"Steve Lundy" wrote:

> Has anyone else ran into this:  You're playing a video with sound that is on
> your desktop, everything is fine, then when you go to play another your audio
> for the next video won't play.  So you go back to the previous video that
> worked, and that doesn't have sound either.  So you check your system for
> other sounds, and nothing works, until you reboot.  it's like something just
> stops the audio on the system. 
>
> I've updated the audio drivers (SoundMAX), and WMP (from v7 to v9), and
> Quicktime (from v6.5.2 to v7.0) as this was what the user was using to view
> the vids so perhaps that might take care of it, I just wanted to know if
> anyone has ran into this, with w2k or xp.  I had this happen on another
> machine once but never found out what it would've taken to fix it as the user
> just got rid of the laptop.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

"Adriana Viola" wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I have the same problem in a notebook that I have, and even reinstalling the
> operating system again (in a different hard disk) the problem is still
> persisting. All the drivers are updated (card and operating system).
>
> Until now I'm using it in this way. I reached the follwing conclusions:
> - bug unknown(audio card), or,
> - hardware issue (audio chip faulty for example).
>
> Try to use the same audio card in another computer to check if the problem
> is with it. I cannot test it, because it is integrated. I hope that you will
> be able to do this test.
>
> Otherwise, install a new audio card on the same computer. It is not so
> expensive and I think that it will not give you so big headache...
>
> Regards,
>
> Adriana
>
>
> "Steve Lundy" wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else ran into this:  You're playing a video with sound that is on
> > your desktop, everything is fine, then when you go to play another your audio
> > for the next video won't play.  So you go back to the previous video that
> > worked, and that doesn't have sound either.  So you check your system for
> > other sounds, and nothing works, until you reboot.  it's like something just
> > stops the audio on the system. 
> >
> > I've updated the audio drivers (SoundMAX), and WMP (from v7 to v9), and
> > Quicktime (from v6.5.2 to v7.0) as this was what the user was using to view
> > the vids so perhaps that might take care of it, I just wanted to know if
> > anyone has ran into this, with w2k or xp.  I had this happen on another
> > machine once but never found out what it would've taken to fix it as the user
> > just got rid of the laptop.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve