Friar

ISSUE NOW SORTED (I've nailed Sister Rebbeca and don't give a damn about the sound for now) 1. Uninstalled sound drivers 2. re-installed sound drivers 3. re-booted 4. got bluse screen of death - driver install overrun-could cause security risk 5. re-boot to safe mode. 6. uninstall drivers 7. re-boot 8. re-install drivers 9. un tick "digital device" in sound properties 10. dvd, cd, windows "bings" and "bongs", streamed video from net, game sound (speakers), game sound (headphones) now all working. Normal Service Has Been Resumed. yipee! Case Closed (lets hope........)

Ok, so round 2 of a problem which i can see building to the complexity of Jabo's frame rate issues.... 1. Feedback now seems to have gone. 2. Game sound Ok. 3. Microphone works and records (although as an asside i found that if you have more than 2gb of memory windows sound recorder will record but when it comes to saving, says "not enough memory". This is a known bug!) 4. Streamed video from a cinema web site worked the first time after booting up, the second time I tried to watch a trailer, I get the crackle and pulsing back. 5. There is little or no sound from VLC media player when trying to watch a DVD. Pule and crackle still evident. 6. Windows "bings", "bongs" and "chimes" are also fine. This crackle sound problem was evident before I changed the cd-rom for a dvd drive. Something must have gone wrong with my system previously. Virus and spyware checks upto date. Any "sound" experts wanna have a go a cracking this one? I am offering the services of Sister Rebbeca from the Priory for the person that nails it! Cheers Friar

Ok, thanks Roger, That seems to have sorted it, however, after testing a dvd and playing 2 tracks of a cd, then re-starting the cd, i now have the crackle and pulse back...grrrrr.....got to go out shortly so will try otherthings later. thanks for help anyway, as allways, its very welcome, Cheers Friar

Having now seemingly sorted the crackle and pulse on the video sound (by re-installing the Audigy2 software) I now have another problem. I can not turn the volume up to any decent partner annoying level before I get a sound not dissimilar to a finger being pushed around the top of a crystal wine glass (go on, you have all done it to impress the kids!). Not good on the ears. I have not moved speakers from previous positions. Any suggestions as to where to look? Cheers Friar

no, clock settings are fine. so i guess not. its all sorted now so guess thread closed.......for now!

OK, d/l it. it is giving me a problem on sound. i have mentioned it before and managed to get rid of it, but cant remember how ! i am getting a crackle, pulsating noice. on the dxdiag test for sound it is fine up to step 20 mono 8 bit 22khz, then it starts music in dxdiag is fine, windows sounds are fine. ts was fine during a quick test. i have had the same problem when i tried to look at a movie trailer from the vue cinema web site using windows media player so it is not unique to vcl yours baffled friar

would that then replace windows media player (which I forgot to state I am trying to use)

yep, but dont worry, got it sorted. found some info on the net. unplugged it, went to the c:/windows/temp/saitek folder ran setup.exe asked me to plug device in completed setup profile now works

So Guru's tell me this cos I'm dazed and confused.... In replaceing my cd-ro for a dvd drive (see other thread) I had to get the machine up on the bench (well dinning room table). I powered down, removed the power cable and pressed the power button to discharge any remaining juice, then removed all usb's and netowrk cables. So the machine is now dead. I work on it and every thing is fine. I replace the drive, plug back in all the cables and switch it back on.....now why the feck does the machine think the x52 is a new device, and as a result wont load the profiles? any offers ? Cheers Friar

Well the drive went in easily enough. It seems to be working ok as i can browse content. I tried to play a dvd but got the error message that i need a compatable dvd decoder. do i have to purchase it or is there another option?

Talking of classics and DT, did I ever tell everyone about the time when I pulled off this wondershot on DT...Well it went something like this.......I was in a 190 and I saw this plane try to duck down and go under my nose. ...........you remember it?

Very funny JP, not like you at all..........

Hi guys, My present rig only has a CD-Rom drive. I have just purchased a DVD/CD writer to replace it. Are there any pitfulls to look out for? I was expecting it to come with some driver software, but all that was delivered was the actual drive. Any advice before I start? Cheers Friar

There was talk of going to see the Shuttleworth Collection on Sunday. Browsing their site I notice that the house and grounds will be hosting the Bedfordshire County Show on the Sunday and Monday. Me thinks that the roads and site could get REAL busy.

hey pook, thats great are you free for ts now?

Hi, I need someone in the us to make a toll free call for me to a company. I purchased some certification software and can not get the licence to install correctly. I have sent an email but have not got any response. I really could do with getting it installed today. I will provide all the information and as i say it is to a 1-800 number. the company is in "CA" (is that california?) Any takers? Cheers Friar

Found this over at "Skies of fire" and thought that i would post a link http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zsIz2bIBLwM

dont know if it was pc world. i think its job done, i can get the data now, they have a new hard drive. so they have learned a lesson that they should have asked me first! thanks for all you help as allways

also, bit of a long shot but any idea of what may have caused the drive to screw up like that? could it have been the update patially installed, although I was told that when shutting down the machine they were given the option to install and shut down or just shutdown, they just shutdown.

Excellent, thanks guys. The only thing i had to do to enable this was to turn off "simple file sharing" to get the security options for her pc. I love you guys.........

Salute M8 and hope you had a good one.

Hi help also please with this one; Using Firefox 3.0.5, when I click on a mailto link from a website I get outlook express launching even though in tools/options/applications I have set outlook as the default mail client. I have also checked Outlook Express and it is set NOT to be the default client. Outlook launches but then Outlook Express launches as well and wants to send the mail, but I have not got it configured so of course it wont work. Any pointers please. Cheers Friar

Hi guys, I wonder if someone could give me any advice on the folowing problem; I have been asked by a friend to try and recover data from a replaced hard drive. The drive was replaced before I got to see it because it was un accessable. Appently it became unaccessable after a windows update which was not installed, the machine was just switched off. The next time they switched the pc on it would not boot up. The machine was given to another party who has replaced the hard drive. I now have the drive. Using a USB 2.0 to IDE and SATA cable I have been able to acces the drive from my machine. Initially I was not able to read any information on the drive. I just received an error message (which I can now not remember what it said doh!) After doing some reasearch on the net I performed a "chkdsk /r" During the chkdsk there were numerous messages. Some related to orphaned files others related to indexs being re-calculated. I now have access to all the folders except the "My documents". When I try it says Access Denined". I have tried various security / permission settings but to no avail. I have tried taking it back to the original machine and using the cables plugged into that machine but got the same issue. The new hard drive does not have the same user names. The third party just generated a generic username. IS there anything else I could try? Cheers Friar

actually, i thought the first thing he said was "You had better stand back, I am not sure how big this thing gets!"

very clever and funny....good find