Joel,

I think John is on the wrong track.  Muting the speaker will
cause the sound to be turned off, but would not cause an error
message of any type, especially a message stating that
"... no DEVICE is available..."

This kind of error message is typically due to a resource
conflict and/or a wrong setting for the sound card drivers
in one (or both) of the DOS files CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT

Since you have confirmed that it is not a resource conflict,
then it must be a wrong setting for the DOS level device driver.
I suggest you get out the manual for the sound card and
look up and confirm each of the "switches" and parameters that
are being used in the config and autoexec statements.

Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Joel BLuming
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 1998 10:16 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Yamaha Sound
>
>
> Dear John and Listers
>
> Thanks for your reply
>
> I have checked the volume control, and have even installed the new MS
> media player. To no avail. When I try to play a wave file I get a message
> that there is no device available to play it. Midi still plays fine.
>
>
> On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:57:12 -0500 (EST) John Rinehart
> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >Joe,
> >
> >Another possibility is that the volume for the wave files is either
> >muted or
> >turned off.

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