Feb. 19th, 2006

thewayne: (Headbanger)
I get home last night and there's a small mountain of dishes to be attacked, so I fire up my desktop computer to provide me with tunes whilst I do the dishes. Launch iTunes, see that the entire music library is started, hit play, anticipate swelling of cool toonage rising gently from my speakers.

No toonage.

Click play button again. Observe that it is still a Play button, not the Pause button that it should be. Observe that the little time bar on the top of the player is not advancing. Double-click on another song, same result. Change to a different play list and double-click on another song. Same result.

Pull up Windows Explorer, go to the drive that holds my entire music library, conveniently drive M:. All contents seem good. Double-click on random song. Said song is popped in to iTunes and doesn't play. Right click on song, tell it to play through Windows Media Player and I get an error message!

Apparently my sound card is not working. Why iTunes wouldn't raise an error I do not know.

Neither do I know what's going on. I have no system beeps of any flavor on my computer, so I don't know precisely when it stopped making noise. My system's installation history shows that a sound driver update was installed on 2/5, so that could be the reason.

Major PITB. Must remember in the future to not install sound driver updates unless absolutely required.


Even when I get the sound working, I still have the problem of my City of Heroes won't play because of my video card.

Sigh.

RAIN!

Feb. 19th, 2006 11:07 am
thewayne: (Default)
No snow, unfortunately. The observatory was shut down pretty much all of last night, which was unfortunate in a way as Russet had a science program for herself and some friends to do some observing with for first half. It's one of those nice, slow rains, and it's wonderful hearing it with all the trees and no traffic noises.

Sadly it's just a bit too warm, it was around 35f the last time that I looked at the temperature. Still, if it continues, there's a good chance it'll get colder and we might get some snow out of it.

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