wow it works Monday, November 29, 2004 at 11:24 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Wascomat (1 messages posted) I have used various fixes over the years but never stopped to thank the ones that gave me the 'fix' If it wasn't for this forum I would have spent a long time re-installing or repairing xp and then re-installing all the software that needed fixed after that. I found this on a Google search and found the right words to lead me here. I looked at 200/300 previous search results with no fix that worked. I was reluctant to go through all the 'hoops' with the msdos prompt so I tried it while still in windows by right-click dragging all 3 files into a new folder with the copy function. Then I renamed the machine.inf to allmachine.inf. Then I double-clicked it to remove the line as specified. Then saved it. The next part got confusing as I had to select the 'classic' mode to see the add hardware icon in the control panel\system selection. Then I guessed and selected a generic system device in the show all items selection (it may not matter) I refered to the new file I just saved. Then I scrolled the list to find that enumerator selection and added it. No reboot. No delay. Now my sound is back and by the way, I had a SoundBlaster Live card which I put in to try and get the sound back previously. It didn't work either until I did this enumerator add thing. Now they BOTH are active giving me a selection on all my audio stuff to select one or the other and they both work. (I may leave it in for awhile for fun) Many, many thanks to the persons responsible for this fix. I (oops) spent 20-30 hours trying everything I could and was within minutes of an XP repair. Thank you. On Monday, November 29, 2004 at 11:34 am, Tony Marques wrote: >It's been a year minus a week since I posted my two bits. > > Let me just repeat to everyone that is is not a method to install the sound card >drivers and you should not try to update ANY drivers with this proceedure. This >is simply to install the Plug and Play Software Enumerator if it is missing (again, >no updating). Once that is done then installing the Sound card and getting it to >work should be automatic, if the PnPSoftEnum was your problem. > > I'm also unsure about that other solution in this thread page where you get the >swenum.inf and .sys file from a win98 machine for use in winXP?! I've always assumed >this is the WinXP discussion form so I was talking to a WinXP audience. If that >method does work then it may only be because of windows file protection. Meanwhile, >with XP SP2, I don't think it's possible to uninstall the PnP Software Enumerator >anymore (not manually anyways), blah. > > I'll just direct you to this website which has a set of simple steps along with >some pictures... > http://www.tymes.net/swenum/fix-swenum0.htm > No more notepad in these directions. > > Written in response to: re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (Tony Marques: Monday, November 29, 2004 at 11:34 am) Responses to this message: re: wow it works (Ben: Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 7:12 am) All messages in this thread [show all] sound device error (tonyb: Fri, Oct 17, 2003, 2:50 pm) re: sound device error (Mike: Sat, Oct 18, 2003, 10:04 am) re: sound device error (Gwee Lin Lin: Sun, Nov 30, 2003, 2:52 am) re: sound device error (Tony Marques: Sat, Dec 6, 2003, 3:31 pm) re: sound device error (tushar: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 4:24 am) re: sound device error (Tony Marques: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 2:59 pm) re: sound device error (don: Tue, Apr 27, 2004, 12:50 am) re: sound device error (Lauren: Mon, Apr 18, 2005, 5:22 am) re: sound device error (BDKoster: Mon, Apr 18, 2005, 7:17 pm) re: sound device error (mindy: Sun, Feb 19, 2006, 4:59 pm) re: sound device error (Quinn: Wed, Mar 15, 2006, 5:17 pm) re: sound device error (Wade smith: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 9:10 am) re: sound device error (WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver code 38) (RichieP: Sat, Mar 25, 2006, 11:15 am) re: sound device error (WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver code 38) (steven: Mon, Apr 17, 2006, 5:28 am) re: sound device error (Gigaman: Sat, May 29, 2004, 1:09 am) re: sound device error (ABC123: Sat, Jun 5, 2004, 12:15 am) re: sound device error (Andrew: Sun, Jun 13, 2004, 10:58 pm) re: sound device error (pitshing: Wed, Jun 16, 2004, 8:04 pm) re: sound device error (Jonathan: Tue, Jun 22, 2004, 12:20 pm) re: sound device error (Knowenough2bdangerous: Mon, Jun 28, 2004, 9:13 am) re: sound device error (Aaron: Sun, Nov 21, 2004, 12:18 am) re: sound device error (Mr. Stress: Sat, Nov 27, 2004, 6:27 am) re: sound device error (Mr. Stress: Sat, Nov 27, 2004, 7:11 am) re: sound device error (mrbisco: Sun, Nov 28, 2004, 8:33 am) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (Tony Marques: Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 11:34 am) re: sound device error -- READ THIS TOO (blausand: Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 3:23 pm) wow it works (Wascomat: Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 11:24 pm) re: wow it works (Ben: Thu, Dec 16, 2004, 7:12 am) re: wow it works (Michael: Wed, Aug 9, 2006, 2:41 am) re: wow it works (James Saklas: Thu, Oct 5, 2006, 5:51 pm) re: wow it works (Steve: Sat, Dec 23, 2006, 12:53 pm) re: sound device error -- But my enumerator is present??? (Bill: Sat, Dec 11, 2004, 10:26 am) re: sound device error -- But my enumerator is present??? (Tony Marques: Mon, Dec 13, 2004, 2:17 am) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (Dave Segal: Sun, Dec 12, 2004, 10:15 pm) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (Tony Marques: Mon, Dec 13, 2004, 2:21 am) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (Dave Segal: Mon, Dec 13, 2004, 10:12 am) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (leigh: Thu, Dec 30, 2004, 7:14 pm) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (daks001: Fri, Dec 31, 2004, 12:23 am) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (Reflex: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 5:38 pm) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (ThanksMan: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 10:38 pm) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (HunTOR: Thu, Feb 10, 2005, 7:51 pm) re: sound device error -- READ THIS HERE (Carleton: Tue, Apr 5, 2005, 5:09 pm) re: sound device error (Mike Ledingham: Fri, Feb 4, 2005, 11:27 pm) re: sound device error (Shahmir Noorani: Sat, May 28, 2005, 8:20 pm) re: sound device error (Mark Brown: Thu, Aug 10, 2006, 10:24 am) re: sound device error (ML: Sat, Dec 1, 2007, 1:50 pm) It works!!! 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(Donald Lugo: Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 2:53 pm) Really, really DOES work!!! :-) (Sharon: Mon, Jul 24, 2006, 1:27 pm) re: sound device error (Van: Wed, Feb 4, 2004, 7:55 am) re: sound device error (blublu: Wed, Feb 25, 2004, 4:55 am) re: sound device error (keklin: Mon, Mar 1, 2004, 5:37 am) re: sound device error (Online: Tue, Mar 16, 2004, 3:46 am) re: sound device error (jozzer: Wed, Mar 31, 2004, 12:05 pm) re: sound device error (Todd: Tue, Nov 2, 2004, 9:30 pm) re: sound device error (Bill: Sun, Nov 28, 2004, 4:28 pm) re: sound device error (Michelle Y: Sun, Feb 27, 2005, 5:52 am) re: sound device error (Jon: Sat, Mar 19, 2005, 4:31 am) re: sound device error (jan: Sat, Oct 29, 2005, 5:38 pm) re: sound device error (Tony: Sat, Sep 2, 2006, 8:54 pm) re: sound device error (randy: Sun, Dec 16, 2007, 9:24 pm) re: sound device error (adam: Sun, Jan 6, 2008, 10:31 am) re: sound device error (Vannessa: Fri, Feb 1, 2008, 9:53 pm) re: sound device error (mike: Wed, Oct 20, 2004, 7:49 am) re: sound device error (Modi: Wed, Jul 6, 2005, 12:08 pm) [OT] Who solves the hard ones... 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