re: no playback device recognized
Friday, September 26, 2008 at 8:30 am
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Posted by angel g
(1 messages posted)
do you think that same stratergie would work for xp?
On Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 2:43 am, Jeff Newman wrote:
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>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:
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>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!
>
>
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