Error Message: Audio is heard but not from all of the speakers.
What it means: Possibly one or more of the speakers is damaged or maybe the speaker jack is damaged.
What to do: Make sure that the right cables are plugged into the right holes as some users accidentally gets confused. Misrouted speaker signals may not play properly, so double-check your connections. Next thing to do is, open your audio adapter’s channel mixing software and make sure that all of your channels are not muted. If these above suggestions didn’t help you, try plugging the speakers into a different PC. If it works, then you need your sound card to be replaced.
Error Message: A background hiss is heard from the speakers, even though there is nothing playing.
WHat it means: A little hiss noise is inevitable in all amplified playback device. But at a certain range of volumes and recommended listening distance range one should not hear any hiss noise. If we put ear against the speakers, we will hear some definitely. The thing to watch out is that the hiss noise can increase to a noticeable level in case of poor quality components in the sound adapter.
What to do: Put the speakers at a reasonable distance from where you are listening. Most speakers can be mounted to a wall, you can do it as well. Midlevel speakers should be at least 2 feet from your ears and the high-end equipment like Logitech Z-680, Creative GigaWorks etc. should be at least 3 feet away. A good quality sound card from Creative Labs or M-Audio, should not introduce additional hiss into your playback at reasonable volume levels. One is more likely to get a hiss noise from cheap sound cards or integrated sound adapters which are built in motherboards. The easiest way to test this is to plug in a good quality sound card to replace the existing audio adapter. If the hiss stops, then you know where the problem was.
Error Message: “Code 28 (which says: The drivers for this device are not installed)” This error generally occurs in the sound card’s device properties after upgrading from Win2000 to Windows XP.
What it means: When upgragraidn the operating system, the WDM drivers are deleted. The newly installed Windows XP no longer needs those files and so they are deleted. But the problem is that the sound card’s software is designed to look for those files.
What to do: It might help if you check your existing sound adapter manufacturer for new drivers that is compatible with Windows XP. If there is no driver found then you are out of luck and the sound card will not work on windows XP anymore.
Error Message: “Ctplay2.exe/Eacontrol.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” This error occurs after installing Creative Labs Audigy card and its attendant software in Windows XP operating system.
What it means: Windows did not adjust its settings properly to make the Audigy card as the new default sound card.
What to do: Go to the “Sounds And Audio Devices” area of Control Panel. Click “Sounds And Audio Devices” and then click the Audio tab. In the Sound Playback field, use the Default device as Audigy card from the pull down menu. Click Apply to save the settings and then OK to exit.
Error Message: “Could not create file for recording, please ensure the recording folder exists.” This happens while recording a WAV file using Creative Recorder that comes with the Sound Blaster.
What it means: Creative Recorder stores files in a specific default folder. If the system can not find the defaultfolder, this problem arises.
What to do: Browse C:\PROGRAM FILES\CREATIVE folder from either Windows Explorer or My Computer. In the Recorder folder and make a new folder with the name RECORDINGS. Creative Recorder looks for this folder everytime.
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