re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 4:52 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Andy (3 messages posted) Simply installing another media player is only masking a more fundamental problem. I would prefer to remedy the root cause. I did however try to install and run the VLC media player, but couldn't get it to run at all, it seemed like there are a number of .dll files it can't find. Written in response to: re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (gewg_: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 11:46 am) Responses to this message: re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (gewg_: Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 11:29 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (Andy: Fri, Nov 13, 2009, 4:18 am) re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (Steve: Fri, Nov 13, 2009, 8:42 am) re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (Andy: Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 4:38 am) re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (gewg_: Fri, Nov 13, 2009, 11:46 am) re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (Andy: Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 4:52 am) re: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available. (Error=00040258) (gewg_: Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 11:29 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum