Would SCANREG / RESTORE work for this audio problem?
System restore doesn't. The following solution is not helping my current problem 
unfortunately.

I recently had a similar problem with the graphics card and driver which was solved 
by Jack Gulley:

re: Stuck in 640 X 480 
Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 6:38 pm
Posted by Jack Gulley (5541 messages posted) 

If you can not change the display resolution to higher settings period, then the 
display drivers are not loaded for some reason. If you can change them, but they 
go back to the 640x480 setting when you reboot, that is a different problem. 

In the first case, going to Device Manager, and selecting the display adapter device 
and Removing it and then rebooting should allow Windows ME to search the system for 
the old drivers and install them again. If not, you will have to locate a copy of 
them and install them. 

It sounds to me like you have some software or Malware problem shutting the system 
down and the Registry gets corrupted in the process. It is also possible that your 
video adapter driver program files have been corrtupted somehow and it might be necessary 
for you to replace them.") 




Thanks again for all your help. Richard







On Friday, December 9, 2005 at 11:39 am, Richard wrote:

>I am at the end of this thread and at the end of the rope I am hanging myself with. 

>My sound is gone, my soundcard (Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value) is installed 

>but clicking on "Sounds and Audio Devices" only shows greyed out options. I have 

>no sound

>control, no sound icon in task bar. "Sounds and Audio Devices" window from the control 

>panel has the "Volume", "Audio", and "Voice" Tabs greyed out with "No Playback Devices" 

>"No Media Devices" etc. showing in the greyed out dropdowns, indicating no sound 

>system installed.

>OS is ME and I've tried re-installing the sound card with the Dell supplied CD which 

>gets hung up and doesn't finish loading. I've downloaded drivers and installed them 

>with no success. I've tried most of the suggestions in this thread except for the 

>XP suggestions. (I wish people wouldn't post in the incorrect forum? It's not helpful!) 

>Any other ME help out there for this problem please? One more thing, my shift>left 

>mouse click or shift>arrow to highlight text, or select a number of files etc... 

>is not working. RC

>

>

> 

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