re: sound device error Monday, December 20, 2004 at 6:55 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ina Maia (1 messages posted) Fantastic solution, especially since i have an old win98se installer, and xp allows me to right-click > expand into a temporary folder i created on my c: drive. my onboard sound is now working beautifully, after sp2. many many thanks! On Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 10:04 am, Mike wrote: >I noticed quite a few threads with this problem after a search on >Google Groups. Nothing helped, but I think I found the solution > >The symptom is that you see the message "driver is enabled but has not >been started" on the sound card settings, and everything sound card >related is working fine, except that message, and that you can't see >any audio devices in audio settings. > >Here's the solution that worked for me. > >First check your System group in Device Manager and see if you see an >entry called "Plug and Play Software Enumerator." If you don't see it, >then I have the solution for you. > >I remembered accidentally deleting Plug and Play Software Enumerator >from the System group in device manager. I reinstalled it, and >everything worked fine. > >Here's how to reinstall it: > >You'll need to find two files (try doing a Google Search) > >#1. swenum.inf >#2. swenum.sys > >Then Add New Hardware, System Device, and have disk. Choose swenum. >Install it. Reboot. > >Voila. It should be fixed. > > > Written in response to: re: sound device error (Mike: Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 10:04 am) Responses to this message: re: sound device error (GT-Force: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 9:33 am) re: sound device error (dennis: Monday, January 29, 2007 at 11:38 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??? 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