re: sound device error
Monday, May 2, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ryan
(1 messages posted)
Hello All,
I have a medion computer witn windows xp and service pack 2. Here are some of my
symptoms below for those spending many hours searching for the right forum and issue.
Eventually I just lived without sound for 5 months after giving up on hours of forums
and microsoft help pages and calling people up until i really needed it for a game...
I sure as hell wasnt going to buy a new computer. My original sound card was really
wasnt a card, it was built into the motherboard so you cant take it out like a card,
then after 5 months I bought a new one to put in an empty slot and the same error
crap comes up. Microsoft and card manufactures help pages wont do sh*t. Originally,my
sound card stopped working after I installed service pack 2, then I quickly reinstall
the whole windows and dumping the whole computer to get it to work, and i spent many
hours trying to fix the puzzle, its "like a game of it's own". I thought the sound
card was broken and bought a new one and it still didnt work. when you open a song
on media player, it comes up with a message that the device isnt installed or it
is being used by another program blah blah or somthing similar. In control panel
- sound and audio devices, it shows "No audio device" and everything is grayed out
so you cant select anything. I looked at solutions above and it mentioned checking
Device manager - system devices - plug and play software enumorator, but the plug
and play enumerator WAS PRESENT and it wont let you uninstall it, so i got stuck.
I tried it all and nothing worked EXCEPT for VEN's solution, just follow it and
it should work if you have the same problem as me. It didnt matter what card you
had, both the integrated sound card and my new one work now, so now I have 2 sound
cards working in my computer lol.
It was like finding the holy grail of XP - service pack 2 ultra-messed up sound card
problem
THANKS VEN, SUPER SOLUTION!! A+
On Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 6:02 am, Ven wrote:
>Hello to all,
>
>I got much useful information from this topic, but none of them resolved my sound
>problem. I use Windows XP SP2 on an Asus V7V8X and a Creative SB Audigy. I also
tried
>removing the SB card and enabling the built in VIA AC 97 without success.
>
>Then I tried removing and adding back the Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator
>as you suggested without success.
>
>Then I went further reinstalling some of the kernel sound drivers and that resolved
>the issue in my case so I describe my steps.
>
>First I suggest everyone to create a System Restore point to have something to return
>in case of something goes wrong. You can boot XP to safe mode by pressing F8 at
the
>beginning of the Windows startup and select Safe Mode if the system doesn’t start
>in normal mode and use System Restore there to go back to the working configuration.
>
>Then try these steps only if the others mentioned here don’t help. I had everything
>ok in Device Manager and every driver was running that should, compared to an other
>working system, but the symptom was that there was no sound coming out from the
sound
>card. Everything was OK in the Device Manager, but in the Sounds and Audio Devices
>Control Panel there was only the Voice recording option on the Voice tab, and the
>MIDI music playback (without the sound card being in the list) on the Audio tab
active.
>The others like Voice playback, Sound playback, Sound recording and everything on
>the Volume tab was grayed out.
>
>1. Create the restore point.
>
>2. On the System Properties panel, Advanced tab, Environment Variables button, under
>the User variables click New and create a variable named devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
>with the value of 1.
>
>3. Open the Device Manager and select Show hidden devices from the View menu.
>
>4. Under the Sound, video and game controllers group, find your sound card(s) and
>disable it/them (don’t need to uninstall).
>
>5. Then uninstall the following devices:
>- Microsoft Kernel Audio Splitter
>- Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device
>- Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer
>- Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver
>
>6. Select Scan for hardware changes from the Action menu. Now the system should
redetect
>and reinstall the deleted devices automatically. You may get non signed driver warnings,
>click continue.
>
>7. Enable the devices you disabled in step 4. You may need to restart the computer.
>The problem should be disappeared, you should be able to play sounds.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Ven
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- re: sound device error (Ven: Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 6:02 am)
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