no WINDOWS noises!!!midi??

[Guest]

I have home ed, sp2. Music, videos, cd's all play sound fine. BUT, all
windows own sounds are gone. no beeps, dings or dongs, no email
notifications, msn nudges, or sound effects. Windows DOES play a tune on
startup and shutdown.
I have checked the sound profile and I have one active, HOWEVER, the
'preview' button for the individual sound is not active. In my sounds
properties, the default MIDI player is empty, i click on it and select my
sound board,(its the only one there), and uncheck the 'use default only' then
apply and close.
If i re-open it again straight away, it's back to how it was before, empty
with the 'use default only' checked again.
I cant change the midi voice and it stays changed, it keeps reverting to
previous state.
I have installed no new hard/software recently and a system restore DIDNT
help.
thanks for taking the time to read.
please help!!!
Bry25

 

[Chris Laarman]

bry25_uk ([email protected]) in
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I have home ed, sp2. Music, videos, cd's all play sound fine. BUT, all
windows own sounds are gone. no beeps, dings or dongs, no email
notifications, msn nudges, or sound effects. Windows DOES play a tune
on startup and shutdown.
I have checked the sound profile and I have one active, HOWEVER, the
'preview' button for the individual sound is not active. In my sounds
properties, the default MIDI player is empty, i click on it and
select my sound board,(its the only one there), and uncheck the 'use
default only' then apply and close.
If i re-open it again straight away, it's back to how it was before,
empty with the 'use default only' checked again.
I cant change the midi voice and it stays changed, it keeps reverting
to previous state.
I have installed no new hard/software recently and a system restore
DIDNT help.

Your system sounds will only sound (at the appropriate times) when the
corresponding sound files are present in the place where they are sought AND
selected AND the system is configured to play them. And obviously when your
sound card is configured correctly.
Note that there always is a sound scheme active. You could (re)build your
own by matching the Program Events with Sounds, then save that Sound Scheme.

MIDI has nothing to do with this, but reversely MIDI needs a working sound
system.
If you should have a notebook computer with a Realtec AC97 sound card (or a
similar situation), then you have the MIDI-functionality in software rather
than hardware, and you should select the Microsoft GS Wavetable software
synthesizer (unless you have a better option).

As to "Use only default devices": read the balloon text when you click the
question mark (top, right) and subsequentially that message.
I'd think that you can leave that box unchecked. If Windows re-checks it
itself, that would point to some misconfiguration. You might be able to find
and fix that by using a diagnostics program.

 

[Guest]

I have tried to build my own profile but there is still NO SOUND, I cannot
have a midi driver as it is automatically removed when i close the window and
re-open it.
All direct x sound tests have passed. the sound card is an onboard one and
all drivers have been uninstalled and reinstalled twice, with no effect. All
sound files are present in their respective places and all play through
winamp when played directly.

thanks