Cannot play Win95 Sounds

[BarryS]

I've just installed Win95 on a IBM 486 machine. Internal PC speaker is installed and beeps during bootup tests as expected. However, will not play any Win95 Default Sounds or other schemes. Even when I select a sound in Control Panel, the play button is dimmed so I cannot preview it. Device Manager shows my speaker being present and working. What am I missing?

[This message has been edited by BarryS (edited 06-06-2000).]

[Euthorus]

What kind of sound card do you have and did you install the drivers for it?

[tantone]

Make sure that your sound card is installed with the correct drivers. In Control Panel-->Multimedia make sure you select the correct devices to play back the audio with.

[BarryS]

No sound card installed due to conflicts I could not resolve from first installation. I have reformatted the drive and installed Win95 from scratch. Even when sound card was working, for awhile, the Play button for Sounds under Control Settings still remained dimmed. Besides, I thought at least the Default sounds like Critical Stop always work with just the internal speaker.

[howste]

By default the internal speaker won't play the Windows sounds. Back in the Windows 3.1 era I found a driver that let the PC speaker emulate a sound card and play sounds (can you say "awful noises?"). I have no idea if there is still such an animal or not.

Good luck,

Steve

[Euthorus]

Nope, not unless you have a Compaq or something like that, that has a gnarlier speaker built into it. Your Internal PC Speaker will play only the Motherboard/Interface sounds, it is not capable of decoding audio from your OS environment.

[BarryS]

Thanks everyone! Now I know.

Barry