MSN Messenger 6 and XP - no audio

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John Doehead

Good day.

I have read through the posts regarding the above but have yet to find a
concrete/definite answer for this problem.

I have an XP machine connected directly to my ADSL modem using Norton
Personal Firewall. I have disabled the firewall, rebooted and ensure it
restarted with the firewall disabled.

When I attempt to talk to someone, I can chat, but I can never connect for a
voice conversation. I use MSN Messenger 6 on my other Win2K box without a
problem, leading me to believe it is XP related.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
John.
 
I believe it has to do something with SP1 for WinXP
When I use Windows Messenger 4.7 and my chat partner uses MSN Messenger 6.0
it works fine.
But when I also use MSN Mess 6.0 it won't work.
The only difference is I have SP1 and they have Win XP without it.
I thought with MSN 6.1 the problem is solved, no way :-(
Well its still a beta (see mess.be)
Greetings,
Richard
 
Audio seems to be broken for alot of people using winxp & msn messenger 6.

this is what i do now for a workaround. contact yuour party using msn
messenger or whaterver else messenging program. have your ip address ready
and also your other party's ip address. if you don't know go to this web
page and it will tell you http://www.whatismyip.com/

"To open NetMeeting from XP just click start/run type "conf" (without ") and
press OK. or look here "C:\Program Files\Netmeeting\conf.exe" = make sure to
run the audio & video setup's to set things correctly b4 you connect for the
1st time.

To call your friend you need his IP. To find it he must open NetMeeting
click help/about, the last line in the dialog box that opens is his IP. If
it is a fixed one it is always the same one otherwise it changes each time
he connects to the internet.
Write this IP to the first line in NetMeeting (under the menu) and press the
phone button.
I think he has to have NetMeeting open to get a message that you are calling
him.
Good luck."

"C:\Program Files\Netmeeting\conf.exe"
 
Some people seem to be having good luck with uninstalling then
reinstalling their sound cards. I would be interested to know if there
was a certain brand of sound card having this problem.
 
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