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by penguinsrule

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I have two problems on my Windows 98 system

1) If I try to access any program that uses sound I get an error that says "Failed to create directory" - I get this same error on different programs.

2) If I try to use the CD drive in a manner inwhich sound is involved, like playing an audio CD (It works fine loading a data cd, and I can copy just fine, etc..) then they system locks right up, and I am totally hung, and I can't get out of the situation - I can't even do a ctrl alt del, etc.

Any ideas?
THANKS

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by thechas

Some more details please.

What is the exact message you receive?
Including details if the details button is on the message box.
What application and / or folder is involved?

Is this on-board sound?
If so, who made the system / motherboard
What Sound card do you have?

What applications are running in the system tray?

Do you have any errors in device manager?

Can you run dxdiag (DirectX diagnostic) (from the run box)?
What errors do you get?

My suspicion, is that you havea rouge sound application, or a corrupt sound driver.

I myself, would make sure that I had the latest version of the sound drive,
Un-install the sound card from device manager,
Re-boot, and point the new hardware wizzard to the folder with the new sound driver files, and re-install the sound driver.

Chas

by zlitocook

Have you checked the device manager? It sounds like you have a conflict or access error. One of your devices is trying to use the same memory area or irq that another is using. Did you install any new software or hardware? Have you tried another cdrom in your computer? Try reseating the memory or using one stick at a time and see what happens. One of you memory sticks could be going bad.

by penguinsrule

It seems that this problem is isolated to music match software, I can play just fine with media player.

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