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Subject: No sound and bad grafic

Original Message

Name: Ema
Date: June 2, 2006 at 06:46:13 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic
OS: WinME
CPU/Ram: 128MB
Model/Manufacturer: 7920

Comment:

Hi! I had a problem when i switched on my computer a few weeks ago. But my problem is that I have no sound and the compuer can only use 16 colors. I also had no mouse pointer but I got it back by not selecting system.ini in msconfig. My grafic card is NVIDIA GeForce2 MX200. I have Windows ME. I've also noticed that java doesn't work.
In the control panel under sound it says that there's a problem with the sound and it can be fixed in the control panel under system. But the problem is that nothing happens when i select system. I had this error message every time I switched on my computer that said something about "msgsrv32". I read somewhere that it could be fixed if I types msgsrv32 in run. And it did, the sound and java came back. But next time I switched on the computer the error message didn't appear and it didn't help to type it in run and the sound anda java was gone again.
With the grafic I can change the colors but when the computer needs to reboot it's back to the way it was before with only 16 colors.
Some help, please!!!

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Response Number 1

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: June 2, 2006 at 09:24:24 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

Reply: (edit)

I assume that grafic is actually your video driver (graphic), if so, you need to download and reinstall the drivers for your video card.
Also, reinstall your audio drivers and reinstall.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

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Response Number 2

Name: Ema
Date: June 2, 2006 at 10:48:01 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

Reply: (edit)

Thanks! But I've tried it a couple of times but no luck.. Any other suggestions?

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Response Number 3

Name: street1
Date: June 2, 2006 at 16:35:25 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

Reply: (edit)

Have you used/tried system restore ?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsME/using/computerhealth/articles/systemrestore.asp

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Response Number 4

Name: Ema
Date: June 3, 2006 at 09:38:21 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

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Yeah I have but thanks.. Any more ideas?

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Response Number 5

Name: GX1 Man
Date: June 3, 2006 at 13:22:35 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

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Format it and reinstall. Make sure you have all of the appropriate drivers and install your motherboard drivers FIRST after the O/S.

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Response Number 6

Name: Dirty_Sanchez
Date: June 4, 2006 at 11:54:27 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

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are there yellow !!! marks beside the hardware in device manager?

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Response Number 7

Name: Ema
Date: June 5, 2006 at 09:01:46 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

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I noticed know that I can't reach the device manager either. I would rather not re-install if there's any oher way..?

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Response Number 8

Name: Leroi
Date: June 5, 2006 at 15:29:26 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

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Can you run online scans for viruses and other malware?
Online malware scanners
Might give us some clues anyway.

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Response Number 9

Name: street1
Date: June 6, 2006 at 03:41:36 Pacific
Subject: No sound and bad grafic

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Have you tried the driver at below site for Windows ME?

http://www.tulip.com/support/downloads/dwnldf.asp?ft=dr&m=14900ex&g=2

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