Name: Anonymous 2005-08-19 2:00
Here's a problem that's been bugging me for the past day or so. Hope that someone can help me :S
I recently pulled out a 7-year old system from my closet. It was placed in there to make room for other stuff, since I was moving things around in my house (well, that and the monitor finally went bye-bye). I used it for browsing the internet and music. It's got Windows XP w/SP2, and runs reasonably well with all visual effects turnded down, considering its specs. I got an old monitor from my friend and hooked it up again this morning, and it booted fine, no changes to it except two.
The volume control is possessed.
Whenever I click on the speaker icon on the taskbar and try to raise the volume, the slider automatically starts sliding back down, until it reaches just above the very bottom level. In the Advanced volume controls, all the other volume controls are unaffected except the master Volume control on the far left. In Control Panel, I tried to change the volume controls there too, but when I try to adjust Speaker Volume, it hangs. I checked Device Manager and my sound adapters are fine, but guess what? My floppy disk controllers won't work. No 1.44" drive (which is ok with me, I don't use floppies, but I just listed it in case it would help), and some other random stuff were disabled (COM1 and LPT1 ports, to be precise).
Now I'm not sure if anyone can help me, but please, let there be some blessed soul who has an inkling of an idea what is possessing my Volume slide. :(
I recently pulled out a 7-year old system from my closet. It was placed in there to make room for other stuff, since I was moving things around in my house (well, that and the monitor finally went bye-bye). I used it for browsing the internet and music. It's got Windows XP w/SP2, and runs reasonably well with all visual effects turnded down, considering its specs. I got an old monitor from my friend and hooked it up again this morning, and it booted fine, no changes to it except two.
The volume control is possessed.
Whenever I click on the speaker icon on the taskbar and try to raise the volume, the slider automatically starts sliding back down, until it reaches just above the very bottom level. In the Advanced volume controls, all the other volume controls are unaffected except the master Volume control on the far left. In Control Panel, I tried to change the volume controls there too, but when I try to adjust Speaker Volume, it hangs. I checked Device Manager and my sound adapters are fine, but guess what? My floppy disk controllers won't work. No 1.44" drive (which is ok with me, I don't use floppies, but I just listed it in case it would help), and some other random stuff were disabled (COM1 and LPT1 ports, to be precise).
Now I'm not sure if anyone can help me, but please, let there be some blessed soul who has an inkling of an idea what is possessing my Volume slide. :(