Guest Richard H Paul Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 all of a sudden the sound stopped working on most of the applications, but strangely, Music Match Jukebox still has sound. The other media players don't work, I get nothing from internet videos, etc. I am running WinXP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4600 PC. I've never had this problem before. When I open up the Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio I see grayed out areas and the Sound Card is not present. Instead the dropdown list says: Modem 0 or something like that. What could have caused this to happen and how to fix it? thanks
Guest John Tiesi Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Re: sound not working suddenly I have had this happen on several boxes I support. What I do is go to the properties of the Windows Audio Service and set it to restart on fail. "Richard H Paul" <rdpaul@optonline.net> wrote in message news:OmMri.98$2d7.44@newsfe12.lga... > all of a sudden the sound stopped working on most of the applications, but > strangely, Music Match Jukebox still has sound. The other media players > don't work, I get nothing from internet videos, etc. > > I am running WinXP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4600 PC. I've never > had this problem before. When I open up the Control Panel > Sounds and > Audio Devices > Audio I see grayed out areas and the Sound Card is not > present. Instead the dropdown list says: Modem 0 or something like that. > > What could have caused this to happen and how to fix it? > > thanks >
Guest FrankChin Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 RE: sound not working suddenly I got an emachine, for my daughter, and I got a similar problem. Emachine tech support gave me a "detailed" emaol of several pages how to diagnose, but it was of no help. The strange part with my problem is the "sound card" appears when I check in the control panel, in the first minute or so of the startup, so I can go onot "YouTube", play a song, but a few minutes later, the sound card disappears. So, something in the startup sequence knocks it out. Restoring the system to a prior point helped, at it appears an update by from April was the culprit. When the system updated itself again, it no longer worked. Checking the manufacturer of the sound card, there was a bulletin saying a updated driver would help. I did that, but still the same problem. I somewhat solved the problem by setting the system back to a "prior point" and not UPDATING, since May 2007, and so far so good. There's message there that "updates are available to install", and I just don't click it. In other words, if I don't want any problems, I keep the system as is as of April 2007. I didn't do much since as I got busy, and it was just a machine for my 10 year old to play games and surf the net. "Richard H Paul" wrote: > all of a sudden the sound stopped working on most of the applications, but > strangely, Music Match Jukebox still has sound. The other media players > don't work, I get nothing from internet videos, etc. > > I am running WinXP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4600 PC. I've never had > this problem before. When I open up the Control Panel > Sounds and Audio > Devices > Audio I see grayed out areas and the Sound Card is not present. > Instead the dropdown list says: Modem 0 or something like that. > > What could have caused this to happen and how to fix it? > > thanks > > >
Guest FrankChin Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 RE: sound not working suddenly I got an emachine, for my daughter, and I got a similar problem. Emachine tech support gave me a "detailed" emaol of several pages how to diagnose, but it was of no help. The strange part with my problem is the "sound card" appears when I check in the control panel, in the first minute or so of the startup, so I can go onot "YouTube", play a song, but a few minutes later, the sound card disappears. So, something in the startup sequence knocks it out. Restoring the system to a prior point helped, at it appears an update by from April was the culprit. When the system updated itself again, it no longer worked. Checking the manufacturer of the sound card, there was a bulletin saying a updated driver would help. I did that, but still the same problem. I somewhat solved the problem by setting the system back to a "prior point" and not UPDATING, since May 2007, and so far so good. There's message there that "updates are available to install", and I just don't click it. In other words, if I don't want any problems, I keep the system as is as of April 2007. I didn't do much since as I got busy, and it was just a machine for my 10 year old to play games and surf the net. "Richard H Paul" wrote: > all of a sudden the sound stopped working on most of the applications, but > strangely, Music Match Jukebox still has sound. The other media players > don't work, I get nothing from internet videos, etc. > > I am running WinXP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4600 PC. I've never had > this problem before. When I open up the Control Panel > Sounds and Audio > Devices > Audio I see grayed out areas and the Sound Card is not present. > Instead the dropdown list says: Modem 0 or something like that. > > What could have caused this to happen and how to fix it? > > thanks > > >
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