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7th August 2008, 10:03 AM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 7,960 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation:  | | | some ,wav will not play
Some .wav files either make no sound or it is very faint and distorted, including the windows sound files. Sound card is SoundMax on board and has the latest drivers installed - OS is XP Pro SP2.
And - there's more - 5.1 surround sound does not come out of the correct speakers (everything is connected as it should be)
Any ideas anyone?
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7th August 2008, 11:39 AM
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If you use headphones are the sounds ok ??
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7th August 2008, 11:57 AM
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Are the drivers from the manufacturer or from Windows Update? Sometimes WU drivers are useless ones that MS have cooked up.
Do you want the , in the title changed to a . by the way?
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7th August 2008, 11:59 AM
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Two good ideas in one hit - I will try them both when I have finished this machine build I am doing and let you know.....
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7th August 2008, 12:38 PM
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Codecs? 
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7th August 2008, 12:42 PM
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I downloaded the Codecs fixer that Howard suggested but no good. The thing has also started to refuse to play all downloaded sound files.
I don't think it is hardware as this is a dual boot system (XP and Vista) and it works with the Vista boot just fine. Looking at the drivers I think it has ***** MS drivers so will download the latest set for the motherboard and try that.
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7th August 2008, 06:15 PM
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In that case, try a Windows XP repair mate. It has to be some kind of corruption.
If a repair doesn`t work, then maybe a check for malware should be run.
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7th August 2008, 06:45 PM
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IMO a repair install of XP is overkill and totally unnescessary for this issue.
Albert, have you used the roll back drivers feature for your sound card in device manger yet? if not try it. If that doesnt resolve the issue simply reinstall the sound card/device and its original drivers
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7th August 2008, 08:38 PM
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As far as I`m aware, Albert has already reinstalled the sound drivers etc and the situation has gotten progressively worse.
Since he has no such problems with the Vista installation, it seems reasonable to conclude, this may be OS related.
It makes perfect sense to try a Windows repair as this would rule out OS corruption.
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8th August 2008, 12:40 AM
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As Howard knows from exchanges on another site (cos I could not get onto this one for most of the evening) I have since fixed this by finding a newer set of drivers and installing them.
I didn't have to repair windows as that was going to be a last resort for the morning.
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