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Windows finds, then loses, sound cards
Hello, I have a problem that I haven't seen here yet, although I expect it is here somewhere. I have a desktop PC, 350 MHz, running Win98SE. One day it "lost" the sound card. I re-installed it, and went through all the steps of installing drivers. Windows said it was installed correctly. But when I try to *use* the sound card, Windows Media Player comes on, then I get an error message that says: "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There may not be a sound device installed on your computer, it may be in use by another program, or it may not be functioning properly." So I put in a different sound card. Same error message. This has now happened for 4 sound cards in 4 different slots ( 2 ISA, 2 PCI ). Now here are the questions: 1. Is the problem more likely to be in . . . (a) the motherboard, not connecting properly with the sound card? (b) the interrupts or some similar resource? (c) Windows 98? (d) Windows Media Player? 2. What can I do about it? Thank you for all replies! Ted Shoemaker |
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