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Thread ID: 32558 2003-04-22 08:32:00 Partial Sound Problems - Help Please Shortstop (632) Press F1
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137852 2003-04-22 08:32:00 Windows Media Player is my default player, and today when I tried to play audio tracks saved on HDD, or a CD in the player I got the error message "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound card". This not true because other sound is playing normally; I can rip and play Wav sounds in Nero and Wave Editor, and Real Player will play MP3 s etc.(WMP will play videos, but with no sound)

Trying to trouble-shoot this I went into Control Panel. System Properties says device is working normally but Sounds And Multi-Media will not open. Any ideas please? If it's Windows Media Player throwing a hissy fit what can you do since it can't be uninstalled?
Shortstop (632)
137853 2003-04-22 08:57:00 what verson of Windows Media Player do you have??? what OS do you have ??? stu140103 (137)
137854 2003-04-22 09:43:00 OS is ME. Windows Media Player 9 Shortstop (632)
137855 2003-04-24 20:08:00 Perhaps you need to update directx? current version is 9

note that not all hardware is directx compatible and different software may access the system in different ways, some potential differences of which changing directx may or may not fix
Captive (3159)
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