Name: Anonymous 2006-06-28 15:24
My codecs all decided to randomly die one day, so to fix my problem I uninstalled Winamp, VLC media player, DivX, iTunes and Quicktime. In addition to this, I uninstalled Windows media player which I had not upgraded since I got XP.
I think doing this affected my windows in some way, and I'm not sure what to do now as it's such a strange problem. Basically, any sounds run by windows will not play. Games and Winamp, and video files a l play with perfect sound, but anything else such as firefox or .swf files do not. When I go to the "sounds" menu, all of the slots are filled up with codecs as they should be - My current codec is the AC'97 one which came on my mobo disc. I'm not sure how exactly to uninstall this, so instead of doing so i simply ran the installer - both a downloaded one and the one from my mobo disc, but that has fixed nothing.
The program that appears with my audio driver may be something to do with this.
When it senses what is connected to my speaker-in socket, it says it's a microphone O_O Although the sound test on the actual program itself work, regardless of this.
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/1525/untitled6oy.jpg
^ Screenshot of it.
In case it was the lack of WMP that was hurting my PC, I installed a fresh version, which works although it has not helped my problem other than that.
How can I solve this problem? Thanks ^^
I think doing this affected my windows in some way, and I'm not sure what to do now as it's such a strange problem. Basically, any sounds run by windows will not play. Games and Winamp, and video files a l play with perfect sound, but anything else such as firefox or .swf files do not. When I go to the "sounds" menu, all of the slots are filled up with codecs as they should be - My current codec is the AC'97 one which came on my mobo disc. I'm not sure how exactly to uninstall this, so instead of doing so i simply ran the installer - both a downloaded one and the one from my mobo disc, but that has fixed nothing.
The program that appears with my audio driver may be something to do with this.
When it senses what is connected to my speaker-in socket, it says it's a microphone O_O Although the sound test on the actual program itself work, regardless of this.
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/1525/untitled6oy.jpg
^ Screenshot of it.
In case it was the lack of WMP that was hurting my PC, I installed a fresh version, which works although it has not helped my problem other than that.
How can I solve this problem? Thanks ^^