every time i try to play music it always tells me Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly. can anyone help me get my sound back pleassssss.
I had that problem! i needed reinstall my driver (realtek sound manager) this was in my start up pack that came with the pc but I htink if you look on the microsoft site u should be able to find a driver for it hopefully???
When u go to device manager. c if u got the sound driver installed and then c if its installed properly by checkin the properties. and then click refresh. c if that helps
Okay after long hours of trial and error and of course googling I figured out an indefinite solution. Meaning It might work with your pc or might not...my guess is it will. If you are getting this message with windows media player and/or most of your media players it is because your new sound card does not support hardware buffering. You need to change it to software buffering. You do this by making sure THERE IS NO RED X's OR EXCLAMATIONS in your device manager (right click my computer, select properties and select the device manager tab at the top). Next if there are no x's or !'s Make sure your OLD sound card is uninstalled or if it's an onboard sound card disable it from device manager in win98 (right click my computer, select properties and select the device manager tab at the top, goto sound, video and controllers and expand it by clicking the + sign) select your old sound card and right click it then choose properties...you can disable it by checking the disable hardware box in that window. Also make sure your sound card is selected as your default playback device. When you have checked all the above so far your ready for the last step which is YOUR ANSWER...1. Goto WINDOWS START MENU AT BOTTOM LEFT CORNER OF YOUR TASKMANAGER. 2.Choose Run 3. Type Dxdiag.exe in the run command box 4. After Dxdiag has finished checking authentication and signatures SELECT THE SOUND TAB. 5. SLIDE THE HARDWARE SOUND ACCELERATION BAR =====>THE WHOLE WAY<===== to 0 or NONE. It WILL work now!!! The reason for this is cheaper sound cards do not support hardware buffering such as the ones which come with pc's or more expensive high end sound cards. The cheaper one's only support software buffering. I'd like to know if this worked for you!! I only registered here to post THIS answer since I found almost nothing in google to help...ALMOST nothing, I had to piece the rest together myself and figured I would share it to avoid other people getting a headache over it as I did. Hope it Helps!
