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re: sound device error
Monday, April 18, 2005 at 5:22 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lauren
(1 messages posted)
You guys are great. I have been struggling with this sound problem for over 6 months
and I had isolated it to a Plug and Play error but wasn't sure how to go about fixing
it. Your solution was easy and worked beautifully. Just wanted to say thanks.
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 2:59 pm, Tony Marques wrote:
>Again, these are instructions on how to install the Plug and Play Software Enumerator
>in XP/2k -- if it is missing. If it isn't missing and works then this wouldn't
be
>the cause of your audio problem.
>
>If you had problems with the previous instructions, here they are again.
>
>I presume swenum.inf is a Win9X/ME only file.
>The machine.inf solution should work for 2000 and XP. If you can't find or see
the
>files it may be because your explorer isn't configured to show system or hidden
files
>-- check your options or use a cmd prompt.
>
>From an MSDOS cmd prompt type or cut and paste
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>md \temp
>cd \temp
>copy %windir%\inf\machine.inf \temp\allmachine.inf
>copy %windir%\system32\drivers\swenum.sys \temp
>copy %windir%\system32\streamci.dll \temp
>notepad \temp\allmachine.inf
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>Using notepad go to line 22 (CTRL-G 22) which should be
>ExcludeFromSelect=*
>delete and remove that line wherever you find it (Line 20 maybe)
>and save the file
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>We're finished that part. Notepad and the cmd prompt can be closed. %windir% was
>probably c:\windows\ and that was automatically be expanded in the windows cmd prompt.
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>Now, just go to Add Hardware, add a new hardware device there at the bottom, install
>from list, next, have disk, and select the temp directory where we copied the files
>(c:\temp\ in the example here).
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>You should have all the different machine level services listed since we've removed
>the ExcludeFromSelect=* which hid them all. We only want to add Plug and Play Software
>Enumerator and nothing else so select and install only that.
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- Written in response to:
- re: sound device error (Tony Marques: Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 2:59 pm)
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| | | | | | | | | | re: hm (n1yso: Fri, Mar 19, 2004, 11:15 pm) |
| | | | | | | | | |  | re: hm (jozzer: Sun, Mar 28, 2004, 11:17 am) |
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