MIDI problem

[Dunenewt]

For some reason whenever I play MIDI files no sound is produced. Help!

I have an AC97 sound card and I'm using Media Player 7

[Nyarlathotep]

Did it ever work before ? Everything updated ? Is it just MIDI that you have a problem with ?

[Dunenewt]

Yes to all

[Nyarlathotep]

What changed since the last time it worked ?

[Dunenewt]

I upgraded to MP7

[Nyarlathotep]

What OS are you running ? A dxdiag would help also..

[gryphon]

If still no luck, try looking with your sound settings. Volume controle and then the advanced option. It could be the MIDI option has been turned off by the installer.

[Dunenewt]

How do i get a dxdiag?

[gryphon]

click start - run - dxdiag.

Let the tool do his job and then select save all information.

[Dunenewt]

here it is[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[gryphon]

First look would indicate a possible problem with a couple of directX files. You could try if upgrading it to DirectX 9 solves it.

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DxDiag Notes

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DirectX Files Tab: The file iac25_32.ax is a beta version, which is unsupported and could cause problems.

You should reinstall DirectX to get the latest version.

Hey MOD's, just thought of this. If we quote parts of the DirectX files we think need attention, every one could learn a bit themselfs about it and mayby also enjoy it finding errors in them ?

[Dunenewt]

No difference

[number6]

I have never had this problem, but I found this in an unrelated tech support web search:

16. I recently upgraded to Windows Media Player 7.0...

Excellent question. We'll break it down into a few parts because we ran into this same question in our department last week. First, Media Player does support MIDI files (as well as asx, wav, avi, mpeg, vod, au, aiff, rmi, mp3, quicktime, realvideo and realaudio). Second, Media Player 7 will only work if you are running Windows 98 or 2000 (if you are running Windows 95 or Windows NT4, forget it, the headaches you encounter will be enormous!). We don't know the specific cause of the problem you are having, but may be able to offer a fix! We assume you are running Windows 98 or 2000. Here are 2 options: 1) try re-installing Media Player 7.0 and be sure to select it as your default player for the types of media it will support... if you already selected it as your default player... - before re-installing, you might want to try selecting Media Player 7.0 as your default player for various media by opening Media Player, then clicking on "view," then select "options," then select "formats," then select all of the forms of media you want Media Player to handle, then click on "apply," and finally click on "close"... 2) instead of downloading Media Player 7.0 independently, download it along with Internet Explorer 5.5. During the process, you may receive a message saying, "you have all of the selected components"... select "proceed to re-install all components anyway." We did an independent download of Media Player in the spring (it was version 6.4) on a computer to be used for a presentation and Media Player would not play any of the media we wanted it to play. We then downloaded it again as part of an Internet Explorer download and it worked! The mysteries of computing!!!

Maybe reinstalling a newer version of IE that includes the media player 7 will help? Sounds crazy to me, but it may work.