sound problem

acnelson

I was not able to hear audio on YouTube. On the mixer the YouTube sound was
muteed. Unmuted and works just fine

"Michael Walraven" wrote:

> Mark and Jaimz,
>
> Open the volume mixer (right click speaker, 'Open Volume Mixer')
> Check that the column for 'Windows Sounds' is not muted and has a non-zero
> level.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> "Jaimz" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > I have had a similar problem - I have selected the default sounds theme
> > and
> > when I test the sounds there is nothing. I have the latest sound card and
> > have tested the speakers. There are no other sound problems other than
> > this.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > "Qfreed" wrote:
> >
> >> What happens when you go to Control Panel, Sound icon, Sounds tab and
> >> select
> >> a program event (one for which the test button isn't greyed out)? Do you
> >> hear the sound? Look above the events list and make sure 'No Sounds'
> >> isn't
> >> selected. Use Windows default sound scheme.
> >> --
> >> qfreed
> >>
> >>
> >> "Mark" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hey Please help
> >> > I have vista 32 bit
> >> > my problem is I cant play sound on it I can play any music file I have
> >> > but
> >> > it will not play any other sounds for me
> >> > e.g. When I go to you tube it will not play any sound or even windows
> >> > start
> >> > up or any other windows sounds
> >> > I cant work it out my speakers are ok
> >> > Regards
> >> > Big Mark
> >> >
>

acnelson

I was not able to hear audio on YouTube. On the mixer the YouTube sound was
muteed. Unmuted and works just fine

"Michael Walraven" wrote:

> Mark and Jaimz,
>
> Open the volume mixer (right click speaker, 'Open Volume Mixer')
> Check that the column for 'Windows Sounds' is not muted and has a non-zero
> level.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> "Jaimz" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > I have had a similar problem - I have selected the default sounds theme
> > and
> > when I test the sounds there is nothing. I have the latest sound card and
> > have tested the speakers. There are no other sound problems other than
> > this.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > "Qfreed" wrote:
> >
> >> What happens when you go to Control Panel, Sound icon, Sounds tab and
> >> select
> >> a program event (one for which the test button isn't greyed out)? Do you
> >> hear the sound? Look above the events list and make sure 'No Sounds'
> >> isn't
> >> selected. Use Windows default sound scheme.
> >> --
> >> qfreed
> >>
> >>
> >> "Mark" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hey Please help
> >> > I have vista 32 bit
> >> > my problem is I cant play sound on it I can play any music file I have
> >> > but
> >> > it will not play any other sounds for me
> >> > e.g. When I go to you tube it will not play any sound or even windows
> >> > start
> >> > up or any other windows sounds
> >> > I cant work it out my speakers are ok
> >> > Regards
> >> > Big Mark
> >> >
>

IJ100

Hope this isn't hijacking but seeing as the OP never came back....

I reformated & loaded a new Windows XP for a friend who got a nasty
virus which couldn't be solved by reloading her crappy partioned OEM
version. Her PC is based on a Gigabyte K8VM800M board & I loaded all
the available drivers. The result is the precise same problem as the
OP; no sound for streamed video & audio in a browser and no Windows App
sounds.

I tried playing the Application sounds from the Sounds tab in Sounds &
Audio & received the message "Windows cannot play the sound
%SystemRoot%\media\Widows XP startup.wav. Your sound card may be in
use". I G**gled this message & only got one hit - posted to another
help forum which got no reply. The wav files play fine in MediaPlayer.

Similarly, streamed audio opened in the browser from Media Player also
plays fine as does the "Welcome" and "You have mail" messages when
logging into an A*L account from the same brower. On the other hand,
the lack of audio from eg You Tube videos or embedded audio players such
as in MySpace is the same in every browser I've tried.

I tried uninstalling / reinstalling the hardware but no good. I did
think it might be registry errors, but I don't know why this would
affect these separate audio functions.

If I can't come up with anything else I may have to try reloading from
scratch again but my friend has no patience & (only half-jokingly)
threatened to throw it out of the window of her 2nd floor flat.

Any help much appreciated.

Ian

IJ100

In case anyone's interested, I've finally managed to solve this.

It is normally known as "No Audio Device" which is the information
given on the Volume Tab (on which all options were greyed out) in
_Sound_&_Audio_Properties_ from Control Panel. It seems XP has a
strange habit of sometimes assigning Sound Playback and Sound Recording
functions to the modem instead of the sound card. Modems can only
handle a small subset of sounds and the remainder either don't work, eg
Windows Events or embedded streamed files, or use the defaults of the
programme running them, eg in a Media Player which is already running
through the sound card.

The big give-away is that you hear the Modem dial-up & connection
sounds through your speakers instead of from the back of the PC.
Problem is, how many of use a dial-up connection nowadays?

Reloading XP can fix this but it might simply reproduce the problem -
it seems pretty random.

To fix, open _Sound_&_Audio_Properties_ from Control Panel, go to Audio
tab and in the fields mentioned above, choose the appropriate sound
device from the drop-down menu. Click on Accept and the options on the
Volume tab should now be active.