Problem with wave setting on volume controll - E-Machines (T2958) PC Desktop

Check for a volume control in the respective programs and turn the volume up

mike, Ihave answered this. If 25-30 does the job, behappy. Your wave is ok.

For Vista/windows 7
Check with volume settings.

?· Right click on the speaker icon in taskbar and select volume control options.

?· Put a check mark on "All devices currently playing sound".

?· Make sure you have "The default communication device unchecked".

?· Place a check mark on both speakers and headphones.

For Windows XP

- Speakers, Headphones

?· In "Control Panel", select "Switch to Classic View", and open "Sounds and Audio Devices".

?· In "Sounds and Audio Devices Properties", click the "Audio" tab, and click the "Volume" of "Sound playback".

?· On the "Master Volume" screen, click "Properties" in the "Options" menu.

?· Add a check mark to "Playback" of "Adjust volume for" on the "Properties" screen, and check marks to "Master Volume" and "Wave" for the control to be displayed, and click the "OK" button.

?· On the "Master Volume" screen, remove the check marks from "Mute all" of "Master Volume" and "Mute" of "Wave".
Note: The settings may differ depending on the PC you are using. Please check items such as sound in the manual for the PC you are using.

Go to Start - Programs - Accessories - Multimedia or Entertainment and then select Volume Control. Note: If you have more than one playback device installed in your computer, make sure that the proper device has been selected before modifying the mixer control settings. To do so, select Properties from the Options menu, and make sure that the proper device has been selected.
Make sure that the Mute All check box below the Volume Control slider and the Mute check box below the Wave slider are not checked, and that the Balance sliders for Volume Control and Wave are in the center of the scale.
Move the Volume Control and Wave sliders at least halfway to the top of the scale. If the Play Control and Wave sliders do not appear, select Properties from the Options menu, and then make sure the Play Control and Wave check boxes are checked. You may need to adjust the current Play Control or Wave slider settings to play wave files at the volume level you want.
If you hear popping or crackling noise from USB speakers, turn off the SpeedStep (if you have a Intel Mobile Pentium III processor) functionality during the sound session. To do so, set the power scheme to an non-adaptive mode: Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance, and click Power Options. On the Power Schemes tab, click Always On in the Power schemes box, and then click OK.

I can help you with your 'almost no sound' computer problem.

The best thing to do when you are not sure what your pc is doing with its sound is to bring up your audio mixer. Do this by right clicking on the volume control icon by the clock on your task bar and selecting 'Open Volume Control', or go through the Control Panel if your taskbar has no volume icon visible.

When looking at your mixer, set Master Volume and Wave mixer bars to about 75%. Now return to whatever application you are using and check where its volume is set. Generally, everything should be set to 75% and then your external speaker volume should be set to a comfortable level.

I hope that helps.

Skype has its own volume controle try to adjust it accordingly! if it is at highest so may be your wave volume is lowered. "Double click" on the speaker icon in the task bar. It will open the volume control panel. There you can see several volume controles. Usually the second one from left is the wave control.

Hope it helps
BR
Bruce

Monitor volume is affected by TWO volume controls (or even three...)
1: Volume on the monitor can be set to 80%
2: Main Volume on the COMPUTER can be set to your liking.
3: Wave volume on the computer mixer settings should be set for 80% (See Sound on your control panel or right click your volume control near the clock)

If all these are right and the volume is still low, check that the audio is not set for surround 5 or 7 channel and the monitor audio connector is plugged into the REAR green connection on the computer.

Still problems, the audio driver in the monitor is shot.

Right click on Systray Speaker icon.
"Open Volume control"
Do you see Microphone column? Be sure is NOT muted.
If you do NOT see it: Option / Properties check if sound device is the correct one (if you have multiple),
Set Playback and mark the control to show (including Mike)
You can now see and tune your Micro volume.

Same process for recording devices: set Recording etc..

2 things to check:
1. is the speechmike set as default playback device: go to Control Panel--> Sounds and Audio Devices; and in the opening window, go under the Audio tab; in the Sound Playback, the default device should be set to SpeecMike II if you want the sound to come out of the SpeechMike.
2. Playback volumes: still in the same tab, click the Volume button of the default device; it opens a set of volume controls; you need to ensure that for the WAVE, and Speaker (or Volume Control), the Mute box isn't ticked; you also want to set this volume to something not equal to zero (i.e. move the cursor up to at least 1/3 of the level).

I hope this helps.

I have nver come accross a setting that will lock the volume to a set level before, but here are a couple of possibilities that you may want to investigate for the cause.

1. Not all programs use the master volume control, so do, but most adjust the sound by the wav output. Put the mixer onto the desktop, open things like winamp, media player etc and adjust the volume controls on those to see what is doing what.
2. If you have a multimedia keyboard with a volume control on it, make sure when your typing it's not adjusting the volume at the same time. Again, put the mixer on the desktop out of the way and type as you would normally. It could even be just the vibrations from typing setting it off.

See how you go and post back your results