms of hte cable I meant the cable with the green jackplugs, not my
CD audio cable. True DXDiag would not use my internal cable and neither
would mp3's. So it could be my internal cable except for two things, one;
system sounds aren't working either, and they don't use the cable, and my
CD drive supports DAE!
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