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No sound
Name: city13 Date: February 1, 2004 at 17:42:46 Pacific OS: ME CPU/Ram: COMPAQ AMD ATHLON 256.0RA
Comment:
I have lost sound on my pc.It started when I downloaded ESS ESI audio driver trying to get rid of a hum.I downloaded the driver for my sound card,creative sound blaster audio pci128.That didnt work. Iuninstalled/reinstalled my sound card,windows detected it, found the driver, but still no sound.Any help, please.
Name: wawadave Date: February 2, 2004 at 09:39:01 Pacific
Reply:
hello try system restore. if that dont work try d/ling new driver from creative. allso look in device manager.
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Response Number 2
Name: city13 Date: February 6, 2004 at 02:55:58 Pacific
Reply:
I did a direct music test.When I tested microsoft synthesizer I got: no sound and "Failure at step 6(activating the direct music port) hresult=0x80004005 general failure. When I tested the soundblaster I got sound and no failure.This is also on the screen. microsoft synthesizer:kernel mode no. default port yes. soundblaster kernel mode yes. default port no.I did a regestry scan no problems.Any help. I am about out of hair.
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