Guest Another Brian Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 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 Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 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 Posted July 21, 2008 Posted July 21, 2008 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 >> >> >>
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