re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:24 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by mpruddy (1 messages posted) Beginning 4 days ago my sound suddenly disappeared. I spent a lot of time installing and uninstalling sound cards changing bios settings and trying myriads of "fixes" from off the internet by people trying to help. The symptom was (other than no sound, of course) the "Sounds and Audio Devices" window from the control panel had the "Volume", "Audio", and "Voice" Tabs greyed out with "No Playback Devices" "No Media Devices" etc. showing in the greyed out dropdowns, indicating no sound system installed. Naturally a "indescriminate clicker" such as myself had no idea when it happened since I don't use sound that often. As I was sitting there contemplating a complete new install of Windows Xp, I decided to give it one more shot and "Voilá" the sound returned. Since I was unable to find this information by Google Search I decided to post it here in hopes the next fellow can find it. I am almost sure there would be similar fixes for Win98 etc. Here's the Drill: GO TO CONTROL PANEL (in Xp there are two views: complicated and simple referred to by Microsoft as Category and Classic) In "Classic" View: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > click plus on > Services and Applications > Services > scroll to AudioSrv > if it is disabled right click on it and click > Properties > change Startup type: window drop down to > "Automatic" and then click apply. Close out and Reboot and the sound will return assuming you have installed your sound card drivers correctly (if not reinstall them) "Category" view: Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > click plus on > Services and Applications > Services > scroll to AudioSrv > if it is disabled right click on it and click > Properties > change Startup type: window drop down to "Automatic" and then click apply. Close out and Reboot and the sound will return assuming you have installed your sound card drivers correctly (if not reinstall them) Written in response to: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Jessica: Sunday, December 28, 2003 at 8:10 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (frustrated user: Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 4:58 am) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? 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(Keith: Tue, Dec 20, 2005, 7:34 pm) Replacing system.ini did the trick for me (splitDiff: Sun, Jul 2, 2006, 9:49 am) re: Replacing system.ini did the trick for me (Richard: Mon, Jul 3, 2006, 9:56 am) Really old, and mixed-up thread (Kiwi: Sat, Dec 10, 2005, 4:29 am) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (maria: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 4:00 am) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Kraken: Wed, Mar 24, 2004, 11:36 am) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (George Hunter: Tue, Jul 17, 2007, 9:41 pm) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (vasu: Fri, Jul 23, 2004, 1:57 am) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Dean: Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 6:06 pm) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (mpruddy: Wed, Oct 27, 2004, 7:24 am) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (frustrated user: Sun, Oct 31, 2004, 4:58 am) re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? 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