Vista - Sound Problem

I can play music, and movies and even games but windows sounds are silent.
Mute is off, volume is up.

Any ideas?

Thanks

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:46:00 -0500, "Jackal" <jackal_m28@xxxxxx> wrote:see what the sound scheme says.
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Why would I need to see what the sound scheme says? I already said that it
was not set to "no sound".

I can play music, and movies and even games but windows sounds are silent.
Mute is off, volume is up. It is not set to "no sound". I'm running vista
with all updates. Sound card has all updates. This is a laptop so there are
no speakers attached to check on.

Any ideas?


<keepout@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi.. check that "wave" is on to and its not zero .
Have you updatet the driver?
Not from Vista update, but from you computer webpage?

Greetz


"Jackal" <jackal_m28@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jackal" <jackal_m28@xxxxxx>'s wild thoughts were
released on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:54:43 -0500 bearing the
following fruit:
Click on the speaker icon in the botton right of your
screen.

Click on 'mixer'

Check the 'windows sounds' settings




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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:15:41 -0500, "Jackal" <jackal_m28@xxxxxx> wrote:
I could say, 'because I said so'.

You have to RULE out what LOOKS like it's set right. Relying on memory to
troubleshoot a problem, is a sure way to wind up checking the same thing over
and over again, until you have it written down, with a check mark when you've
checked it.
Here's a huge list of things to check below. Step thru them THOROUGHLY.

The sound scheme has many different settings.
1 There is the 'no sound scheme'
2 There is the 'windows sound scheme'

And then under each option, there are individual sounds. They are WAV files.
There's a little arrow to the right of each entry that 'IS DEFINED'. Scroll
down 'find default beep' see if it has something defined. Then test it. If it
works, test all those defined. You may have deleted the actual files.
Has to be a speaker somewhere, you hear the other stuff thru it. You can't
create sound thru plastic. There's obviously nothing wrong with the speaker
you're using.
Are you sure it's ALL windows sounds ? I have maybe 3 that I hear regularly,
the boot sound in my CUSTOM sound scheme, the default beep, and the LOGOFF
sound.
Other than that the sounds are pretty much silent.
IOW: Who cares about a windows sound scheme ? The catastrophic failure sound
will probably fail in the catastrophic smoke escaping from the computer case
anyway's.

I've seen the beeps on my email program disappear with EXTREME multitasking.
try the default beep ie: stick it on a function key to test the sound. IOW:
Make sure the PATH to the sounds still exists.

Take and stick that CPU usage toy in the sidebar, and see if it isn't pegged
out at the max.

I have an orange speaker icon to realtek HD audio manager in the tray. right
click and open yours if it's there.
This one here [for me] has many 'DEFAULT' devices, I have check marks on line
in and speakers.
See if you haven't checked something else. Then uncheck it. Also see if any of
the speakers on any of these are red xed out.
Windows if nothing else has many off switches for the SAME damn thing. And
there's always a chance to miss one of those off switches. But Windows doesn't
miss them, it just doesn't tell you where they are or what the Systems status
is.
speaking of. Did you use '%SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s' in the RUN
box, and see if any of the devices are flagged ?

while you're in the tray see if you have a white speaker with blue sound waves
coming out. volume mixer. Open it and see if anything is muted..
Yes.. See all above. I'm now leaning to extreme multi tasking or something
toggled in sound manager.
Also sound scheme fiddled with. All of which has happened on my machine.

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Like I said, it's all set up correctly. I've ruled out everything. That is
why I come here in hopes of some advanced knowledge.

<keepout@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:20:29 -0500, "Jackal" <jackal_m28@xxxxxx> wrote:
Then it's obviously working.
FWIW: I just fixed my OnAir TV, on the 2nd account standard user, that wasn't
loading, by turning off the self boot option for control panel, and the HP
advisor, and turning the 'precision' option in the mouse off.

Has NOTHING that I know of on booting the TV, but after a week of it not
working, those 3 things, 1 of them fixed it.
IOW: Make your check list, and check off when you
physically check the item.

It could be anything that's causing the sound to NOT work. Again How much
multitasking is going on when the sounds fail ? Windows sounds NEED memory. My
sounds failed with heavy usage. A reboot, and low usage, restored the sounds.
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Can you play your windows sound files from their folder through a media
player?
DH

"Jan Hyde (VB MVP)" <StellaDrinker@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes they will play. I click on them and they open up the media player and do
their thing.

This is puzzling.

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