i lost my sound when playing a movie and an error ocurred, please help me

[sal48]

i was playing a divx movie and it stoped, showed a blue screen quickly that said something about dumping memory and then my comoputer restarted. I am kinda new at this, any help will be greatly apreciated, thanks.

[UncasMS]

infos needed:

which divx codec is it? (use gspot)

which codec do you have installed? (if in doubt, install the latest ALPHA of ffdshow)

which player did you use? (zoomplayer will be my suggestion)

[sal48]

no sound boy

I use divx 5.0 and i play the movies with windows media player 9.0....when i say the sound doesn't work i mean it doesn't work for anything including mp3's or IM....nothing

if you have any suggestions or a fix it would be awesome, thanks

[Enchanter]

Have you checked your volume control panel and made sure that none of the Master/Wave sliders are set to zero or mute?

[sal48]

still no sound

yah i checked everything that has to do with sound and it all seems normal, nothing was muted or decreased.

[sal48]

i also just installed the latest version of ffshadow alpha and it still didn't work

[UncasMS]

re-install an mp3 codec

maybe the old one got corrupted

[sal48]

i just tried the mp3 codec, didn't work

[setarip]

Are you able to generate audible sound from ANY type of file that contains audio in ANY format?

[sal48]

no

[setarip]

1) If you have a separate soundcard, check to see if it's properly seated and/or connected

2) Check ALL connections


Is there anything else that's not functioning properly on your PC?


Your soundcard may have died...

[sal48]

i couldn't fiaure it out so i took the hit and did sytem restore. it works now, i think that windows media player is currupted. thanks for the help

[setarip]

"thanks for the help"

My (Our) pleasure ;>}


Glad to hear it wasn't something more serious...