Sound Issues

BarnabasBoehler · 05-17-2008, 01:54 PM

Sound has Issues
Hello everyone!

Okay here are some quick system specs.

AMD Athlon 3200+. Asus motherboard. WinXP Pro Sp2 (recently upgraded to Sp3)

Sound driver appears to be mainly SoundMax

So, about a week ago, I noticed my sound stopped working on Youtube. After a little testing, I noticed it doesn't seem to work on other sites that utilize Adobe Flash player for sound. For the most part, it does seem to work on some Quicktime and Windows Media player sites. However, even when the sound works, the voices seem to waver and are usually muffled and garbled at certain points Sometimes the sound cuts out completely.

Here's the Kicker though. If I find a site that actually plays sound, the sound will also work on Youtube or wherever. It's very muffled and faint, but it works nonetheless. If I stop or pause the sound that's working...then Youtube becomes silent as well. This also happens when I get a "ding" from an instant message. For about 1/2 a second I'll hear sound (exactly as the beep or Ding from my Instant messenger happens).

here are some other strange occurences

--Sound works fine on Games.
---I've had some troubles with Quicktime 7 pro. First it would crash and shut down when I went to export settings. I fixed that now, but I still have 1 file that I transfered from another computer and it has no sound or video. Another you can see the video but hear no sound (even though sound and video are present in both cases)
--Music and SFX seem to play cleanly...but voices never sound quite right.
--Windows sounds and alerts usually work fine, but sometimes they seem cut short.

Here is what I've done to attempt to fix it.

Checked the volume in my Master Volume and any other Volume control that I'm aware of.
Uninstalled the USB Audio Device,
unintalled and reinstalled Adobe Flashplayer

P.s. I just removed the High Definition USB Audio Device and I can't figure out how to get it back, so now I have no sound at all.

Houndog777 · 05-31-2008, 05:05 AM

Hi,
Try installing these Audio Codecs from Microsoft....
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...ecs/audio.aspx

05-17-2008, 01:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
BarnabasBoehler Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 18 OS: Win XP	Sound Issues Sound has Issues Hello everyone! Okay here are some quick system specs. AMD Athlon 3200+. Asus motherboard. WinXP Pro Sp2 (recently upgraded to Sp3) Sound driver appears to be mainly SoundMax So, about a week ago, I noticed my sound stopped working on Youtube. After a little testing, I noticed it doesn't seem to work on other sites that utilize Adobe Flash player for sound. For the most part, it does seem to work on some Quicktime and Windows Media player sites. However, even when the sound works, the voices seem to waver and are usually muffled and garbled at certain points Sometimes the sound cuts out completely. Here's the Kicker though. If I find a site that actually plays sound, the sound will also work on Youtube or wherever. It's very muffled and faint, but it works nonetheless. If I stop or pause the sound that's working...then Youtube becomes silent as well. This also happens when I get a "ding" from an instant message. For about 1/2 a second I'll hear sound (exactly as the beep or Ding from my Instant messenger happens). here are some other strange occurences --Sound works fine on Games. ---I've had some troubles with Quicktime 7 pro. First it would crash and shut down when I went to export settings. I fixed that now, but I still have 1 file that I transfered from another computer and it has no sound or video. Another you can see the video but hear no sound (even though sound and video are present in both cases) --Music and SFX seem to play cleanly...but voices never sound quite right. --Windows sounds and alerts usually work fine, but sometimes they seem cut short. Here is what I've done to attempt to fix it. Checked the volume in my Master Volume and any other Volume control that I'm aware of. Uninstalled the USB Audio Device, unintalled and reinstalled Adobe Flashplayer P.s. I just removed the High Definition USB Audio Device and I can't figure out how to get it back, so now I have no sound at all.

05-31-2008, 05:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
Houndog777 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Scotland, UK Posts: 2,683 OS: XPpro sp3 My System	Re: Sound Issues Hi, Try installing these Audio Codecs from Microsoft.... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...ecs/audio.aspx