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re: I can't get sound from my pcmcia cd drive
Thursday, August 18, 2005 at 6:40 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by woolly
(15 messages posted)
Hi, Jerry,
I am afraid I have failed you. I have reinstalled cd player, which has restored the
shortcut link between the icon and the programme, but no the sound. Mini speakers
here I come! Thanks for all your time.
Woolly
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 11:14 pm, Jerry wrote:
>Hi Woolly:
>
>Great! Having the CAB files on the hard drive is
>just like having the Windows CD. Let's try
>installing (or uninstalling, then re-installing)
>the CD PLAYER.
>
>START -> SETTINGS -> CONTROL PANEL
>Double-click ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS.
>Click the WINDOWS SETUP tab.
>Scroll down to MULTIMEDIA.
>Double-click on MULTIMEDIA.
>Find CD PLAYER in the list.
>If there is a check mark, remove it.
>Close each of the windows with OK.
>
>Reboot the computer (it MAY prompt you to do this
>anyway -- I'm not sure you need this step, but it
>can't hurt.)
>
>Now, go through the whole process again, but PUT
>the check mark next to CD PLAYER.
>This should re-install it, hopefully making all
>the connections correctly.
>
>If there is a prompt telling you to "put your
>Windows CD in the CDROM drive," there should be
>another option that will allow you to "point" the
>installer wizard to where you have those CAB
>files. Sometimes the button is called BROWSE,
>sometimes it's called OTHER LOCATIONS. If your
>original Windows install was done from these CAB
>files, Windows may "remember" this, and just go
>directly to the hard drive CAB files without
>prompting you for the CD disk.
>
>Just for the record, you should have the Windows
>COA number written down somewhere in case you ever
>have to do a complete re-install of Windows from
>the CAB files. You can see the number while
>Windows is running, so write it somewhere you can
>find it when Windows ISN'T running:
>
>Right-click on the MY COMPUTER icon on the
>DESKTOP.
>Select PROPERTIES.
>The COA number is shown in the middle of the panel
>under "Registered to".
>
>Good luck.
>
>Keep us posted.
>
>Jerry
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