C-Media Sound Problem

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Chris

Hoping someone here can help me...
I've been beating my head against a wall for months
trying to figure this out.

I have an Athlon XP 2000+ on an ASUS A7S333 MB. The
problem is the C-Media CMI8738 sound chip, using XP Pro.
I have no sound. No windows event sounds, no nothing. I
can see them playing. It USED to work for about a month,
then one day it stopped. Then I got it to play MP3's ok
after much messing around. I don't get any IM sounds
either (like from Yahoo messenger or AIM). Now I can't
get anything. I installed the newest driver many MANY
times, and it never worked. ANY ideas? I know this is a
common problem, but I have never found a real answer to
it.

Thanks!
 
Hello

Well 1 option is to disable the onboard soundcard
install a scard and go from their, I know does not make
sense todo that but, maybe your onboard souncard
could be faulty

Alvin
 
If you could play MP3s but not .wav files it sounds like
you have one or more codecs missing/damaged?
Perhaps if you try and open a .wav in Windows Media
Player, it might attempt to download the codec from MS. A
Windows repair install might be something else to consider.
 
myth-unit said:
If you could play MP3s but not .wav files it sounds like
you have one or more codecs missing/damaged?
Perhaps if you try and open a .wav in Windows Media
Player, it might attempt to download the codec from MS. A
Windows repair install might be something else to consider.
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I doubt it's a codec problem. He mentioned that he wasn't able to hear
windows event sounds, which are all .wav files.

I have a similar problem. The motherboard is able to send sound out,
as the beeps that happen when I do bios changes come through the
speakers fine.

I've deleted and reinstalled drivers, changed cards around, changed
speaker configuration, everything I can think of.

Someone out there must have figured this out! Has ASUS said anything?
 
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