Not sure if this has been tried, but you could always try reinstalling
Multimedia, which includes all the codecs and such. Go into the
Control Panel, under Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup, uncheck
Multimedia, apply, reboot, go back in and recheck it, reapply, and
reboot. See if that helps.

Ernie Goens

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:15:13 -0600, you wrote:

>Hello again,
>
>There was no responses to this from the previous
>posting. Anyone have any ideas? Please!?
>
>------------
>
>I'm having an interesting problem with a sound card
>configuration on a Win98SE machine. The card and
>speakers work fine to play CDs but no longer play
>windows sounds, MIDI, etc. If I play a midi file in
>Multimedia Player 6 it looks fine, but there's no
>sound and the speaker and volume icons are both
>greyed out. Am I correct to deduce from this that the
>card is in OK?
>
>When I go into Control Panel and select Multimedia,
>the two sound items (play and record) are greyed out
>and you can't change anything. If you go to the
>Windows directory and try to run sndvol32.exe it
>won't run. Running sndrec32.exe results in a
>message saying the card is not properly installed.
>
>So off we go to control panel, System, and reinstall
>the sound drivers and still no dice. By the way in
>properties it says everything's just hunky dorey - no
>conflicts and that it's functioning fine. Should I take
>out the card and reinstall it physically in the machine?
>
>The owner of this machine installed a bunch of
>funky sounds from Dangerous Animals and then
>played around with a bunch of settings to get rid of
>them - well, they succeeded. ;) In Control Panel,
>Sounds the tester is greyed out also when you select
>one of the wave files to test as if there were no wave
>attached to the incident.
>
>So my suspicion is that there's some checkbox
>somewhere that's checked and shouldn't be or
>shouldn't be and is. Any help, including the obvious,
>greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA,
>
>Eric
>
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