1. The default output of the driver is "mute". Click the small sound icon (small beep) in the lower right corner of the screen, and the volume adjustment slider will appear, with the option of "Mute" below. Click the check box in front and clear the check mark in the box to pronounce normally.
2. The sound card conflicts with other cards. The solution is to adjust the system resources used by PnP cards so that the cards do not interfere with each other. Sometimes, when you open "Device Management", although there is no yellow exclamation mark (conflict sign), the sound card just doesn't sound. In fact, there is a conflict, but the system doesn't check it out.
3. The sound card can't sound after installing Direct X.. It shows that this sound card is not compatible with Direct X, and the driver needs to be updated.
4. One channel is silent. Check whether the audio cable from the sound card to the speaker is broken.
common fault 2: the noise emitted by the sound card is too loud. The common reasons for this fault are:
1. Incorrect card insertion. Because the manufacturing accuracy of the chassis is not high enough and the external baffle of the sound card is poorly manufactured or installed, the sound card cannot be closely combined with the expansion slot of the motherboard, and it can be seen that the "golden finger" on the sound card is misaligned with the expansion slot reed. This phenomenon is common in both ISA card and PCI card. Generally, pliers can be used for correction.
2. The input of the active Speaker is connected to the speaker output of the sound card. For the active speaker, it should be connected to the Line out end of the sound card, and its output signal < P > does not pass through the power amplifier on the sound card, so the noise is much less. Some sound cards have only one output. Whether it is Line out or Speaker depends on the jumper on the card. The default mode of the manufacturer is often Speaker, so unplug the sound card and adjust the jumper.
3. The driver that comes with Windows is not good. When installing the sound card driver, choose the driver provided by the manufacturer instead of
Windows default driver. If you install by adding new hardware, choose Have Disk instead of the list box. If the driver that comes with Windows has been installed, you can select Control Panel → System → Device Management → Sound, Video and Game Controller, click each device, and select Properties → Driver → Change Driver → Install from Disk. At this time, insert the disk or CD attached to the sound card and load the driver provided by the manufacturer.
common fault 3: the sound card can't be "plugged and played"
1. Try to use new drivers or substitutes. I used to have a sound card, but I couldn't install the driver with the original drive disk under Windows 98, so I had to use the Creative SB16 driver instead, and everything was fine. Later, I upgraded to Windows Me, but it didn't work properly. Then I switched to the sound card driver that came with Windows 2 (full version) to work properly.
2. The biggest headache is that when a plug-and-play device is detected in Windows 9X, it is decided to help you install the driver without permission. This driver is not available. In the future, this problem will be repeated every time you delete and reinstall it, and it cannot be solved by adding new hardware. Here, the author reveals a unique trick: enter the Win9xinfother directory, delete all the *. inf files about sound cards, restart them and install them manually. This trick is 1% effective and has saved countless sound cards ... Of course, modifying the registry can also achieve the same goal.
3. The installation of PnP sound card is not supported (also applicable to PnP sound cards that cannot be installed by the above PnP method): Go to Control Panel/Add New Hardware/Next, and be prompted "Do you need Windows to search for new hardware?" , select "No", and then select "Sound, Video and Game Controller" from the list to install with the drive disk or directly select the sound card type.
common fault 4: playing CD silently
1. completely silent. The CD player of Windows 98 plays the CD silently, but the CD player works normally, which means that the audio cable of the CD drive is not connected properly. Just use a 4-core audio cable to connect the analog audio output of the CD-ROM with the CD-In on the sound card. This cable will be attached when purchasing the CD-ROM.
2. There is only one sound channel. The output port of CD-ROM drive generally has two lines of signals, and the middle two lines are ground wires. Because the colors of four audio signal lines are generally different, one-to-one corresponding interfaces can be found from the colors of the lines. If there is only one interface on the sound card or each interface does not match the audio cable, we have to change the wiring sequence of the audio cable, usually only two of them can be interchanged.
common fault 5: sonic boom of PCI sound card
is generally due to the fact that the PCI video card uses Bus Master technology, which magnifies the background
noise when reading and writing the hard disk hanging on the PCI bus and moving the mouse. Solution: Turn off the Bus Master function of PCI graphics card, switch to AGP graphics card, and switch the PCI sound card to the slot.
common fault 6: unable to record normally
first, check whether the microphone is plugged into other jacks by mistake. secondly, double-click the speaker and select "properties → recording" on the menu to see if the settings are correct. Next, adjust "mixer device" and "line input device" in "control panel → multimedia → device" and set them to "use" status. If the option of "Recording" in "Multimedia → Audio" is grayed out, it will be too bad. Of course, there is no room for saving. You can try adding "ISA Plug and Play bus" in "Add New Hardware → System Equipment" and simply install the sound card with the card tool software and restart it.
common fault 7: unable to play Wav music and Midi music
it is rare that Wav music cannot be played, often because there is more than one audio device under Multimedia → Equipment, so just disable one; There are three possibilities for failing to play MIDI files:
1. The early ISA sound card may play MIDI abnormally due to the incompatibility between 16-bit mode and 32-bit mode, which should be solved by installing a software wave table
2. Nowadays, most popular PCI sound cards use wave table synthesis technology. If the MIDI part cannot play, it is probably because you have not loaded an appropriate wave table sound library.
3. the MIDI channel in windows volume control is set to mute mode.
common fault 8: the PCI sound card is not working properly under WIN98
some users report that everything is normal during the installation of the sound card driver, and there is no device conflict, but under WIN98, there is no sound or other fault. This phenomenon usually appears on the PCI sound card. Please check which PCI slot you inserted the PCI sound card into during the installation. Some friends like to plug sound cards into PCI slots far away from AGP slots and close to ISA slots for heat dissipation. This is often the problem, because Windows98 has a Bug: sometimes it can only correctly identify sound cards inserted in PCI-1 and PCI-2 slots. The two PCI cards that are close to AGP on ATX motherboards are PCI-1 and PCI-2 (on some ATX motherboards, on the contrary, PCI-1 is close to ISA), so if you don't install the PCI sound card in the correct slot, problems will arise.