I have no sound, message reads another action has control of the sound! Can not
find problem please HELP!!!!
Its probably not installed properly. I was putting in a cheapo, c-media
6 channel soundcard in someone's system yesterday and it wouldn't play
ball, and I'm sure I got that message, despite the fact that it showed
up in device manager and the 'device was working properly'. Looking in
control panel under 'multimedia' and the 'playback' and 'recording'
options were greyed out.
It wasn't until I updated drivers using a set for a similar (4 channel
c-media) soundcard on another cd that things got working. When I looked
in device manager not only was the card showing under 'sound, video and
game controllers', but also mpu 401, legacy dos compatibility drivers,
and one other. These were not there after the original install and
appeared to be the cause of the problem. Looking in control ->
multimedia now showed the c-media device available for record and
playback. When I tried updating back to the 'so called' correct drivers
off of the cd that came with the card, those extra items disappeared
from device manager, and so did the sound again.
None too sure why that particular soundcard required those extra bits,
though certainly mpu 401 seems necessary as it is also on this machine
that I'm using.
Btw, you didn't say which card you are using, perhaps you need to d/l
some driver updates off the net and try installing those, that's what I
plan for the card I'm having problems with.
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Having just got off the net and downloading updated drivers for my own
c-media problem, I have read that, in my own particular case there are
two sets of drivers - VxD and WDM - which are applicable to the Windows
os that you are using. The VxD are supposedly for up to win98SE and the
WDM for ME, XP, NT and win2k. It could well be that I, and possibly
you, tried using the wrong ones for the o/s, or the install program just
plain chose the wrong ones. Try doing a manual update of the drivers,
browsing for and appropriate folder and if one lot doesn't work then try
the others.
I've just tested this on the other computer and it worked. The wrong
drivers (in this case the WDM on a win98SE machine) were being
installed.
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