XP and Lost System sounds

thecivvie

Recently and as far as I can see my XP Home box suddenly lost all system sounds, macromedia flash files don't play, ie waiting for sound output. If I goto the Control Panel sound option and click the Sound stab, the button to play the sound file is grayed out. I have tried all the usual reg fixes to sort this out to no avail. Winamp and media player work okay. I am getting worked up over it as the kids need it for their stuff

Karoma

When you say WMP and Winamp work okay: do they play sounds on the HDD OK? (As opposed to playing CD,etc.)

thecivvie

Yeah plays MP3 WMV and wav files ok. I even uninstalled Winamp but that made no difference. I am totally lost, all I can think is that there is something in the reg stopping it but as I said none of the reg fixes have worked

wavin

tcob1 wrote:

Yeah plays MP3 WMV and wav files ok. I even uninstalled Winamp but that made no difference. I am totally lost, all I can think is that there is something in the reg stopping it but as I said none of the reg fixes have worked

have you looked at your sound card in device manager??
normally says if things are workin ok there

hshortt

Open your control panel applet for Sounds and Audio Devices, click on the Audio Tab, what is listed as the default device for playback? and can you change it?

Another option would be to open device manager, go to Sound, Video and Game Controllers and one by one, highlight the listed objects and delete them. (some won't delete, but if you know your sound device name, then go straight to that one and delete it.) Confirm the deletion, and when you are finished, restart the PC. Device Manager will automatically discover your 'new hardware' and configure it.

Cheerio
Howard

thecivvie

I was playing last night and noticed that I cannotset the default player for MIDI. But I will delete the lot tonight when I get home from work