Flaky soundcard
Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:55 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DNA
(549 messages posted)
If you happened to be playing an audio CD in Windows 98 when you're 'not hearing'
sound, your picture of your Audio Properties shows that the "Mute" box under "CD
Audio" is checked. You'd have to uncheck that to hear an Audio CD!
A few months ago, I replaced a SB Live! Value sound card in a customer's XP computer
that got 'finicky'. It would play some sounds but not others, and which sounds it
would play were different with every bootup (ie: the DVD sound wouldn't work after
the first cold boot, but it would work after a warm reboot, which system sounds
would play were 'variable', etc.).
As in your case, the driver and Device Manager entry were OK, which suggests that
the sound card hardware itself is the issue. Since a new 6-channel PCI sound card
was $10, the fix was all too easy!
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Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home
Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro
IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2
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