- Sound problems
- Posted by Melissa B on January 29th, 2006
I'm not sure why, but the sound has suddenly stopped working for me. I tried
going through the trouble shooters and all of that, but nothing has helped.
I looked through the device manager and everything is working fine. However,
when I tested the sound in dxdiag, I got a "Failure at Step 19 (User
verification of software): HRESULT = 0x00000000 (error code). I tried
reinstalling the latest version of DirectX, but that didn't help either. I
have SoundMax Digital Audio, if that helps. The driver version is
5.12.1.3044, and Windows didn't find any updates for it. I'm using Windows
XP Home with SP2 installed. Any help would be very much appreciated.
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on January 29th, 2006
Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Click on the ? Icon to Expand
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm
Click on...
[?] Where did my Sounds go?
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Resources for Troubleshooting Sound Problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307918
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:0DD0D0DB-07A9-401F-8394-FF2C0C2409A8@microsoft.com,
Melissa B <MelissaB@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
- Posted by Melissa B on January 29th, 2006
I looked through that, as well the additional sound articles, but it doesn't
look like any of them will help. I also did a search for the DirectX error I
got, and I didn't find anything...and what's really weird is that when I
unmute my microphone, I can hear my voice from the speakers! No other sound
is working though. Should I just reformat?
"Wesley Vogel" wrote:
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on January 30th, 2006
Obviously your Microphone volume is up and working.
Try unplugging your microphone and see what happens.
Open Volume Control...
Start | Run | Type: sndvol32 | Click OK |
Options | Properties | Show the following volume controls: |
Under Playback make sure that you have at least
Play Control
Wave (Windows sounds use this)
MIDI
CD Audio (If you have a CD drive)
You may have more.
Show the following volume controls:
[[Displays the devices on your system whose sound you can control. Click to
adjust the volume for each device.]]
Close Properties, back in Play Control...
Make sure that no Mute is selected.
Make sure that the volume slider is up for everything.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:0CE29414-D1F0-4EA8-94C6-D31878F0A851@microsoft.com,
Melissa B <MelissaB@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
- Posted by Neon on January 30th, 2006
you can also try : control panel | sound and audio devices |click the audio
tab, make sure your 'default device' for 'sound playback' and 'sound
recording' are the same, this should work.
"Wesley Vogel" wrote:
- Posted by Paul on January 30th, 2006
Had a similar problem. No need to format. Try and re-install the drivers for
your board and soundcard first.
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lpx
"Neon" wrote:
- Posted by Tim C on April 22nd, 2006
I now have the same problem. I can't reinstall as I can't find the
installation disk provided by Dell. I can't get Neons earlier suggestion to
work as my PC doesn't recognise sndvol32 when I type it in the "run" box.
"Paul" wrote:
