Installed remote, now sound + internet hosed

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banjomike

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After many months delaying, I finally installed my remote last night. I installed the original drivers, then immeditately installed the 1.2 drivers. At the end of that process it prompted me to reboot, so I did.

It was pretty neat. I stood in the other room and changed the channel. My wife thought the TV program was going crazy. I changed my pointer to the big pointer so I could see it from the couch. I surfed the net for a bit and wished there was a button that would take me back a page. Then I shut it all down and went to bed.

This morning, I wanted to check the weather real quick , so I turned on the computer and noticed that there was no windows startup sound ( I hate that sound anyway ). I turned up the volume on the speakers, nothing. Oh well, time to check the weather. Loaded up internet explorer, nothing. It wouldn't load anything ( I have a cable modem ). I was frustrated, and out of time, but I checked to see if maybe the speaker was unplugged from the sound card. It wasn't but when I unplugged it and plugged it back in there was no pop like there would be if the sound card was active at all. So I checked all of the sindows volume controls, nothing there either. So finally I hit the desk cursed, shut down the pc, and went to work, which is where I am now.

If no better advice comes along today, I'll probably just pray and do a system restore to the last restore point, then just hammer that remote into tiny pieces (assuming the restore helps at all)

Any thoughts?

MsB

ps I can't remember if my setup is in my .sig so...
WinXP pro
Tyan 2460 w/ Athlon 1800s
512Mb
AIW 8500DV
Audigy Platinum
Relatively new cablemodem (linksys) and AT&T service
miscellaneous drives etc.
and one bloody #%&*@! remote wonder.
 
very weird. Now, did you install the remote software 1.1 before 1.2? Or from 1.0 to 1.2? You have to have 1.1 before 1.2t.
Also make sure that you didn't knock anything loose when you pluged in the remote wire.
Have you uninstalled the remote software to see if it fixes the problem?
Let us know what you have tried.
 
Fixed

Fixed

I never installed 1.0. I installed 1.1 then 1.2.

When I got home I used system restore to go back before I installed any of it. BUT horror, still no sound. So I started fiddling and under Play Control, Advanced, there is a check box for '1 digital output only'. I unchecked it. Nothing. I checked it again and almost blew out my speakers. In fact it sounded very much like I had blown them out. It was very disturbing. After some fiddling, I unchecked the box again, and it returned to normal.

I hit the mute button several times on the remote, and I did attempt to make it work. So who knows what I did.

Anyway, I may try again later, IF someone tells me that mute works for them in the TV program. I don't care all that much about changing the channel from the couch. Being able to MUTE without getting up is key. Some of these commercials put LOTS of bass in there, which you don't notice on some tinny little TV speaker but damn with a big over amped subwoofer, these !@#$% commercials can be painful.

Thanks for the reply.

MsB
 
Re: Fixed

Re: Fixed

banjomike said:
...IF someone tells me that mute works for them in the TV program. I don't care all that much about changing the channel from the couch. Being able to MUTE without getting up is key.
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The mute should almost work independently of the tv program. The way i thought that ati set it up was that the mute button, muted the main system output from your soundcard.

Unless they did something different with the tv program, if you hit mute and go into your volume control panel you should see the main output as muted.
 
thanx

thanx

Well however it works, it didn't when I installed it. I hit mute many times, nothing, and then later when I started up my computer, no sound at all, nothing I did had any effect. And I specifically checked the various mute switches and the switch that eventually fixed the problem. Maybe this is related to the fact that my Audigy, Radeon, and Tyan motherboard live in a very tenuous peace. Maybe I overreacted. It is very stable now (didn't used to be) but I have to be careful about what hardware and software I install.

Based on what NiDan said, I'm sure it was some delayed effect from the mute button, and I will try it again when I have the time to fiddle. Thanx, I luv this group, y'all have helped my system stability immensely.

(and damn JKII looks *****in at 1280 x whatever, in 32bit color, with anti-aliasing, and all that other stuff switched on)
 
Hmm weird. I installed the winamp plugin and fooled around with it. Now it seems like my volume is 1/2 of what it used to be, even though all the volume bars are at full.
 
vawlk said:
Hmm weird. I installed the winamp plugin and fooled around with it. Now it seems like my volume is 1/2 of what it used to be, even though all the volume bars are at full.
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i'm gonna assume that you always used to change the volume by using the dial on your speakers...

the winamp2 wavout plugin (the standard way that it plays sound) will actually alter the WAV volume in your system volume settings sometimes.
you'll see the little winamp volume slider move up and down, but at the same time will be changing the system wav volume to match the winamp volume.
It may not actually show up in the system menu until after you exit winamp though.

there is a checkbox in the config of that plugin that you can de-select and this shouldn't happen anymore. you'll need to restart winamp for it to take effect.

if this annoys you, i can alter my winamp plugin to allow the remote to make direct system calls and completely bypass winamp whenever volume is concerned...

let me know if any of this helps you out.

later...
 
Yes I use the speakers, and I know that some apps reduce the master volume, but all my volume levels are still at 100% in sndvol32.exe.

I used to listen to mp3s and play games with my speakers at about 1/4 volume. Now I have to turn them more than 1/2 way to get the same result.

It's quite annoying.

BTW, im just using the 1.0 version of the plugin. The volume thing happened right after playing with it for the first time.
 
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