Sound doesn work

[Nicholas Trask]

I just formatted my hard drive, and shortly after
reinstalling xp all sounds except midi sounds will
sometimes play only for a few seconds before stopping,
and other times not at all. I have a Soundblaster AWE64
and no hardware conflicts.

It happened right after I enabled APM, and disabling APM
again didn't fix it, so I used system restore to go back
to just after xp was finished installing, and that
worked. But the problem came back, and I can't seem to
fix it without restoring all the way back to a fresh
system. Going back to a fresh system every couple days is
not an option, so any ideas?

[Wayne W.]

It may be time to update to a new system. It seems that you have a =
motherboard that supports ISA, and as you should know, motherboard =
manufacturers dumped ISA around 4 years ago. You can get a barebones =
system with CPU + RAM + Motherboard and case for less than 200.00




Wayne

"Nicholas Trask" > wrote in message =
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> I just formatted my hard drive, and shortly after=20
> reinstalling xp all sounds except midi sounds will=20
> sometimes play only for a few seconds before stopping,=20
> and other times not at all. I have a Soundblaster AWE64=20
> and no hardware conflicts.
>=20
> It happened right after I enabled APM, and disabling APM=20
> again didn't fix it, so I used system restore to go back=20
> to just after xp was finished installing, and that=20
> worked. But the problem came back, and I can't seem to=20
> fix it without restoring all the way back to a fresh=20
> system. Going back to a fresh system every couple days is=20
> not an option, so any ideas?

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Well what type of soundcard do you have and do you have
the correct drivers installed for it.

Alvin


Nicholas Trask wrote:

> I just formatted my hard drive, and shortly after
> reinstalling xp all sounds except midi sounds will
> sometimes play only for a few seconds before stopping,
> and other times not at all. I have a Soundblaster AWE64
> and no hardware conflicts.
>
> It happened right after I enabled APM, and disabling APM
> again didn't fix it, so I used system restore to go back
> to just after xp was finished installing, and that
> worked. But the problem came back, and I can't seem to
> fix it without restoring all the way back to a fresh
> system. Going back to a fresh system every couple days is
> not an option, so any ideas?