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by kwoerner

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I have several win98 2nd ed. machines with the same problem. Windows Media Player will play all sounds. Yet when inserting sounds into PPoint or other MS apps, I get the error, "MMSYSTEM236, no wave device that can play files in the current formatis installed." No conflicts are showing. I followed the advice of Microsoft article Q133365 - remove and reinstall audio compression and the three msacm system files. This fixes the problem temporarily, but it's back inside of 2 days. Any ideas as to the cause of this and a permanent fix?

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by red dragoon

I recently had a problem similar to this.

Try this solution:

1. Open your PC case.
2. Get the exact name of the sound card including manufacturer and part number.
3. Find the drivers on the Internet. Try driverguide.com if you have trouble.4. Remove the device from your Device Manager.
5. Reinstall the device with the correct drivers.

Good luck.

by kwoerner

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I had already tried this. These machines are from Gateway and all have the sound card integrated on the motherboard. I used the most recent driver available from Gateway with no difference.

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