TSGL: No sound

[Engineman1 at aol.com]

Thanks Don, I was glad to hear from you, I haven't seemed to have any mail  
delay problems so I thought list members were ignoring me.
 
I've spent several days working with HP techs on my problem and they have  
come to the same conclusion you did that it would be best for me to get a sound  
card.
I prefer not to go that way if possible because I have another computer  that 
I bought 3-1/2 years ago that had a weak sound system so I bought a card  for 
it. ave had to reinstall the OS several times since then partly for  
experimental purposes and because of crashes.
Each time I had to go through a lot of hassle to disable the drivers for  the 
onboard sound and reinstall the drivers for the card.
I was about to do that until yesterday when I had a breakthrough.
I had partitioned my HD and installed an evaluation copy of XP Pro on  it for 
access to my dysfunctional regular OS to run virus scanners. When I  booted 
up to it I found that it had sound. This proved to me that the sound  system 
hardware was good and I was having a software problem.
Now I'm wondering if I can copy the drivers from my OS with the good sound  
and install them to the other system. Has any of you ever done this?
 
Engineman
 
<In a message dated 3/6/2007 8:43:32 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
deepend at tpg.com.au writes:

Engineman wrote:
>installed the  recommended
>"ADI  SoundMax AC97 Audio Driver for Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP". Still  no  
>sound. >>


The Soundmax AC97 onboard sound seems to  have been a very troublesome 
beast. Even more so, I suspect, when coupled  with Compaq, which seem to be 
generally rather intolerant of anything  non-Compaq.

I recently had the same AC97 problem on a friend's computer  (not a Compaq). 
I researched it thoroughly, found lots of forums with  similar problems but 
no very satisfactory answers--at least, nothing that  worked on his 
computer, despite trying several drivers, uninstalling and  installing till 
our faces were blue (to say nothing of the  language!).

Finally we installed an old used $5 Soundblaster card and  his sound is now 
better than ever. It only took a few minutes. Much  quicker and easier than 
trying to fix what seemed to be an insoluble  problem.  Maybe the AC97 sound 
chip just dies, as he'd done nothing  unusual to disable it. His computer 
wasn't much more than a year old,  too.

Sorry not to be more help.

Don  Penlington>

<<Engineman wrote:

Several days ago I bought a 20" flat panel monitor and install;ed it  with  
no 
problems. when I installed two applications that came with  it,(one to rotate 
 
the picture and one to adjust the color) my system  crashed. When I rebooted  
Windows barely functioned. Everything ran  slowly and the device manager 
screen 
was blank. I suspected malware so I ran  AVG, Spybot, Kaspesky, McAfee and  
several others, only finding minor  nuisance adware.
I did an XP repair install from my CD. No sound. There was a  yellow  mark 
next to audio devices in device manager  and when I  tried  uninstall 
driver/reinstall driver the yellow mark disappeared  but still no  sound.
I went to the Compaq website and downloaded and  installed the  recommended 
"ADI SoundMax AC97 Audio Driver for Windows  98SE/2000/ME/XP". Still  no 
sound. 
In media player and in "sounds,  speech and audio devices" I get the message  
"no audio device  installed"
I did a repair install again from a different CD.  Still no  luck. Both times 
when I was repair installing I got a message that it   was having a hard time 
finding two files: wmp.ocx and wmpcd.dll. I did a  search  of my system and 
found both in system32. I tried replacing them  from another  machine with 
similar 
characteristics but I don't know if  the replacement  "took."
Still no sound, no audio device. Please   help.
Engineman
Operating System: Windows XP (sp 2)
Computer  Make:  Compaq (6010)
Processor: 130 MHz amd
Memory: 732 MB
Screen  Resolution:  1280 by 1024
Web Browser:  Firefox







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