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Old September 25th 04, 09:32 PM
Terry
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Default 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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Old September 25th 04, 10:44 PM
Jeff Richards
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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.
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"Terry" wrote in message
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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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Old September 25th 04, 11:29 PM
Nigel Stapley
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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

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Nigel Stapley

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