Lost Sound in WIN98

[ChrisRChamberlain]

I recently installed and uninstalled a music generating program.<br><br>Windows will no longer play sounds although the CD player(s)<br>work and in Sounds in Control Panel, the schemes and events are enabled.<br><br>I assume this is a registry problem - could anyone point me in the right direction, please?<br><br>TIA<br><br>Chris

 

[clivo]

Chris, I would suggest you first make sure that you have your sound card's drivers handy. Then go to Device Manager, delete all sound / multimedia components, then hit refresh and re-load your drivers.<br> <p>Clive<br><a href=mailto:clive@digitalsky.co.za>clive@digitalsky.co.za</a><br><a href= > </a><br>I assemble and sell these things.

 

[theripper]

Chris -<br><br>Don't over look the super-obvious (volume on mute, speaker cables plugged in, etc...)&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes those programs will mute specific volume features.&nbsp;&nbsp;Double click your volume speaker to double check.<br><br>You can also try the device manager,&nbsp;&nbsp;remove all instances of your soundcard.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hit refresh a few times.&nbsp;&nbsp;This will allow Win98 to re-discover all items.&nbsp;&nbsp;You may want to have your soundcard CD/disk close by incase Win98 asks for them.<br><br>This is the quickest way to edit your registry without using regedit.<br><br>Hope this helps ~

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Clive and TheRipper<br><br>Thanks for your help<br><br>You were both correct - it needed a complete removal of all instances to get the result.<br><br>I was trying to reinstall over the top of existing.<br><br>Chris