Sound Card Conflict - No Audio

Find out what other application is using it. Use task manager window (ctrl-alt-del) to delete the other programs one by one. If no luck, remember there are processes that aren't shown. Then go to start>run>msconfig>startup tab, note the setting of the checkboxes and uncheck everything except systray. Reboot and check audio. Then reset the checks one by one until you found the culprit.

No guarantee for success, but a rather good chance.

Hope this helps.


Kees

Read http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger75/phoneout/phoneout-27.html and you discover this was one of the bad things about
98. After this many years most have learned about this.
But what I'm discovering is that people toss out a 98
machine and a new generation gets to rediscover these
limits and retained bugs.

Another time this happens is when the sound card drivers
are not full duplex. Again this floors the users that
inherited the beasts as they learn that Microsoft
didn't supply drivers or any reliable method to identify
then locate current drivers.

Hint? Read the article above, find the latest sound
card drivers for this OS and reveal the history
of the owner and machine so that members can respond
at the proper level. I no longer write much more than
"remove this line from the .ini file" today for 95, 98
and Windows ME posters since they've had 6 to 11 years
to learn how to edit a file.

Telling more gets you a better tailored response.

Bob