beelzerob
Senior Member
So I began to realize that my TTS wasn't working anymore. So, I went over and did the first check, which was to make sure the PC volume was up. So I clicked the little speaker icon, and ya, the slider was up near the top. I clicked on the slider, and you know how normally that should produce a "beep" from Windows? Well...nothing. So, I checked the PC speaker volume, and it wasn't too low to hear anything.
I wrote a string to the SayText field of the TTS just to see, and I actually could hear it, but it was REALLY faint. I had the speaker volume cranked all the way, and could still barely hear it.
So figuring it was just some windows oddity bug that commonly occurs, I rebooted. Well, when it shut down, I heard, in perfect volume, the windows shutting-down theme. Then, upon coming back up, I heard the windows starting theme. But once again, clicking on the volume slider does not produce an audible ding, and the TTS is still too faint to be audible.
I started up windows media player, and chose a sample clip at random, and IT played ok so I could hear it. But my wife this morning was claiming that video's from the internet didn't have any sound.
A few days later, my wife thanked me for fixing the issue. Unfortunately...I hadn't. But suddenly the TTS was working again. And now....it stopped again.
So, I did a completely system reinstall, loaded the latest motherboard drivers....and it's still a problem.
Grrrrrr... Anyone have any ideas of how to troubleshoot this? I just can't fathom that it's a hardware issue, as SOME sounds are coming through in perfect volume, and it's not only one type (.wav) that aren't. But I have no idea why a system reinstall wouldn't clear it up either.
I wrote a string to the SayText field of the TTS just to see, and I actually could hear it, but it was REALLY faint. I had the speaker volume cranked all the way, and could still barely hear it.
So figuring it was just some windows oddity bug that commonly occurs, I rebooted. Well, when it shut down, I heard, in perfect volume, the windows shutting-down theme. Then, upon coming back up, I heard the windows starting theme. But once again, clicking on the volume slider does not produce an audible ding, and the TTS is still too faint to be audible.
I started up windows media player, and chose a sample clip at random, and IT played ok so I could hear it. But my wife this morning was claiming that video's from the internet didn't have any sound.
A few days later, my wife thanked me for fixing the issue. Unfortunately...I hadn't. But suddenly the TTS was working again. And now....it stopped again.
So, I did a completely system reinstall, loaded the latest motherboard drivers....and it's still a problem.
Grrrrrr... Anyone have any ideas of how to troubleshoot this? I just can't fathom that it's a hardware issue, as SOME sounds are coming through in perfect volume, and it's not only one type (.wav) that aren't. But I have no idea why a system reinstall wouldn't clear it up either.