on 1/2/06 9:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:04 AM, Kevin Clark wrote: > >> My "new" G4/800 won't emit any sound from either the system or any >> apps when >> booting into OS9. The OS9 Sound control panel doesn't show any >> "output" even >> though Sound Manager's extension is loaded. Volume on full but >> everything is >> silent. All sound works fine in OSX and in Classic but I have a >> legacy app >> that's OS9 only and that's why I still need to boot into OS9 >> directly. Any >> clues why I have no sound when booting into OS9 please? Thanks. >> >> Kev > > I've seen this several times and always managed to fix it. > > There are too many possible variables and without knowing what has > been done to your System it is difficult to diagnose. IIRC, Sound > Manager is a very old extension installed by some very old apps and a > holdover from OS 8. I don't think an OS 9 installation disk even has > it. It's absence or presence won't necessarily cause System- wide > sound problems, although, as mentioned, some old softwares install > and use it and may not work without it. > > As another poster recommended, a re- install of the System will > probably fix it, but I would try zapping the PRAM, first. > > d Instead of doing a re-install, start up from the OS 9 CD and open up the DriveSetup in the utilities in the Mac OS CD Window, then click your hard drive and click initialize and it will take everything off and start over again and it will update your Disk Drivers. Then to the clean install.
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