I am currently receiving when I double click on a WAV file a message from Media Player as Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available, or the hardware is not responding. (Error=80040256). (Media Player was recently installed with an upgrade to I.E. 5.50.4134 although I think the sound problem existed before the upgrade)
If I use Wave Player software from DRSOUND and hit the same *.WAV file I get the error message Mmsystem320 all wave devices that play files in this format are in use.
In both cases no sound is hear althought via the CDROM and headsets sound can be heard. I do get the beep when Windows 95 welcome screen displays.Sound via the sound card has worked for at least 2 years and only recently has stopped working. The control panel does not show a conflict……Any ideas where I should look to solve this problem