With a soundcard plugged into one of the PCI slots, audio is perfect.
When I try using the integrated audio, there is just complete silence
from the speakers, regardless of source I select (CD-ROMS, Winamp,
Windows Media Player, CoolEdit)or format (WAV, mp3, cda). Nothing fancy
about my setup: just a set of Labtec powered speakers - left, right,
subwoofer.
I've set the BIOS AC97 Audio setting to Auto and removed the plug-in
sound card to eliminate possible conflicts.
Device Manager doesn't show any problems. Under the Sound, video and
game controllers category, there is an entry called SoundMax Integrated
Digital Audio. (Driver provider: Analog Devices; Date: 7/15/2003;
version 5.12.1.3663) If I go to the Properties tab, there are three
categories: Audio devices, Mixer devices, and MIDI devices. All are enabled.
Despite the clean bill of health from DM, when I attempt to play a WAV
file using CoolEdit96, I get this message: "The current sample format is
not supported by the wave device or driver. Some boards cannot play
non-standard sample rates at all, while other need to be configured
under Control Panel to do so." The odd part is that the WAV file is
standard 44.1K/16-bit stereo.
In Control Panel/Sounds and Multimedia, on the Audio tab the preferred
sound playback device is SoundMax Digital Audio. (The only other option
is for the modem.)
The mixer is C-Media. Odd thing is that everytime I boot, it starts with
all the gain sliders at minimum, so I have to manually raise each to
max. All the input channels are selected; in fact, I can't mute any of
them. Under the Advanced setting, the setting is for 2 speakers with
maximum volume for each.
There is a second mixer that's part of Windows 2000. If I display both
mixers at once, the sliders on one don't affect the sliders on the
other. I can mute any of the channels in the W2000 mixer.
I have downloaded and installed latest version of SoundMax driver. Can't
do the same for the C-Media products because I don't know if I have a
CMI9761, CMI9739/A, or a CMI9738/S.
Thanks for your suggestions for solving: 1) the missing audio problem;
2) C-Media mixer gains always at zero each time I start; 3)non-working
mute controls on the C-Media mixer.
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Ray
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