No windows audio control... or audio for that matter !

[Doz]

Hi all,

Wonder if anyone has come across this before:

I have an NForce chipset PC with Athlon XP. Onboard sound and lan etc.
The sound works fine with media player (wav, mp3 and videos) and games but
doesn't work with windows sound effects. Any ideas why?

The default audio device is corrupt in some way. In the control panel I'm
unable to "preview" windows sound effects and the default audio device is
blank... I can choose the Nforce device and press OK but the setting returns
to the blank state again.

I've removed the hardware from "devices" and re-applied the Nvidia drivers
off the website to no avail.

Any ideas what to do next ??

Doz

 

[dev]

Doz said:

Wonder if anyone has come across this before:

I have an NForce chipset PC with Athlon XP. Onboard sound and lan etc.
The sound works fine with media player (wav, mp3 and videos) and games but
doesn't work with windows sound effects. Any ideas why?

The default audio device is corrupt in some way. In the control panel I'm
unable to "preview" windows sound effects and the default audio device is
blank... I can choose the Nforce device and press OK but the setting returns
to the blank state again.

I've removed the hardware from "devices" and re-applied the Nvidia drivers
off the website to no avail.

Any ideas what to do next ??

Start with this read. There may be something there that leads to the
solution...
http://kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

"Where did my sound go?"

 

[Doz]

Thanks.. superb site.. I'll take look when I get home.

Doz