Bad Things Are Happening

[Steve]

I am running XP Pro on a LeadTek K7NCR18G board with
I Gig Dual Channel RAM and a LeadTek GeForce FX5600XT
video card and a LeadTek 2000XP Deluxe TV card.

Everything worked well then something happened which I
cannot isolate. I have sound coming out of the speakers.
Default beeps - Windows error beeps - happen and so does
the sound from the TV card. Media player says that there
is a problem with my sound device and that no sound device
may be installed. NForce tray options (in the task tray) report
that it failed to initialize the NVIDA audio driver. Please install
and try again.

When I start the TV tuner I get a message about not being able
to preview the audio stream and can only get a pic after I start
recording. If I stop the recording the pic shrinks to a PIP image
and then, after turning this off, I get a full sized pic. Recording
does not work. Sound cannot be controlled in the TV tuner app
and mute does not work. Sound can be controlled on the speakers
only but the system still thinks that there is no sound system.

When I start the radio tuner I get a message about not being able to
open the recording device or the mixing device. Sound controls do
not work here either.

Configuration options indicate that there is no sound system on
my computer.

I have tried everything I can think of. Someone tell me what
to do now please.

This is a new machine and there is a possibility that it is a
hardware problem.

Steve.

 

[stevemiller]

Did you try clicking start>run>type"dxdiag"w/o("")>OK. On
the directX diagnostics window that opens note the version
of DirectX that you have, you may need to run a later
version of DirX, like 9.0 or something. then Perform all
of the tests, especially those pertaining to your problem,
it may help to isolate the problem. (I had a problem with
DirectPlay8 and had to re-install DirectX 9.0)

MS windows XP update has an update for Nvida graphics
cards not sure if it is for XP pro as well. Also check
Device manager for conflicts, you may have to change the
resource settings if there is. Make sure all drivers are
digitally signed and its "made for windows XP" I didn't
and had a hella time.