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Sound problem help please
Win98se
C-Media AC97 sound card 512mb ram Althlon 2.2 system AVG antivirus Ant-Spyware Unstable PC at present and attemting to troubleshoot. When I boot up the default windows "start" sound (microsoft sound) kicks in OK, but it is a broken tune, and wonder if this may be the cause of instabillity errors (0E etc.) in some way as I have read in newsgroups.? When I enable the same sound via control panel\sounds route the sound is NOT broken. I have the latest driver for my sound card, (even deleted\re-installed the driver). I may be totally wrong but can someone give any advice please. TIA |
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There is a known problem where a corrupt sound file can cause a machine to
hang on startup. You can test this by disabling sounds in Control Panel. Without knowing what the errors are it's not possible say whether the sound file could be part of it or not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Terry" wrote in message ... Win98se C-Media AC97 sound card 512mb ram Althlon 2.2 system AVG antivirus Ant-Spyware Unstable PC at present and attemting to troubleshoot. When I boot up the default windows "start" sound (microsoft sound) kicks in OK, but it is a broken tune, and wonder if this may be the cause of instabillity errors (0E etc.) in some way as I have read in newsgroups.? When I enable the same sound via control panel\sounds route the sound is NOT broken. I have the latest driver for my sound card, (even deleted\re-installed the driver). I may be totally wrong but can someone give any advice please. TIA |
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Terry wrote:
Win98se C-Media AC97 sound card 512mb ram Althlon 2.2 system AVG antivirus Ant-Spyware Unstable PC at present and attemting to troubleshoot. When I boot up the default windows "start" sound (microsoft sound) kicks in OK, but it is a broken tune, and wonder if this may be the cause of instabillity errors (0E etc.) in some way as I have read in newsgroups.? When I enable the same sound via control panel\sounds route the sound is NOT broken. I have the latest driver for my sound card, (even deleted\re-installed the driver). I may be totally wrong but can someone give any advice please. TIA Please bear in mind that when your PC is starting up, a lot of different programs, etc. are being initialised during that period. These programs are taking CPU and memory resources, and this is most likely to be causing the startup sound file to chop up. Try setting a different sound for startup (preferably one which is a similar length to your present one, or longer). If that doesn't break up, then as Jeff says, it could be a damaged sound file. If that one behaves the same way, then it's likely to be happening for the reason I've given. There are two things you could do which might remove that problem : either reduce the number of programs you have loading at startup (and Gary S. Terhune has a great set of instructions for "Clean Booting" which might also help diagnostically) ; or run a full defrag on your drive. I find that this tends to help because the startup programs aren't having to look all over the drive for bits of themselves. HTH -- Regards Nigel Stapley www.judgemental.plus.com reply-to will bounce |
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