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re: no sound-bad card or driver??? Saturday, February 25, 2006 at 12:06 am Posted by Dan (1278 messages posted) Sometimes a simple removal of the Sound Device in Device Manager, followed by a rebooting of Windows will detect new Hardware and reinstall the Drivers. In Device Manager, scroll down to Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Click on the plus (+.) sign to reveal all (Expand). Click to highlight each Device then the Delete Key, or choose remove. Reboot. The New Hardware wizard will pop up with a message, "Found New Hardware and is installing Drivers, etc. Windows does the work, just let it do it's thing. Dan On Friday, February 24, 2006 at 11:36 pm, Anthony Thannisch wrote: >I run Windows 98SE and have no sound or volume control, just the icon in the entertainment>volume >control. When I clk. open, it does nothing. I've checked the mute, its ok, I have >gone to System>Device Mgr>Sound Cards-highlited>Properties and have the Yamaha OPL3-SAx >and I clicked enable (it was checked to disable and I thought that was wrong so I >took the check off in order to enable the driver. Still no sound. That is the only >driver shown in the menu. How does one tell if it is a bad driver or a sound card >problem? Would definitely appreciate any input. >Thank you, >Tony [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound-bad card or driver??? Saturday, February 25, 2006 at 12:27 am Posted by Tony (53 messages posted) Good morning Dan; Thank you for taking the time to help. I went to Device manager>audio and there was no + sign since Audio seemed to already expanded. Strange since all of the others did have the + and did expand when clicked on. I went to the Audio tab and the entire thing is grayed out. That was in the Multimedia rt. click on that on Control panel>and that is where all of the Audio is already expanded and not any of the others. When I highlite each object under Audio, the properties button does not pop up. However, when I expand any of the categories beneath the Audio, the category expands and when I highlite one of that categories items, the Properties button does turn on. On that opened Multimedia window, if I click on the Audio tab, the entire audio window is grayed. I just went to System>Device Manager tab>Sound, Video & Game Controllers. I clicked on it and it shows that there is a Yamaha OPL3-SAx driver installed and clicking on properties shows that "driver working properly". I am bothered however by the grayed out Audio tab on the Multimedia window that opens when rt. click on Multimedia on Control Panel. Any ideas? I guess since the device mgr. shows that the Yamaha is working properly, it must be the "card" that is messed up but I do not know how to analyze for that. Thanks again. I appreciate it. Tony On Saturday, February 25, 2006 at 12:06 am, Dan wrote: >Sometimes a simple removal of the Sound Device in Device Manager, followed >by a rebooting of Windows will detect new Hardware and reinstall the Drivers. > >In Device Manager, scroll down to >Sound, Video and Game Controllers. >Click on the plus (+.) sign to reveal all (Expand). >Click to highlight each Device then the Delete Key, or choose remove. >Reboot. >The New Hardware wizard will pop up with a message, >"Found New Hardware and is installing Drivers, etc. >Windows does the work, just let it do it's thing. > > > > > > >Dan > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound-bad card or driver??? Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 6:12 am Posted by Jeno (242 messages posted) Anthony - you never said anything about the sound ever working! If in fact it suddenly stopped working, and you did nothing to change settings, I would suspect a bad card or corrupted/lost driver. Try deleting the card and physically remove it. Then re-boot and shutdown. Re-install the card and hope windows sees it and finds a driver for it. On Friday, February 24, 2006 at 11:36 pm, Anthony Thannisch wrote: >I run Windows 98SE and have no sound or volume control, just the icon in the entertainment>volume >control. When I clk. open, it does nothing. I've checked the mute, its ok, I have >gone to System>Device Mgr>Sound Cards-highlited>Properties and have the Yamaha OPL3-SAx >and I clicked enable (it was checked to disable and I thought that was wrong so I >took the check off in order to enable the driver. Still no sound. That is the only >driver shown in the menu. How does one tell if it is a bad driver or a sound card >problem? Would definitely appreciate any input. >Thank you, >Tony [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound-bad card or driver??? Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 7:12 am Posted by kyle johnson (39 messages posted) Jeno, Is there a schematic somewhere on the Internet that I can pull up to show me where the sound card is located? I have never gone into the hardware part of my pc. Thanks. On Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 6:12 am, Jeno wrote: >Anthony - you never said anything about the sound ever working! If in fact it suddenly >stopped working, and you did nothing to change settings, I would suspect a bad card >or corrupted/lost driver. Try deleting the card and physically remove it. Then re-boot >and shutdown. Re-install the card and hope windows sees it and finds a driver for >it. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound-bad card or driver??? Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 8:20 am Posted by Tony (53 messages posted) Jeno; Thanks for writing. I appreciate it. Yes, the sound worked fine up until a month ago or so but I do not use the sound that much. I noticed one day that the little volume icon was no longer on the task bar and when I started looking for it, I found it on Programs>Accessories>Entertainment but when I tried to open it, it would do nothing when I clicked on it. The deeper I went, the more confused I got. Ha How does one remove a sound card? Is it an actual physical card that can be removed if the PC is opened? All of this has to be factory installed on this Dell since I have never done anything but install a new modem a couple of years back. We had a power surge back then and I guess it affected the modem. Got another at Wal-Mart and it worked fine. But I have never worked with the "sound thing". It is an area of quick sand for me and I am apprehensive about doing stuff in the "guts" of the PC if you know what I mean. Let me know about the process and I will gladly give it a try. I had a worm/virus thing and working to get rid of it I guess I deleted something important with respect to the sound. God, I had to delete half of everything in the PC. This thing's name was emailVerified.jsp;jsession......270 more characters in length and the only way I could address it was to delete everything around it and then delete the entire category of "documents". Thanks again, Tony On Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 6:12 am, Jeno wrote: >Anthony - you never said anything about the sound ever working! If in fact it suddenly >stopped working, and you did nothing to change settings, I would suspect a bad card >or corrupted/lost driver. Try deleting the card and physically remove it. Then re-boot >and shutdown. Re-install the card and hope windows sees it and finds a driver for >it. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound-bad card or driver??? Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 8:32 am Posted by Tony (53 messages posted) Jeno; I forgot to add that when I go to Control Panel>System>open>Device Manager tab and scroll down to the Sound, Video and Game Controller and click on the +, it drops down a YAMAHA OPL3-SAx Reserved driver and checking its properties shows that "Driver is working ok" or something to that effect. So, the factory installed Driver is a Yamaha and it is working ok. Must be a card. Where does one get one of those? On Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 6:12 am, Jeno wrote: >Anthony - you never said anything about the sound ever working! If in fact it suddenly >stopped working, and you did nothing to change settings, I would suspect a bad card >or corrupted/lost driver. Try deleting the card and physically remove it. Then re-boot >and shutdown. Re-install the card and hope windows sees it and finds a driver for >it. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum