I know I've seen it at least a couple times.
The system will play the first sound fine.
(So if a sound scheme is set up for a windows start sound, it will play that sound or possible a program start sound, if a program starts up in the background or something)
Afterwards no sound plays.
(If all sound schemes are disabled, I can test something like an mp3. Once I stop it, and try to play it again, I get no sound. (Doesn't matter what player although with Windows Media Player, I see the timer progress but produce zero sound. In Winamp, something more interesting happens, the mini visualization stops and freezes and the timer does not progress.)
I see a similar phenomena when testing sounds under the "Sounds" item of the control panel. Again, if it's not the first sound I'm playing since that bootup, no sound will be heard. The play button greys out, and the stop button fills in with black. It stays that way. As if the sound is not released and hasn't been released since the first sound. (In this case, the volume control doesn't have small spectrum bars that are red-yellow-green, but in cases where they are such bars, you would see it start to activate and then freeze)
Now I've noticed I can reset it to the "no sound has been played yet" situation by changing the memory range windows.
In the past, similar problems could sometimes be fixed by changing the irq.
I've moved it to two different irqs in the BIOS. The result is still the same.
The BIOS is the newest version. The soundcard has the newest drivers.
I've tried the newest drivers in it's initial Win98SE configuration as well as clean Win98SE install.
Is the sound card dead or is there still some configuration left I could do?
The system will play the first sound fine.
(So if a sound scheme is set up for a windows start sound, it will play that sound or possible a program start sound, if a program starts up in the background or something)
Afterwards no sound plays.
(If all sound schemes are disabled, I can test something like an mp3. Once I stop it, and try to play it again, I get no sound. (Doesn't matter what player although with Windows Media Player, I see the timer progress but produce zero sound. In Winamp, something more interesting happens, the mini visualization stops and freezes and the timer does not progress.)
I see a similar phenomena when testing sounds under the "Sounds" item of the control panel. Again, if it's not the first sound I'm playing since that bootup, no sound will be heard. The play button greys out, and the stop button fills in with black. It stays that way. As if the sound is not released and hasn't been released since the first sound. (In this case, the volume control doesn't have small spectrum bars that are red-yellow-green, but in cases where they are such bars, you would see it start to activate and then freeze)
Now I've noticed I can reset it to the "no sound has been played yet" situation by changing the memory range windows.
In the past, similar problems could sometimes be fixed by changing the irq.
I've moved it to two different irqs in the BIOS. The result is still the same.
The BIOS is the newest version. The soundcard has the newest drivers.
I've tried the newest drivers in it's initial Win98SE configuration as well as clean Win98SE install.
Is the sound card dead or is there still some configuration left I could do?
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