No Voice!

[param]

Just a few days ago I found to my surprise that the sound is not working in windows 7RC while it is working in XP. Did microsoft block it as I am thinking? I tried sound recorder with the same result and an error message 'sound recorder not available'. If this is from microsoft they should have sent a notification. Anybody has any similar experience?Any information regarding this?

 

[seekermeister]

Something else is wrong, sound is not blocked in any version of W7. I would start by looking at the sound card and driver in the Device Manager.

 

[BugMeister]

can you post a dxdiag print-out
it might show some clues..

 

[fireberd]

Normally, the XP sound drivers are incompatible with Win 7 (or Vista). Do you have at a minimum Vista sound drivers you can install.

Vista (and Win 7) handle the sound functions differently than older OS' such as XP and the reason (in almost every case) a new sound driver is installed. In some cases Win 7 will search and install the correct driver, apparently it could not find one so you will have to provide it.

 

[param]

Thank you very much to all. It was working fine till recently. Strangely one day it happened. I checked device manager, looks everything normal and XP in another partition working fine. Anyway, I will check further. Thank you.

 

[param]

I tried to update the driver even though the status of the device read 'working normally'. But the driver is up to date. Really very strange!