no sound

jtn3833 · Post by **jtn3833** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:05 pm

I have a second computer in my study that I use as an MP3 player. I recently moved the hard drive into a faster system (an old Presario 5441 running Win98). After updating the drivers it seemed to be running great until I discovered it was not making any sounds at all.
I've installed a new sound card (just a cheap $20 card from CompUSA) with new drivers and still have nothing. Winamp plays like it's making music (the bars on the equalizer a pumping with the music) but still no audio. I've un-installed all of the audio drivers and reinstalled them all a few times, reinstalled the sound card a few times and I'm out of ideas. I believe the hardware is working fine because I was getting no audio from the onboard sound card before I bought the new card.
It's not the speakers, I've checked that. And there is no setting in BIOS to disengage the onboard sound.
I'm out of ideas, hopefully one of you can help me out. I am so close to having this thing the way I want it and I'm almost certain it's something in the software.
Thanks,
JTN

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:32 pm

Check the Multimedia options under Control Panel to select the default device. Also check Winamp's settings dealing with output (wave or DirectSound)

jtn3833 · Post by **jtn3833** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:18 pm

In multimedia settings the preferred devices are ESS AudioDrive which is the drivers that came with the new sound card
I just downloaded the newest version of Winamp (like five minutes ago) and the output plug-ins that came with the new version are:

waveOut output v2.0.2a [OUT_WAVE.DLL]
Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in v2.0c (x86) [OUT_DISK.DLL]
DirectSound output v2.2.10 [OUT_DS.DLL]

I'm not very familiar with the workings of Winamp (I just like having the visualizations run on a monitor while I listen to the music), but it looks like both WAV and Directsound are being dealt with there in some capacity.
Also, since I cannot get sound to come out when I test the sounds in Sounds Properties (you know, the windows default schemes of Critical Stop and Exit Windows) either. I just get no audio, the one thing this computer is supposed to do for me.
Any other thoughts, I'm at a loss.

The_Frapster · Post by **The_Frapster** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:59 am

Go to your control panel, then the sound applet, and check to make sure that everything is fine there. On one of my 2k3 machines, it automatically disabled the sound card and the special features of the video card. GL with it.

jtn3833 · Post by **jtn3833** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:05 am

Everything in Control Panel looks fine in both Multimedia and Sounds. That's what is so frustrating, everything looks good but it still doesn't work.
Thanks thought,
JTN

123cool · Post by **123cool** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:03 pm

i know you gonna probably laugh at this.....have you made sure the sound is turned up not only on the speakers but also in the sound options on your computer(the ones accessed from control panel)?

jtn3833 · Post by **jtn3833** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:19 am

Yeah, I was also hoping it would be something like that, but I double checked the speaker and computer volume and made sure mute was off early on. Thanks though.

JTN

impuresoul2k3 · Post by **impuresoul2k3** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:09 pm

How about it being muted from the little speaker icon on the task bar? Just a thought

jtn3833 · Post by **jtn3833** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:12 pm

Nope, I wish it was something like that, that I had overlooked, but unfortunately not. Thanks though.

JTN

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:47 pm

on some of the older machines it was verydifficult to disable the onboard sound - which ends up with conflict in both the irqs and elsewhere

did you check to see if the old sound was stilll using resources and whether it was conflicting with the new card?

stuff like this drives me crazy - GL