Sound/audio Trouble shooter

[Mike31z]

Does any one know were I could doun load a audio trouble shooter.

I have followed the windows trouble shooter about 3 windows deep including reconfigure the MIDI in the multimedia section of the control panel.

I can not get the volume icon into the system tray.

The area were i would click to get the icon in sys tray is grayed out.


any suggestion?


mike In wisconsin.

[Murf]

Click Start.
Go to Settings and then Control Panel.
Double Click the Multimedia icon.
Select the Audio tab.
At the bottom of the window check the "Show volume control on the taskbar" box. This is greyed out???????

[Miz]

Ooops...sorry...posted a fix for Windows XP. Once again, confused about which forum I'm in. :dizzy:

[Mike31z]

I found that in the Multimedia Properties under under Playback you need some thing other then "any usable device" to get it ungrayed. I now have a volume control in my system tray.
When I open up Volume Control and have a CD inserted I can see the volume bar move up and down but still can not hear thru speakers. I have used directx under MS system Info to test all music/sound options and can not hear any thing. when I hook up a mic I can see the reaction to my voice but not hear it.
I thin my problem is codec and I am re-viewing them against 2 another close by computers to see the diference in listings.

I am also looking at the driver listed in the system.ini file and comparing them also.

all machines are upto date win 98 a just different speeds

I think the codec are my problem.

[Mike31z]

when I compare data between to win 98 computers in the "system.ini"
I noticed two things. my mciwave.drv was missing. I sfc extracted it from win95 disk.
under the (drivers) its is referenced and under (mci) its referenced as

waveaudio=mciwave.drv 4

the number 4 has some meaning that could reveal my problem. My other computer has the same entry except for the 4.

I am not sure a new sound card would fix the problem.


I did find a trouble shooter from the MS help files.

there web site is www.headbands.com/gspot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot) its is free ,

the report from its run is I have no audio channel.

I tried to install sound blaster from dos and the error was no "PCI audio Driver not installed"

[Mike31z]

I removed the sound card installed win98 and corrected all the yellow question marks. in the device manage box. then installed the sound card and driver .

Low and Behold the system sound beeps started working. Later tonight I start updateing windows.


I keep post going untill I get window all the way updated.