no audio

Real is subtle. It usually starts with XP unless it has been disabled. The program that runs and steals file associations even when the player is not running is "eventsvc" or "evntsvc ". They try to make it look like a Windows service. Any sign of that in Task Manager? Is tkbell.exe a startup in your registry?

 

Real is really disabled and nothing like an eventservice is running.
There is no tkbell in the startup either.
It is getting weirder and weirder.

 

I think I'd go for a repair installation. But there is a problem. You can't really do one from the original CD. At least I wouldn't try it.

If you are up to it, make a slipstreamed XP CD. Then when you reinstall, there won't be the old/new conflicts. Otherwise, you are trying to "downdate" some of the XP files, and then you have to go back and reinstall SP1 again. This process makes me nervous. Better to install SP1 from the start from what is essentially an updated OS, the slipstreamed CD.

 

Do you mean a cd with sp1 integrated. Is that a slipstreamed cd?

 

Yes. Do you have that already? If not, and whether or not it solves your present problem, it will make your life much easier. If you choose to use the System File Checker, you will have a CD to do it from. If you have the original CD and SP1 separate, you can't do one. (SFC doesn't work well, anyway, but the point is the same). If you needed to replace a damaged file right now, how would you do it? If it was part of SP1, you don't now have a backup for it. And only the old files are on the CD, not the new SP1 files. You'd be out of luck.

In addition, you will be able to delete all the backup folders that contain SP1 files or backups from the original XP that you may have kept to uninstall SP1. There will be no further need for them. The slipstreamed CD installs as one, integrated operating system and is no longer XP with SP1 applied. It is XP 2002 SP1.

 

I already made a slipstream CD.
Funny enough is SFC asking for a Windows Professional Setup cd although I absolutely run the home version automatically updated with SP1.

 

HUH OH !!!!

Any possibility of a cross up between versions here.

XP home version.

SP1 added.

SFC calling for the PRO version.

The above do raise questions in my mind.

BillyBob

 

How can there be a mixup if things were done automatically?

And how can it be set straight.?

 

I am only asking because you say you run the Home Version but it is now calling for the Pro version.

You say

Now it is calling for a file ( or files ) from the Pro Version.

There has to be a reason for this.

And finding the reason may just help someone else ( including me ) is the future.

I had something similiar happen when I added the SVC pack to 98 ON LINE. Never again will I update online.

Download and then update.

BillyBob

 

That is what I did: download the SP1 and run it.
Don't forget that the Sp1 is suited for home as well as pro (+ 64Kb).
I am drifting away from my problem: No audio in the built-in WMP9 in my IE6 browser.

 

Don't know what to make of that "Pro" problem.

Are you planning on trying a repair?

 

HHHMMMMM!!!! Are we really drifting away for the problem. ?

Or are we possibly getting closer to the problem ?

Lets look at some things again as have been posted.

Original post related to no audio. Attempts to repair have apparently failed.

I believe I read somewhere that a repair could not be done.

It has been said that XP home was the apparent original install.

SP1 was added. ( may well have not gone in correctly )

Now the system seems to be asking for the XP Pro CD.

I see this a case of VERSIONITUS. Which unless given a shot Antibiotics ( complete rebuild ) may well lead to further illness in the future.

I could be ( and have been ) wrong but, this is my assement of the situation as I see it. With my MAIN question being;

How did XP Pro get into supposedly a XP Home install ?

BillyBob

 

Belive me; it is not supposedly XPhome. It is. Original, not a rip and only updated through the Microsoft site. Just to have it in order to make a slipstream cd I downloaded the SP1 from the Microsoft site. There it is written that this SP1 is also fit to be implemented in XPpro and XP64+. Nowhere on the KnowledgeBase Could I find a related question and/or solution for my new problem. And yes I wanted to try to repair (if needed at all) my XPhome to see wheather or not I am using corrupted files.
I wonder, can I just execute this SP1 over my existing Windows again? I suppose I can.

 

MY knowledge of re-installing, slipstreaming etc XP in Nada, zilch, nothing. MY know how only goes as far as installing once ( wrong at that ) and Format C: to get rid of it. So I alI I can do is ask questions.

OK. XP Home install confirmed as original install..

SP1 skipstreamed into ( with or what ever you call it )

OK now I have a problem.

When the SP1 is sliptreamed into ( with ) the original. Does that require or not require XP to be installed/ reinstalled form the NEW set of files.

Unless I mised it I saw no mention of this being done.

Also when looking for files was the request pointed to the complete set of slipstreamed file. Which are now a combination of the original and the SP1.

Unless XP is A LOT different than 98, it is NOT a good idea to have two sets of Windows setup files on the HD.

Now read carefull as I could be wrong.

You have two sets of Windows setup files on the HD.

You run SFC ( I have my own name for that other than the right one )

It needs ( or WANTS to ) replace a file. It ( or you ) go looking for the file. SFC will grab the first ffile of the proper name that it comes to. Version seems to be no concern.

Now if either it or the user does grab the file of a wrong version OH well. In my case it was A no choice but re-install crash.

Unless I am WAY off base any relaced files MUST come from the latest group of setup files.

These may seem like wild ideas but believe me they apply to 95, 98FE & SE. I won't even discuss ME.

BillyBob

 

I think more help might be avaiable if this were in the XP Forum. As it seems to be pretty much XP related.

BB

 

Dear Billyboy,
I appreciate your efforts but sofar you only raise questions and are therefore a bit confusing. I am trying to solve a problem here.
I suggest that from now on (if applicable) we stick to that.
Thanks anyway.

 

Well Excuse me for even trying.

7 Days and three pages and no solution.

I myself would certainly be WIDE OPEN to ANY and all questions and or suggestions.

I guess my experience with SFC and S.C.R.E.W.E.D. up installs don't count.

Good luck.

BillyBob

 

You typically overreact and are unnessecary sensitive.