No Windows sounds but do have WMP sounds

[Guest Another Brian]

I'm so confused. I've just finished rebuilding an old Gateway PC. This

morning I had Windows sounds (the logon ta-da and other beeps and

boops) but audio CD's wouldn't make any sound. Playing wav files

through WMP did not do anything. I then updated the audio drivers

downloaded from Gateway for this PC. Now I can play any media through

WMP, but the Windows sounds do not work. When I go into Control Panel

| Sound and Audio Devices Properties, Volume tab, it says "No Audio

Device". When I go to the Sounds tab and try playing any of the sounds

such as Asterisk, I get the error message:

 

Windows cannot play the sound %SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP Error.wav

 

When I go into Device Manager, there was a question mark next to

Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver. I couldn't find

anything about it on the Gateway driver list. Searching Google came up

a suggestion to delete this driver and reboot. If it wasn't

automatically found, then to scan for hardware changes. It wasn't

found.

 

Any suggestions on how to get Windows to beep at me.

 

Brian

[Guest Rey Santos]

RE: No Windows sounds but do have WMP sounds

 

Chances are either you have on board audio or you have sound blaster live

audio card like my old Gateway PC. You have to disable your onboard sound in

the BIOS to use Soundblaster. If you have soundblaster its also possible

that when you reinstalled it changed the digital output signal. Go to

advanced properties and try to check or uncheck the digital output box and

see if you get sound.

 

 

--

Rey

 

 

"Another Brian" wrote:

> I'm so confused. I've just finished rebuilding an old Gateway PC. This

> morning I had Windows sounds (the logon ta-da and other beeps and

> boops) but audio CD's wouldn't make any sound. Playing wav files

> through WMP did not do anything. I then updated the audio drivers

> downloaded from Gateway for this PC. Now I can play any media through

> WMP, but the Windows sounds do not work. When I go into Control Panel

> | Sound and Audio Devices Properties, Volume tab, it says "No Audio

> Device". When I go to the Sounds tab and try playing any of the sounds

> such as Asterisk, I get the error message:

>

> Windows cannot play the sound %SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP Error.wav

>

> When I go into Device Manager, there was a question mark next to

> Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver. I couldn't find

> anything about it on the Gateway driver list. Searching Google came up

> a suggestion to delete this driver and reboot. If it wasn't

> automatically found, then to scan for hardware changes. It wasn't

> found.

>

> Any suggestions on how to get Windows to beep at me.

>

> Brian

>

>

>

[Guest Another Brian]

Re: No Windows sounds but do have WMP sounds

 

Thank you, Rey. The Gateway does not have MB integrated sound so I

could not turn it off. Flipping the digital/audio box didn't help

either as that only applied to the CD/DVD drives which was working.

You did, however, lead me to look through the sound item in Device

Manager. When I looked at the Media Control Devices properties I

discovered that the (MCI) Midi Sequencer had been configured to use

the phone modem instead of the sound card. Once I switched it to use

the sound card, everything started working correctly. Thank you again

for pointing me in the right direction.

 

Brian

 

"Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:969ADC87-42E5-4DD8-8D4A-704972EBF8D2@microsoft.com...

> Chances are either you have on board audio or you have sound blaster

> live

> audio card like my old Gateway PC. You have to disable your onboard

> sound in

> the BIOS to use Soundblaster. If you have soundblaster its also

> possible

> that when you reinstalled it changed the digital output signal. Go

> to

> advanced properties and try to check or uncheck the digital output

> box and

> see if you get sound.

>

>

> --

> Rey

>

>

> "Another Brian" wrote:

>

>> I'm so confused. I've just finished rebuilding an old Gateway PC.

>> This

>> morning I had Windows sounds (the logon ta-da and other beeps and

>> boops) but audio CD's wouldn't make any sound. Playing wav files

>> through WMP did not do anything. I then updated the audio drivers

>> downloaded from Gateway for this PC. Now I can play any media

>> through

>> WMP, but the Windows sounds do not work. When I go into Control

>> Panel

>> | Sound and Audio Devices Properties, Volume tab, it says "No Audio

>> Device". When I go to the Sounds tab and try playing any of the

>> sounds

>> such as Asterisk, I get the error message:

>>

>> Windows cannot play the sound %SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP

>> Error.wav

>>

>> When I go into Device Manager, there was a question mark next to

>> Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver. I couldn't find

>> anything about it on the Gateway driver list. Searching Google came

>> up

>> a suggestion to delete this driver and reboot. If it wasn't

>> automatically found, then to scan for hardware changes. It wasn't

>> found.

>>

>> Any suggestions on how to get Windows to beep at me.

>>

>> Brian

>>

>>

>>