WMP10 wiping out my sound card drivers

[sgopus]

recently I used WMP10 to play a midi file, I then used musicmatch to play a
different file and got silence. I had to reinstall my soundcard drivers to
get my sound back, I'm using xp pro the latest svs packs and updates, and
just to test things I tried WMP10 again, sure enough I lost sound,
reinstalled my sound card drives I got music, what's the deal??

Oh yeah, my sound card is creative sound blaster live, I know it's old and
not supported anymore, during this I found my disgnostics software (creative)
wouldn't work either (not found)

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

recently I used WMP10 to play a midi file, I then used musicmatch to play a
different file and got silence. I had to reinstall my soundcard drivers to
get my sound back, I'm using xp pro the latest svs packs and updates, and
just to test things I tried WMP10 again, sure enough I lost sound,
reinstalled my sound card drives I got music, what's the deal??

What's your question?

 

[sgopus]

my question is what's the deal?? as I already stated!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Is your audio adaptor integrated in the mobo? Do you have another adaptor
you can try?

 

[sgopus]

Nope, seperate IDE sound card. I built a new pc to replace this one, as it's
aging, ie the sound card is no longer supported. and it has a slower CPU.

I was considering getting a new sound card, haven't checked out the prices
recently, so will have to do my research, I guess.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

May I recommend NewEgg? Looking at the prices it appears you have many
inexpensive choices.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=36&name=Sound-Cards-MIDI-Devices

 

[sgopus]

I got most of my new pc parts from them, so I'm used to dealing with them.

 

[Doug W.]

Your "tinkering" caused the problem. You figure it out. Why
blame WMP 10? It is not the culprit.
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Jeez...some people's kids.
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