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Computer Suckage Aboundeth
Feb. 19th, 2006 09:24 amI 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.
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.
