PC Speaker not working

[yleclerc]

Can anyone help? My PC Speaker does not work in Windows 98 SE. I have a Logitech MouseMan Wheel mouse and a SB Awe64. By luck, I had to remove my mouse driver and reboot. The PC speaker worked again, but the 4th mouse boutton did not. I reinstalled the mouse driver, and the PC speaker does not work again. What gives???

[mechlayn]

have you tried udating both your sound card drivers and your mouse software?....goto www.soundblaster.com for the sound card and www.logitech.com for your mouse. Also certain logitech mice have had issues in the past conflicting with some sound cards. Check with logitech on that one.

[yleclerc]

I have updated both my mouse drivers and my sound card drivers. However, I did not post a problem with my sound card, but I can not use my PC's internal system speaker. You should know the one I am talking about. The speaker which comes with each PC and is directly connected to the motherboard and is not even mono.

[Charlie Davis]

Iam unable to get any sound out of my sound card. My installed sound card is a Crystal WDM Audio Codec and it has a yellow exclamation mark next to it underystem properties listing. I have contacted mfg. Gateway and they say I will have to reformat hard-drive as something is corrupting my system. On previous occasions they have told me to reformat hard drive and it did not solve anything. It seems a usual response when they cannot find the problem! I deleted driver and went to mfg. web-site and downloaded new driver and no changes. I also tried using restoration CD to reinstall new driver and that changes nothing. Any suggestions besides reformating hard drive? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Charlie

[Phil_H]

You should start a new topic rather joining in someone elses problem.If you have got new drivers for your soundcard go to windows inf folder remove any inf file that is the same name as your soundcard then restart the pc in safemode remove all duplicates of hardware components check all devices remove the soundcard every bit of it if you find a duplicate remove both "i've seen pcs with six floppy drives installed" and when win restarts only one will be detected and installed if the soundcard asks for new drivers go to the new drivers you must unzip beforehand if req
Good luck
Phil

[Mike Lundell]

another idea is that you i/o address or dma channel is in use by another componant inside... check the resource tab on the card your having trouble with (in device manager) by default windows will set them up automatically, in hopes that everything will find it's own irq's, dma's, and i/o addresses... but that doesn't always work... the more you have on your board the less resources your going to have to work with. you should be able to change it on your own. uncheck use automatic settings then change things the way you need it so that you don't have the error no more... This is really complicated and doesn't always work the way you want... you might want to write down all the numbers for all your cards, before you go in and mess with things. Then if you screw up real bad you can change things back.

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