- Sound check?
- Posted by keith on March 6th, 2004
Have poked around 'my computer' a bit looking for solution to no sound
problem. Computer volume and media program volumes are 'up' and mutes are
off. Headphones and extension cord are both OK. Checked them on the stereo.
Real One shows audio CD tracks running. Is there something/anything in Win
98 I could use as a sound check. Any way to verify sound card without having
sound? Thanks.
- Posted by Tedd Riggs on March 6th, 2004
Not a real sound checker I know of that is native to the OS. Are you getting
no sounds at all ? Even the "tada" when Windows starts ? You can do a very
basic sound check in Control Panel and sounds and try some of those waves
out. Or if you have almost any version of Windows Media Player there are
default files in that.
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- Posted by Brian A. on March 6th, 2004
Start > Run, type in: dxdiag and press enter.
Run the sound tests in there.
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- Posted by keith on March 7th, 2004
Brian and Tedd - Thanks for the responses. Don't know what the problem
is/was but this morning all is well. Could a sound card be starting to fail
and giving intermitent results or is it an all or nothing proposition? That
dxdiag is a neat little item - now if I could just print some of the tab
displays. Thanks again for your 'sound' advice.
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Start > Run, type in: dxdiag and press enter.
Run the sound tests in there.
--
Brian A.
Jack of all trades, Master of none. One can never truly be a master as there
is
always more to learn.
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- Posted by Tedd Riggs on March 7th, 2004
I had not seen the dxdiag before, that is neat.
There is a chance your sound card might be dying, but normally when they do,
they will lock up your PC. You might want to open the PC, pull out the
sound card and clean the contacts either with Alcohol or the old fashioned
way by using an eraser on the contacts to make sure there is a good
connection. I have had to do this on some PC's that are over 2 years old.
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- Posted by Brian A. on March 7th, 2004
I'd give the machine innards the once over, give it a good cleaning and make
sure all cables/wires are secured/seated properly. Then check and make sure all
the wires/cables are secured/seated properly outside. Pay special attention to
the sound related ones.
It is possible to print the separate tab screens in the standard roundabout
way, by using the PrintScrn key. That will copy it to the clipboard and then you
can paste it into a graphics app to print. The one thing that slips my mind at
the moment is if it is Shift+PrintScrn or Alt+PrintScrn that will print only the
forefront active window and not the entire screen.
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