In Control Panel / Sounds select no sound scheme. Reboot and close any programs that start automatically. See if you can then play a WAV file. See if you can play a MIDI file.

Jon Greene wrote:

Hi all,

I have a computer in which the motherboard died, so I attached the drives to
a newer motherboard (an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard). The hard drive has
Windows ME installed so I booted into safe mode and removed all of the
devices under the device manager and then rebooted normally. After letting
it find devices and rebooting a few times and then removing duplicate
devices and rebooting a couple more times, I ended up with 2 things not
working.

One of the devices not working correctly is "Motherboard Extension for PNP
BIOS" (or something like that), it has an exclamation mark next to it. Not
sure if this is actually causing a problem with other things or not.

The other device is the sound. The motherboard has built in Yamaha sound
for which ME found drivers and says it is installed with no conflicts but
when I try and test the sound (by playing a .wav file) it says that "Windows
cannot play the sound - your soundcard may already be in use".
I have run into this before with the built in sound and solved the problem
by installing a seperate sound card. I tried installing 3 other sound cards
in this computer and had the same results as the built in: "your sound card
may already be in use". The sound cards were all Creative Sound Blaster
cards but different models. Every time, the driver is loaded and it looks
like it should work, but I get nothing from it.

I am at my wits end and cannot think of anything else to try. If anyone can
help, I would apreciate it greatly.

TIA,
Jon

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.