re: Flaky soundcard
Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 9:47 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5827 messages posted)
I've seen many computers without the analog cable installed, so if the machine/software
isn't using digital playback, but rather analog, such as older machines and operating
systems used, there won't be any sound either. Might be worth checking.. If it's
running digital, the headphone jack on the ROM will either not work or it will be
the loud digital "hash" noise. If it is running analog, there will be sound coming
from the jack.
On Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:55 am, DNA wrote:
>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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