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Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 4:58 am
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Posted by frustrated user (1 messages posted)

I'm having a similar problem - the sound icon is gone in the system tray and all choices in control panel>sound>audio are greyed out. I'm on Windows ME and the solution you described doesn't seem to be available in ME.

On Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:24 am, mpruddy wrote:
>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:: re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (mpruddy: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:24 am)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Ken: Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 10:11 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Gerard: Monday, December 13, 2004 at 2:54 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (wizkid18: Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 9:12 pm)

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Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Jessica: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 8:10 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Jack Gulley: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 8:42 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (M.Rogers: Tue, Jan 27, 2004, 1:37 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Roelof Janssen: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 9:24 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Mark Rogers: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 9:13 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Tony Neave: Sat, Feb 21, 2004, 7:00 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Scott D: Sat, Apr 24, 2004, 8:04 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Chris Bennett: Tue, May 4, 2004, 5:11 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Jacques delorme: Sat, Sep 17, 2005, 11:04 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Richard: Fri, Dec 9, 2005, 11:39 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Richard: Fri, Dec 9, 2005, 12:34 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Keith: Mon, Dec 19, 2005, 10:56 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Pat McDonald: Tue, Dec 20, 2005, 8:32 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (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)

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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? (Ken: Thu, Nov 11, 2004, 10:11 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Gerard: Mon, Dec 13, 2004, 2:54 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (El Duderino: Fri, Dec 24, 2004, 1:08 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Chris: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 1:19 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (smithma: Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 7:42 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Chris: Sun, Jan 16, 2005, 7:15 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (robert: Mon, Jan 15, 2007, 3:20 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (wizkid18: Sun, Dec 17, 2006, 9:12 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (maria: Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 12:19 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Michael Ruddy: Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 1:48 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (maria: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 6:51 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Michael Ruddy: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 7:46 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Josh: Sat, Mar 19, 2005, 8:19 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (jrwasw888: Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 12:54 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Oxides: Fri, Oct 20, 2006, 10:32 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (maria: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 7:03 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Michael Ruddy: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 7:50 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (maria: Sun, Mar 20, 2005, 1:59 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Michael Ruddy: Sun, Mar 20, 2005, 3:28 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Keith: Mon, Mar 21, 2005, 4:18 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Keith: Mon, Apr 11, 2005, 7:45 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (andy: Thu, Mar 24, 2005, 11:09 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get my sound card to work? (Will: Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 9:52 am)

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re: How do I get my sound back? (Ed: Tue, Jul 17, 2007, 9:18 am)

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