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No Sound Card response

Okay,

My computer's sound card has been acting strangely. Not through Noteworthy, but my other multimedia programs (like Quicktime or Windows Media Player)won't playback or record anything. My computer has been saying that the sound card is in use. I tried to record MIDI (which I had done many times before) and it keeps saying that the sound card doesn't support recording MIDI, and the whole recording system shuts down until I reboot the comp. I've tried rebooting the computer many times, but it doesn't help. What do I do!?

Re: No Sound Card response

Reply #1 –
Check your sound settings - if you're in Windows, you can right-click on the little speaker icon in the system tray, and that will bring up Volume Controls.  If you're in Win98, you get Play Control, and in there, if you click Options, you should also get recording controls.

You also need to check Audio Properties to see that you have installed the preferred playback and recording devices.

One of the first places to check for help is simply, go to your desktop, press F1 for help, select the troubleshooting dialogue and work through it.

Re: No Sound Card response

Reply #2 –
Apparently,

I did so, my sound volume is normal and the recording tab has all possilbe options enabled (e.g. microphone, what u hear, etc.) because i run windows 98. The thing is, I don't know what is using my sound card all the time. Because of this, it keeps saying that it is in use and i can't record or playback. I have Yamaha SXG Softsynth and the MIDI is awesome, but it's playback (when used as a sound driver) is very skippy and choppy. It won't record either because recording is only possible through a sound card and not just a driver. I don't have any other apps going on and i end task on everything except explorer and systray, but it doesn't work. Am i going to have to reinstall the card (bad), get a new one (worse, i don't have much money on me), or anything else (would be nice).

Re: No Sound Card response

Reply #3 –
Did you go through the troublemaker dialogue (oops, troubleshooter)?

(The skippy/choppy playback thing - I wonder if it could be that your hard disk needs to be defragmented?)

There is another thing that worked for me once when I was using Windows Media Player 7.  Go to Tools, Options, CDAudio and see if turning off Digital playback does any good.

See if you can download freeware called EndItAll - you might have to search Google.com for it, or it might be in the PCMagazie site.  It allows you to see several of the background programs that are running that don't show up in the Close Program window that pops up when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

You can then look up the names of ones you don't recognize in the Task List at http://www.answersthatwork.com/  (You might find a useful driver there too.)

Check this out:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article01-420

and then go here too:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category07

While the following site is intended for debugging problems that arise with one product, some of the FAQs might be helpful generally:  http://www.comprousa.com/support/faq/sound.htm

I think I found this site to be pretty handy once, too:
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

I just found this, and it looks to be a useful page:
http://www.midiworld.com/forum/forum.html

There are many more resources, I'm sure, but I'm going to stop with one last one for now - Microsoft's own support page for win98:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;w98

Good luck.