No sounds at all

I just replaced my bad Maxtor Drive with a new one they sent me. I reinstalled everythig (all day) and now I don't have any sound in Windows 98 FE.
No speaker icon on the bottom. I went to add/remove programs and loaded sounds again, but still nothing. What's going on? How can I fix it?
I want to re-install NASCAR 4 but it won't let me since it detects a problem with sound. It says something else might be useing it. Thank you, chris.

 

This should have been in the Win98 or Hardware forum.

Did you have sounds earlier and lost them, or no sounds since the reinstallation?

Do you know what sound card you have?

 

I'm sory about the wrong place.

I didn't have sound since reinstall. I'm useing a Sound Blaster Live. Also, when I go into "Multimedia," "Audio ", it's all greyed out.

 

You might try this driver:

http://us.creative.com/support/down...ound+Blaster+Live!+5.1&OS=2&OSName=Windows+98

If you have broadband, try the full web package which includes:

Creative Surround Mixer (Windows 95, 98, and Millennium)
Creative AudioHQ (Windows 95, 98, and Millennium)
Creative Installer 1.00.07 (Windows 95, 98, and Millennium)

http://us.creative.com/support/down...ound+Blaster+Live!+5.1&OS=2&OSName=Windows+98

 

I installed it. After I did it twice I have start, creative, when I click on something, it has an illegal operation and doesn't open.
Is there a way to get sound in Windows?

 

Does an Internal Modem exist ?

If so it may well be the quite common problem of an IRQ conflict between the Modem and the Audio card. The Modem may well be using an IRQ that the Audio needs.

I would bet that if the Modem were removed that Sound would work. But then it might be tough to get the modem back to working. Internal Modems can be troublesome.

If this is indeed the case. A more reliable and permanent fix is and External Serial Port Modem.

BillyBob

 

Thanks Bill Bob.
This is interesting. Although I have no Dial up Modem installed, before I did my clean install I took out an old PCI Video Card and installed my other AGP. Wonder if that changed anything? Why would the speaker icon be missing and the audio tab be greyed out? No conflicts in Device Manager.

I could try and switch the cards around and see if that does anything. Just that, wouldn't cause all this other stuff would it?

Right now I have a sound card and a NIC in the PCI Slots.

I beleve I have my BIOS set to all slots equle. Does it matter what sots I move them to?

 

Try removing all drivers for the card in Device Manager (right-click My Computer, Properties).

Restart if prompted and then reinstall the driver.

If that doesn't do it, try restarting in Safe Mode and installing the driver from there.

Just out of curiosity, what does the driver look like in Device Manager? What are the properties and is it enabled? What sort of symbol is near it?

 

Have you installed the motherboard/chipset drivers?

 

All these removes, installs, uninstalls, may have left windows confused. Removing all and rebooting, then letting windows redetect and install drivers is sound advice. Just like to add, do this in safemode. Many legacy/ghost or dupes will not be seen in normal mode but will need a safemode check to see and remove them.

Just remember to start from the bottom up and if there is duplicates, remove both/all. Reasons being; windows may redetect and install those you removed and if you left one listed, after redetect, you will have two or more [duplicates] again and will be back where you started.

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As a side note, if you did have chip sound, I assume you took a look in bios to make sure this has been and has retained it's disabled statis.