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erale

10-16-1999, 09:29 PM

I'm trying to help a friend with a packard Bell pc that had modem/sound card problem. A new seperate modem and seperate sound card was installed. Modem works fine and the Sound Blaster 16 card plays music CDrom's jsut fine. The problem is no system sounds. What am I missing here. WIN95 is the operating system.

Ed_S

10-17-1999, 01:07 AM

Check the volume control panel. Possible that the wave sounds are muted, or just turned way down, while the CD Audio is on & up.

erale

10-17-1999, 07:57 AM

Thanks Ed, But this is not a real obvious one this time. The CD player works and I can adjust the volune with the volume control in the tray. It seems for some reason that just the system sounds, like "Windows start" and etc., are not recognized.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

engracio

10-17-1999, 08:59 AM

erale,

Whenever I have a problem like what you describe, it was an irq conflict problem. Check your control panel/setting and see if a yellow symbol is on one of your devices. Specifically in the sound, video and games controller.If it is, you need to change one of the irq's. Hope this help.

erale

10-17-1999, 09:20 AM

Thanks engracio, Control Panel does show 2 yellow flags, one in "Ports" and one in "Mouse". This pc is using a serial mouse and has a modem using Com 4. The port conflict in question simply lists "communication port". There are no conflicts showing for the Soundblaster card.

I wonder if either the modem or mouse could be conflicting with the sound card. It's odd that the CD player works fine and the volume control works.

Dash

10-17-1999, 03:20 PM

My sound card (SB16 but really old) Seemed to want IRQ5 so I went into BIOS and set IRQ5 as Legacy ISA, It doesnt do PNP anymore, But it works good, that could be a solution, good luck

Ygor

10-18-1999, 03:09 PM

Have you verified that the sounds are still assigned in Control Panel Sounds?

erale

10-18-1999, 09:10 PM

Thanks for the responses but I've found the solution to my problem. I selected "use preferred devices only" in CP Multimedia and also changed to configuration 0005 in System/DevicesMgr/sound. The card now works as it should.