On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:15:41 -0500, "Jackal" <jackal_m28@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Why would I need to see what the sound scheme says? I already said that it
>was not set to "no sound".
I could say, 'because I said so'.
You have to RULE out what LOOKS like it's set right. Relying on memory to
troubleshoot a problem, is a sure way to wind up checking the same thing over
and over again, until you have it written down, with a check mark when you've
checked it.
Here's a huge list of things to check below. Step thru them THOROUGHLY.
The sound scheme has many different settings.
1 There is the 'no sound scheme'
2 There is the 'windows sound scheme'
And then under each option, there are individual sounds. They are WAV files.
There's a little arrow to the right of each entry that 'IS DEFINED'. Scroll
down 'find default beep' see if it has something defined. Then test it. If it
works, test all those defined. You may have deleted the actual files.
>I can play music, and movies and even games but windows sounds are silent.
>Mute is off, volume is up. It is not set to "no sound". I'm running vista
>with all updates. Sound card has all updates. This is a laptop so there are
>no speakers attached to check on.
Has to be a speaker somewhere, you hear the other stuff thru it. You can't
create sound thru plastic. There's obviously nothing wrong with the speaker
you're using.
Are you sure it's ALL windows sounds ? I have maybe 3 that I hear regularly,
the boot sound in my CUSTOM sound scheme, the default beep, and the LOGOFF
sound.
Other than that the sounds are pretty much silent.
IOW: Who cares about a windows sound scheme ? The catastrophic failure sound
will probably fail in the catastrophic smoke escaping from the computer case
anyway's.
I've seen the beeps on my email program disappear with EXTREME multitasking.
try the default beep ie: stick it on a function key to test the sound. IOW:
Make sure the PATH to the sounds still exists.
Take and stick that CPU usage toy in the sidebar, and see if it isn't pegged
out at the max.
I have an orange speaker icon to realtek HD audio manager in the tray. right
click and open yours if it's there.
This one here [for me] has many 'DEFAULT' devices, I have check marks on line
in and speakers.
See if you haven't checked something else. Then uncheck it. Also see if any of
the speakers on any of these are red xed out.
Windows if nothing else has many off switches for the SAME damn thing. And
there's always a chance to miss one of those off switches. But Windows doesn't
miss them, it just doesn't tell you where they are or what the Systems status
is.
speaking of. Did you use '%SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s' in the RUN
box, and see if any of the devices are flagged ?
while you're in the tray see if you have a white speaker with blue sound waves
coming out. volume mixer. Open it and see if anything is muted..
> Any ideas?
Yes.. See all above. I'm now leaning to extreme multi tasking or something
toggled in sound manager.
Also sound scheme fiddled with. All of which has happened on my machine.
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>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:46:00 -0500, "Jackal" <jackal_m28@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> "Jackal" <jackal_m28@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:40BDB00D-1D58-4DBD-A2E0-C619DF043B51@microsoft.com...
>>>>>I can play music, and movies and even games but windows sounds are
>>>>>silent.
>>>>>Mute is off, volume is up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>
>> see what the sound scheme says.
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