I am running Windows Me and have no sound. When I go to control panel/sound and select a sound than try to play it there I get this message - windows cannot play the sound c:/windows\media chord wav. Your sound card may be in use. Also I am not able to adjust the volume on the bar, plus the show volume control on the taskbar is blacked out.

From the system properies/device/ sound, video and game controllers/ listed there is Wave Device for Voice Modem and it says it is working properly. But right above that is listed Other Devices/ under that CM18330\C3D Audio Adapter is listed 4 times with the yellow mark- and when I look it says driver not installed. I have no idea what that is and would it be safe to remove those 4? Does anyone know what I can do to correct this? Thank you.
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24-Mar-2006 11:19 PM

Hya Ochs , welcome to PCHF.

The "Wave Device for Voice Modem" is not from youre sound card but youre modem instead.

Remove those 4 "CM18330\C3D Audio Adapters" from the device manager , and reboot youre pc when done. Windows should reinstall the soundcard on boot up and hopefully only one this time.

Thank you very much, my problem is now solved. So glad I came upon this site.

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