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My sound is disabled. My sound programs won't work because Windows says there isn't a device - when I KNOW there is a device to do so. My sound card has given me no warning signs of self-destruction, which is why this concerns me. I was mixing two very high-quality sound files together - i saved both luckily - and while was once was playing just fine, I closed the other file I no longer needed, and my comp froze. I restarted of course, let Scandisk run and my sound was GONE. I've tried re-installing drivers, searching for drivers, hardware and devices, but NOTHING IS WORKING. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Everyone knows I'm on WinME so i'm hoping it's just some stupid glitch related to it. |
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Here, I'll email you an mp3 of me burping. That should be as good, if not better, than the quality of your previous sounds. |
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No, I have NO SOUND AT ALL. Can't hear a thing with a single program. The sound card is a Crystal WM Audio card. |
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Someone please!! It's an emergency!!! |
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turn on your speakers. |
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Did you try the main volume control? *pretends I'm tech savy, and also pretends to be confident that "tech savy" means what I think it means* |
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the VOLUME CONTROL isn't even appearing. The little sound speaker at the bottom right of the screen hasn't even appeared. i checked the speakers - they're fine. |
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suggestion: |
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thanks, but that doesn't help much. |
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MinME sucks ass, I can't say I have ever had this happen before but I will try to help. If you go to My computer, Controll Panel, Open up device manager, look for the faulty sound device. Right click it (there maybe more than one, if so do the same for all) and choose Uninsatall or delete or remove (i cant remember what ME calls it) The turn off your pc, unplug it and take out the soundcard. Then reboot your pc without the sound card. Then shut down the pc, and unplug. Reinsert the sound card, reboot the pc and reinstall the drivers. Then try shutting down and rebooting one more time with the soundcard inside. |
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well go to, uh, ... like, uh, "my computer", "windows" or something and like "control panel" or something like that, ooh ooh, I know go to the start menu and search for "banana", no wait search for "volume". That might work. But probably not. |
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thank you. okay i'll try it. would DISABLED DEVICE likely be the culprit? |
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Only do this if your are comfortable taking apart your pc and if you have the installation software for the soundcard. This is not guarenteed to work, but it cant make it any worse than it already is right! |
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sounds reasonable. i'd go with that. |
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if it says the device is dissabled then first right click it and try to enable it. |
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tried to enable it - not working no name - just Disabled Device - manufacturer: Crystal tried to update drivers - "the best driver for this hardware is already installed." shit! |
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then try my earlier advice, if it does not work after this then your sound card is probably screwed, maybe due to an electrical surge, or maybe your music was just too damn good for it to handle :) , these things do happen |
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alright. see you all tomorrow or later tonight with an update... i do hope this works.... |
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maybe due to an electrical surge haha that reminds me of a time when my neighbors hard drive was literally FRYED. Smoke came out of the case and I opened it up and there was a huge black burn mark on the hard drive. and everything was lost. sorry that was off-topic. |
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I used to have winME. My olume control thing disapeared after awhile, thoug I still had sound. I've never had an OS rot as fast as winME. If you ever try win2k you will never go back. I urge you to backup all imported data and get win2k. |
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hahah, never seen it first hand but heard many stories , hopefully this will not be the fate of oddioblender's pc (unless he doesn't know what a sound card looks like and tries to puul out something else) |
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If he only has the onbaord sound, which is what it sounds like, he may have some difficulties removing it depending on what kind of computer he has. Lots of onboard sound chips can't be removed. They are usually marked clearly as to what they are. One of my computer has a chip that says the brand and has the chipset on it. It cannot be removed. Fortunetaly I have an audigy 2 platinum in my nice computer. |
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Shit! I didn't even think of that, i just assumed we were talking about a pci sound card. Is he likely to know NOT to attempt to remove the onboard chips? :( |
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Some people don't know better, but I would hope that once you see that it's attatched and it isn't coming off easily. If I were him I would just get win2k and a real soundcard. The onboard soundcards are almost always shit. I have one system that has lots of nice things in it. My other two are useless, except one is always downloading me goodness without weighing down my good machine. I need a motherboard and cpu for a system I am building to host all my files to all of my computers. The point is that they all run win2k except my expensive machine, (winXPro) and they run it well. I've had one on for over a month without a crash. I despise everything about winME. |
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XP! |
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I totally agree, WinMe should never have been released. Setting up a small home LAN is cool, its much easier and faster to move/share files, plus you can play some good games against real opponents, Quake 3 and Doom are my favourites, i don't think i could ever get tired of killing my little sister :) I've never tried 2k though i've heard lots of good things about it , 98SE was the best thing i had seen before i jumped to XP. |
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I'd still use 98se except it doesn't support ntfs partitions. And it seems it doesn't support drive 80gb and up very well eithor. I only have on HD that is smaller than 80gb and I don't feel like installing ata cards. Plus all my drives ntfs. I wish winXP and 2k could run the old games though. There is a fixed version of doom with control pad support that runs on xp though. I think you can download it for free from one of dooms websites. |
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Yeh NTFS beats FAT32 anyday. 98SE had a nice and compact feel to it plus it was easy to tweak. The only thing i dont like about XP is that it seem too 'big' (requires way too much RAM to run) and full of stuff i dont really want or am never going to use. XP is great for easy networking though ! |
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The old games will always be the best, no matter how many times i get bored of them, i know i can always go back to them in a month or so and play them like i've only just bought them :) I'm off to bed now before my nerd becomes too strong to surpress. Hope it turns out ok for oddioblender. |
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start menu>control panel>device manager>sound video and game controllers>remove sound card>refresh its should start over with you putting the drivers in again |
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Usually it will just automatically reinstall the drivers at startup, using the ones currently available. I think his install of WinMe has finally died is all. It happens to any microsoft OS eventually. Linux systems take a long time before they need reinstalled, if ever. |
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Look...for starters: Windows ME does not suck arse Second: it's probly something with your soundcard. If it's not an onboard card, try taking it out and outting it in another slot (windows will install it again automatically if it works) Third: Start out with the build in Windows-drivers (especially if it's a soundblaster-card), and then install drivers only from the softwarepack...that sometimes makes the whole thing run better |
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download partition magic, use it as a boot disk and reformat the primary partition, that usually clear a lot of bugs and shit up, so it muight be worth a try (NO DON'T I WAS JOKNIG DON'T DO THAT!!) |
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to be honest thats all i know pretty much with ME my knowledge of PC's is shit so ill have to take your word for it |
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be more responsible man! I could have been at deleting my partition before i read that last line...bad od_step_cloak! baaaaad! |
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Your the first person I've ever heard say they like WinME. To me and 90% of the people that have used it, it sucks. Nothing personal. Just my opinion and many other peoples. In a situation where the computer is acting screwy I've always found reformating works quite well. Any windows install disc will be able to format the drive. If like me, you have more than drive, you should store all the important data on the non-OS drive. Then you can format and all you need to do is install you OS and apps. I really do suggest win2k/XP/98se over winME, but if you like it I won't argue. |
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you know...it does suck on some PC's your right about that, but I have (with a 350mhz) achieved better driver-support and my musicprograms was running better than on 95/98, BUT with my new computer i stick to windows 2000...windows XP - now THAT sucks! |
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I wouldn't use XP if my hardware on my one machine worked properly on 2k. Every other machine I have uses win2k, including an 350mhz. It runs great to. I've never heard any good things about winME is all, including my own experiences. It was the last os with support for older games, and that was all it had going for it. Win2k networking is also very simple. With XP they just took 2k and made it all fluffy looking and added tons of useless feature for people that shouldn't even be buying a computer and cut some of 2k's best features. I love how in 2k you can click a file and play it on the side of the window. |
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Would anyone be willing to send me Windows 2k? |
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yayayyayay!!! I'm downloadin it as I type! No more WinME for meeeeee!!!!!!! |
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okay i was NOT comfortable with taking apart my computer, so I said fuck it. I wouldn't of known where to begin. The soundcard was built in with the computer when I bought it, so I've never even seen it before, let alone a soundcard. I'll try a few more cheap windows repair tricks, but i think my sound card has bit the dust, and i'm tired of ME. Where can I get 2k? Looks like music writing is temporarily halted. My PC is a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion mx70. |
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kazaa as an obvious choice or soulseek |
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I just got Win 2k from kazaa lite. Use the verified downloads in the kazaa web-browser. Then go to tools, then k-DAT and it should appear. Then right-click on the file and change the status to downloading. then close K-dat and Kazaa and re-start Kazaa again. that bad boy will start downloadin! Once finished, right click on the file and Extract to a folder(you should make one called windows 2000). Once you have done that, make a data disk from the files that are in the folder, but don`t use the folder itself. Then you will have Win 2k!! Oh and have 4 floppy disks so you can make a bootable setup disk and bobs yer uncle!!! Hope that helps |
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Also find out what you soundcard is and download the drivers if you don`t have them as you will need to reinstall them. And you should format your hard-drive aswell. |
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christ - alright. here goes nothing. |
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Yes, WinMe sucks, from experience. |
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actually - i just remembered i have a recovery disk somewhere - i'm gonna try that then install 2x once I get some CDR's. |
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damn - no luck on recovery disk.... looks like i just need to get a new soundcard. |
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btw, are there any known viruses that would do something like this? my comp is acting a bit funny lately.... |
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