Quickie, XP volume control (found the culprit)

[Submit]

I posted this in Operating Systems but it didn't get a lot of attention. I still can't find a solution. Anyway, here is the problem, maybe someone knows the fix.

This is my issue; the volume icon in the system tray makes the PC Speaker beep instead of my speakers. To clarify when I click on the volume icon and move the volume slider up or down, instead of my speakers beeping, the PC speaker beeps. I can't find the option to change this anywhere, this is driving me crazy Help...

I uninstalled the creative drivers, and reinstalled....this has to be a windows thing

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Luden]

My only guess is that its a windows sound (control panel > sounds.)

 

[Submit]

I have been through the control panel many times. Doesn't matter what I do...(i.e) uninstall creative drivers, disable sounds, mute PC Speaker...still the same problem. Also when I get new mail, rather then get the ususl WAV file, I get a system beep. Nothing seems to work.

 

[silverpig]

This help?

 

[silverpig]

erm, maybe not.

 

[brxndxn]

it does it on my computer too... if you don't like the pc speaker, you can always unplug it from the motherboard

 

[Submit]

Unfortunately, no. I can't believe I have spent this many hours; on this....this is starting to become funny in a way....

 

[Submit]

brxndxn,

If I unplug it, then I will not be able to hear the volume level adjustments, as well as my new mail notifications....

 

[Yomicron]

when playing sounds normally does the sound come from your regular speakers? does the volume control work, and just the beep comes from the internal speaker? or does all sound come from the internal speaker?

 

[Submit]

when playing sounds normally does the sound come from your regular speakers?

Yes, I can play mp3 and so on, just fine.

does the volume control work, and just the beep comes from the internal speaker? or does all sound come from the internal speaker?

Yes, just the beeps when I adjust the loudness and the New Mail notification come from the internel speaker.

 

[gopunk]

what happens when you open up your case and disable your internal speakers?

 

[Submit]

what happens when you open up your case and disable your internal speakers?

When I adjust the volume loudness I do not get a confirmation beep, and I don't get a New Mail notification (I did try several WAV files in the Sound options)

 

[Luden]

Try changing the windows default beep sound

 

[Submit]

Try changing the windows default beep sound

I did, still the volume loudness slider beeps using the system speaker

 

[gopunk]

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

try row 6, fix the ding wav file.

i found this at:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=2f02d46d0b067086&rnum=5

 

[Submit]

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

I had tried this earlier but no luck.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=2f02d46d0b067086&rnum=5

This article had a link to here and IT WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe what the solution was.....I would have never guessed it.

Thank a lot guys.

 

[Bulk Beef]

I didn't read the article, but I'm guessing you had the sound scheme set to "no sounds". I think the only one you need for your volume control is the default beep.

 

[Submit]

I didn't read the article, but I'm guessing you had the sound scheme set to "no sounds". I think the only one you need for your volume control is the default beep.

No, the sound scheme was set to windows default, I tried switching it several times, but that didn't fix the problem.

My problem didn't exaclty match the problem in the Knowledge base article, but the fix worked for me.

 

[hungrypete]

no, it seems the problem was
"Corel Word Perfect Office may cause this problem when the following value is created at the root of HKEY_CURRENT_USER:

PerfectFit Logical Syntax Characters:REG_SZ:"*<>| "

 

[Submit]

no, it seems the problem was "Corel Word Perfect Office may cause this problem when the following value is created at the root of HKEY_CURRENT_USER:

I don't have any Corel products installed. In fact I havn't installed anything in several days.

The only odd thing I can think of today morning (when the problem occured) is I was surfing the web, and I got a message box from a site, saying "vote for us" or something....I clicked "ok"...I think it made a beep possbily...other then that I didn't do anything our of the ordinary.

 

[Submit]

Found the culprit.

A few days ago, I installed Nero MIX. Yesterday I noticed that it took over all the music file types, so I opened it up and in the prefrences, deselected all the file types. This caused the null value in the registry.