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Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 9:12 pm
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Posted by wizkid18 (1 messages posted)

I found a solution to the problem anter reading many different posts. This is what worked for me.

I editted the SYSTEM.INI file to ADD back some drivers that were removed. These were found in the default SYSTEM.INI file when you install WinME. These were under the [BOOT] section

[boot]
shell=Explorer.exe
system.drv=system.drv
drivers=mmsystem.dll power.drv
user.exe=user.exe
gdi.exe=gdi.exe
sound.drv=mmsound.drv <<----- Key entry ?

I think just the sound.drv line is the trick......

Next reboot in SAFE MODE.
Goto CONTROL PANEL->SYSTEM-> DEVICE MANAGER->SOUND,VIDEO and GAME CONTROLLERS and delete every entry found.

Now assuming you have the correct drivers loaded on your machine. A Reboot will rebuild the section back to normal. But make sure the sound.drv line is in the SYSSTEM.INI file or else this will not work.
4 hours I spent to research and correct the problem. Hope the best for you all. But I'm back working without a reinstall.

On Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 4:58 am, frustrated user wrote:
>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.
>
>
>

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Replacing system.ini did the trick for me (splitDiff: Sun, Jul 2, 2006, 9:49 am)

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