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Right, I now have Win98SE and its great, but, I use my pc for music quite a lot and thus, MP3's so I dowloaded a few favs and to my horror they played back like.. sorta echoey and it sounded computerish. It was pants, so I downloaded QuickTime, Winamp, Sonique, Media Player, etc and it sounded the same.
Ok, I tried a cd, and it worked great. So its not my sound card (Phew) it worked fine before, so im guessing that im missing some important drivers or something Codec or something.
So, could someone give me a bit of help, and help a great friend fix his computer :o) Pleeese :o)
GasMask
Pleease!
Ok, I tried a cd, and it worked great. So its not my sound card (Phew) it worked fine before, so im guessing that im missing some important drivers or something Codec or something.
So, could someone give me a bit of help, and help a great friend fix his computer :o) Pleeese :o)
GasMask
Pleease!
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Do Windows sounds play back ok?
Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Sounds and play back some form in there. If they sound fine, then the drivers you have installed are fine.
That means it's either the program you're using to play the MP3's (which is unlikely seeing as you've tried lots of them) or the actual MP3's are corrupt - doubtful as you've played them before.
If the Windows sounds are crap, like the MP3's, then you have a driver and/or Windows problem.
Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Sounds and play back some form in there. If they sound fine, then the drivers you have installed are fine.
That means it's either the program you're using to play the MP3's (which is unlikely seeing as you've tried lots of them) or the actual MP3's are corrupt - doubtful as you've played them before.
If the Windows sounds are crap, like the MP3's, then you have a driver and/or Windows problem.
Yea, I thought that, but I closed everything except vital programs and it didn't work.
Well, have you got any additional software running that you didn't have before? Like antivirus stuff constantly running in the background, or anything like that at all?
Yea I had Win98 before..
Your CPU isn't fast enough.
You said you now had Win 98, did you have Win 95 before? If so, your CPU is too slow as Win 98 needs a faster system than Win 95.
If you had Win 98 before, and the sound was fine, then I don't know what it is.
But it sounds like your system is just too slow to run Win 98 and play MP3's at the same time.
You said you now had Win 98, did you have Win 95 before? If so, your CPU is too slow as Win 98 needs a faster system than Win 95.
If you had Win 98 before, and the sound was fine, then I don't know what it is.
But it sounds like your system is just too slow to run Win 98 and play MP3's at the same time.
Sound still isn't sorted, Im trying to get some kind of new drivers, but its no help. Is there a like universal driver?
225 Mhz Cyrix CPU
64Megs Ram
2 Gig HDD
Onboard sound card
16Meg PCI Graphics card
Umm, yeah, thats it. But it worked fine before on those specs..
64Megs Ram
2 Gig HDD
Onboard sound card
16Meg PCI Graphics card
Umm, yeah, thats it. But it worked fine before on those specs..
What spec PC have you got?
Right now. I think its something to do with codec, so I had a look and I saw Radion Codec something or other, I downloaded it, and installed, and its no different, so whats going on?
Heh, I have every player under the sun :o)
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