RE-booting

For the past six months whenever I reboot my computer I lose all sound.Everything else works fine.In order to refresh windows by re-booting I must use the start button and turn off my computer,then turn it back on.When I do this the sound returns.I cannot reboot any other way and keep the sound on my computer.Help????

My computer is 4 yrs old[1999] it's a compaq.380mhzm,4.0 gbhd with 128mb ram.Windows 98.

 

When you say you're "losing sound" does that mean that the speaker icon in systray disappears? Is the soundcard listed in device manager when this happens? This happenned to me for a while until eventually rebooting didn't help. The problem for me was an easy fix-
I ended up having to move the soundcard to a different pci slot and let windows redetect it again when I rebooted. I've never had a problem since and that was over a year ago.
What soundcard do you have?
Post back and let us know.

 

I had a similar problem on an AMD K6-2 400Mhz system with a Soundblaster 16PCI soundcard running Win98SE. Playing Mahjong or solitare (most any game) the sound would just quit a reboot and the sound would come back (sometimes took shutting down completely then restarting), it only did this in games and system sounds not playing CD's or Mp3's.

Solution:
I took the SB 16 PCI soundcard out (thinking it was slowly dying) and put in a SoundBlaster 16 ISA card installed the drivers and it's been working ever since. No the PCI card that I thought was dying is alive and well in an AMD XP 1800 box and haven't had the first bit of trouble out of it.

My Theory:
I had a USR PCI Winmodem, A Trident 1Mb PCI video card, a 2 port USB adaptor PCI card with a USB Nic attached to it, & the Soundblaster 16 PCI card, all devices seemed to work properly with no conflicts or splats in the device manager. I feel that the somehow the PCI bus would get overloaded and the least needed device would get turned off. Regardless of the true cause of the problem it got solved by switching from a PCI to an ISA soundcard.

Just thought I would share my story with you
Bubba169

 

That my Friend, goes way beyond theory. It is a soild fact of computing.

I had a USR PCI Winmodem

Most likely that problem causing culprit.

I did the reverse. I put in an ISA Modem and fixed the same problem.

Any and all problems of the type that I have had have been caused by adding a PCI Modem.

This is one of several resaons that I used ( for years ) and highly recommed an External Modem. You can add all the cards you wish and USUALLY no problems.

BillyBob

 

I gave $15.00 (US) for this system (desktop, mouse, keyboard, monitor, Win95b) originally was a pent. 166 (upgraded to K6-2 400Mhz by Evergreen Technology), 16Mb of ram upgraded to 64Mb from the old parts box, 500Mb hard drive upgraded to 3.2 Gig from the same box of parts I bought the modem & soundcard, etc.. So I didn't have a whole lot of money in the system, but it has been worth every penny and then some.

As for the external modem I agree and hope to buy an external 56k in the near future (if the budget will allow) for my Linux PC so I can get it online, I want to keep my Linux box a seperate stand alone system for now cause I'm always messing it up.


We seem to be getting off track a little. Syzito have you tried changing the PCI slot? As jazcan suggested

Bubba169