First off, my apologies. This is going to be a pretty long post. Having only the vaguest of theories on the cause, I'm giving pretty much all the data I have.
Just last week, I replaced my old eopx mobo and AMD K6-2 for a new ASUS A7V133 and a 900 mHz AMD Duron. I also upgraded the RAM to 512 MB. Aside from that,t he hardware is all stuff that was fully functional in my old box: Diamond Viper V550 video card, AOpen AON-315 NIC, Diamond MX300 Sound card, and old 10 gig HD and 36X CD-ROM on the primary IDE controller, and a 20 gig Seagate on the Ultra ATA controller. The system is running Win98.
In order to free up a few resources and resolve some conflicts, I disabled the COM2 port and set the IDE controller to use the primary IDE channel only. (Before I did that last change, it wouldn't see the CD-ROM - which is the primary slave - in windows)
That, however, isn't the problem. The problem is thus: no sound. Windows says its all working properly, I have the most recent driver for the card, but no sound. /Except/... when the movie on this site is playing: http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/base.swf
Seriously. When the movie was playing, I got sound on my other apps. When the movie ended, no sound for me. Just tested, though, and now I don't get any sound when the movie is playing. Guess that's a fluke.
Anyway. I'm not getting any error that the sound hardware isn't available, and I've checked the connections with the speakers. Anyone have any idea what the problem might be?
Just last week, I replaced my old eopx mobo and AMD K6-2 for a new ASUS A7V133 and a 900 mHz AMD Duron. I also upgraded the RAM to 512 MB. Aside from that,t he hardware is all stuff that was fully functional in my old box: Diamond Viper V550 video card, AOpen AON-315 NIC, Diamond MX300 Sound card, and old 10 gig HD and 36X CD-ROM on the primary IDE controller, and a 20 gig Seagate on the Ultra ATA controller. The system is running Win98.
In order to free up a few resources and resolve some conflicts, I disabled the COM2 port and set the IDE controller to use the primary IDE channel only. (Before I did that last change, it wouldn't see the CD-ROM - which is the primary slave - in windows)
That, however, isn't the problem. The problem is thus: no sound. Windows says its all working properly, I have the most recent driver for the card, but no sound. /Except/... when the movie on this site is playing: http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/base.swf
Seriously. When the movie was playing, I got sound on my other apps. When the movie ended, no sound for me. Just tested, though, and now I don't get any sound when the movie is playing. Guess that's a fluke.
Anyway. I'm not getting any error that the sound hardware isn't available, and I've checked the connections with the speakers. Anyone have any idea what the problem might be?