re: no playback device recognized
Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 2:43 am
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Posted by Jeff Newman
(1 messages posted)
i found this single solution elsewhere, and thought i'd at least try to spread the
concept.
first, most of the work revolves around the device manager. most likely, "the old
WDM trick" is the fix, but actually getting the fix to work properly seems to be
the issue.
the WDM trick is really that a System Device is not installed that is necessary for
the AC'97 drivers to work properly (although DM says the device IS working properly).
What you need to do is:
boot to safe mode. open the device manager, and remove all Multimedia/Sound and even
Video devices, and any other devices that didn't load correctly during the last normal
boot. also, specifically look for a system device called "Plug and Play Software
Device Enumerator". This is the actual system device that is usually missing, but
having more than one can cause problems as well. Remove it/them if they are there.
Reboot the system, and be sure to Cancel when you are prompted to locate the drivers
for the "PCI Multimedia Audio Device". this is your actual AC'97 device, but you
need the "Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator" located and installed prior to
this being installed, so just cancel it. you'll catch it later. load all the other
devices that are found as necessary, and reboot if prompted. reboot until the only
device(s) found are the "PCI Multimedia Audio Device".
go the the Control Panels, and open Add/Remove hardware, and manually add the System
Device called "Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator" under the Microsoft group
(it should be the only one listed in Win98). Install it, and even though not prompted,
reboot. let's let the driver load correctly and fresh.
this time try to locate and install the drivers for the "PC Multimedia Audio Device"
when prompted. your original CD would be helpful here. In my case, i'd always been
loading the WDM version of the drivers that were supplied, but i found that the non-WDM
version were the ones that worked, so find that driver if possible and load it (it
shouldn't have "(WDM)" listed after the "pretty name" of the found driver).
as soon as the AC'97 driver loads, you should hear sound. reboot just to be sure
once it's done loading.
after days of struggling with this issue, this was a 3 minute fix that worked the
first time. i now have another machine across town to try it on - i'm hoping !!!!!!!!
if this does work for you, go find one other thread you searched somewhere and pass
it along (enhance if necessary).
thanks!
On Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 4:31 pm, ckeener wrote:
>i just upgraded this weekend from a slot 1 p3 to a socket 478 p4. naturally, i switched
>out my motherboard, the processor and the ram, but that was all. everything else
>is the same. everything works fine, except the soundblaster pci 128. it appears
in
>device manager with the windows me driver installed.(no conflicts). it appears in
>the device list under multimedia properties, but under playback devices for audio
>and voice, it says "no playback device." i have tried removing and reinstalling
the
>multimedia feature of the operating system. i have tried installing the newer driver
>from creative (which crashed the system). i tried removing the pci 128 and using
>the integrated onboard sound device, same problem. if it helps, the new board is
>the gigabyte titan ga-8sr533. any ideas?
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