IRRC, my solution fixed it for me... so I have no other advice. Except possibly wavemapper corruption in your registry which you've already tried, right?

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/08/15/adobe-flash-no-sound-wavemapper-trick/

Sky101

United States1758 Posts

November 10 2009 00:01 GMT

#25

I can just sell you my old soundcard for $5 plus shipping :D

PanoRaMa

United States5069 Posts

November 10 2009 23:26 GMT

#26

On November 10 2009 05:38 Patriot.dlk wrote:
Sigh. Bedtime is coming up guess that means I can't remote today so instead try these steps:

Confirm that the WaveMapper sub key is in the system registry:

1. Select Start > Run.
2. Type in regedit in the Open text box.
3. Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
4. On the right panel, check for a sub key called wavemapper.
5. If it is missing, right-click on the right panel and select New String Value.
6. Name the new string value wavemapper
7. Right-click on the new wavemapper string value and select Modify.
8. Add the Value data msacm32.drv

I already have the wavemapper string with the msacm32.drv value in my registry. We can remote later though whenever you have time

On November 10 2009 05:42 Equaoh wrote:
It's from the same site I linked earlier:
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BAsically when windows does a fresh install and does not find a sound card, the default microsoft codecs are not installed. When you install the sound card drivers, most sound card drivers are clever enough to install the default Microsoft codecs for you, but some do not (like mine, it usually the "smaller" manufacturers that cut back on this - never had problem with creative sound cards!).
Anyways, you can check the codecs installed by going to control panel, sound and audio controllers, going to hardware tab, clicking the audio codecs entry and selecting properties. before you run the above fix, you will find 2-3 entries in there. Running the reg fix above wil add the entries in, but you may find that if the *.acm files that are required are missing then those codecs do not actually work. Alternative way is ensure the required files are copied is to install them manually :-

1. control panel, add hardware, next, YES hardware connected, goto bottom of list for add a new hardware device.
2. Install hardware manually (Advanced), select sound, video and game controllers, have disk and point to "C:\windows\system32" and file mmdriver.inf.
3. Select a codec to install, you maybe asked for windows xp disk.
4. repeat until all codecs are installed.

do not install the (MCI) ones as they are legacy.

Trying this out, but there are some codecs that need the windows disk which I don't have

On November 10 2009 05:59 ghermination wrote:
Have you done a full virus scan? It seems like you've done everything else than that.

Ya, AVG scans everyday etc.

On November 10 2009 05:42 Jadyks wrote:
uninstall flash, install flash 8, success. lol. it should work either way.

Youtube is incompatible w/ Flash 8 so that doesn't really help either D:

FWIW, my Windows Sounds also don't seem to work but I don't know if that's related. Even when I go into Control Panel->Sounds and Audio->Sounds and try to manually play the sounds they don't emit any sound. I just reinstalled my sound card driver and that didn't help either, realtek btw :|. Thoughts?

ShoCkeyy

7815 Posts

November 10 2009 23:30 GMT

#27

On November 11 2009 08:26 PanoRaMa wrote:

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I already have the wavemapper string with the msacm32.drv value in my registry. We can remote later though whenever you have time

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Trying this out, but there are some codecs that need the windows disk which I don't have

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Ya, AVG scans everyday etc.

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Talk to your computer brand live support. They should fix it. This would happen to me with my realtek on my sony vaio.

PanoRaMa

United States5069 Posts

November 10 2009 23:34 GMT

#28

Ok, since reinstalling my sound card driver I now have ZERO audio, including from winamp. UGH.

Would buying a new sound card completely fix this and my flash audio problem? I don't know if it matters but I have a Dell Inspiron 530S and the tower is a bit smaller than usual towers, does that mean the actual sound card hardware is smaller and so I can only use say, dell-approved sound cards that can fit inside the tower?

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

November 10 2009 23:43 GMT

#29

On November 10 2009 03:44 Piste wrote:
I have randomly the same problem. sometimes audio works and sometimes it doesn't.
I have no idea why. This problem started just quite recently.

i know this sounds dumb but, did you hit the mute button on your keyboard?

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

November 10 2009 23:44 GMT

#30

On November 11 2009 08:34 PanoRaMa wrote:
Ok, since reinstalling my sound card driver I now have ZERO audio, including from winamp. UGH.

Would buying a new sound card completely fix this and my flash audio problem? I don't know if it matters but I have a Dell Inspiron 530S and the tower is a bit smaller than usual towers, does that mean the actual sound card hardware is smaller and so I can only use say, dell-approved sound cards that can fit inside the tower?

it's worth a shot, hit up fry's. if it doesn't work just return it. (and no you don't need a specific one, just make sure you have a PCI slot open and eyeball the amount of space for a card.)

PS- Pano, when did this start happening? How have you been viewing flash as an alternative?

There is a FF plugin that I use to download videos from youtube, if you were to DL a video could you play it in VLC and get sound?

PanoRaMa

United States5069 Posts

November 10 2009 23:54 GMT

#31

Started happening 3 months ago but I was on a long vacation. I'm not sure what you mean by flash as an alternative.

Well VLC works fine and I imagine downloaded vids would work too. But after messing with my sound card drivers I now have zero sound throughout my entire computer. fwkje4fldf

PanoRaMa

United States5069 Posts

November 11 2009 04:08 GMT

#32

UPDATE - Ok I think I've isolated it to be a sound card issue. Somewhere down the line my flash audio was fixed but sound from my computer died. I realized at some point that this wasn't a Flash issue anymore and became a sound card issue. Seems like the sound card works supposedly, but the inputs in the back are messed up (since the front headphone input works).

So I'm not really sure what exactly got my Flash audio working again. It probably was reinstalling the sound card for the 5th time (when I decided on a dell-suggested version rather than the latest realtek version), or it could've been one of the many random things I had been doing these past 2 days. Therefore, I'll just split the $20 between people who I think contributed most to helping my situation:

Sky101, Equaoh, Shockeyy (For suggesting live support which led me to the on-system Dell Support Center that has recommended driver updates)

ShoCkeyy

7815 Posts

November 11 2009 04:16 GMT

#33

Hmm, you're welcomed!