re: sound device error
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 at 9:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Heather
(1 messages posted)
im freaking out! Me & my mother moved to a new house & i didnt really feel like moving
the computer up stairs to my room so i just left it downstairs, it worked fine down
there. A few months later i decided i would put it in my room because i needed it
for homework..well i moved it up here & like regular other teenagers i needed music
while i work. so i tried my windows media player & it didnt work i thought maybe
its just a bug. so i did disk clean ups & stuff like that. let it be for a week &
came back and it still said like that a sound device is not installed
all i want are answers for free that are relitively simple.. thats all i ask is that
so hard??
anyone have simple answers?
email me at Beautifultexan20@yahoo.com.
On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 4:55 am, King wrote:
>Hi to all!
>
>This message goes out to all of you who hadn't the luck to get their sound back
to
>life with the given solutions in this thread:
>I followed all steps, but still my "PnP software enumerator" (or in german "PnP
Softwaregeräte
>Enumerator") told me that he couldn't load the needed drivers. Consequently I had
>still no sound. I also made a windows repair install, but the problem was still
there.
>After hundreds of trial & errors I finally came to a solution for WIN XP!:
>
>1.) Deinstall your sound drivers. Save streamci.dll and swenum.sys and machine.inf
>to a temp folder as mentioned above.
>2.) Deinstall your failing "PnP software enumerator".
>3.) Go into the registry via regedit or the editor of your choice. In there close
>all keys so you just see "my work", "workplace" or whatever the englisch name for
>the german "Arbeitsplatz" is (it has a little computer symbol next to its name,
I
>guess you know what I mean.)
>4.) Then search for "swenum". Delete every key that you find. Before you do so I
>highly recommend to create a system restore point or a backup of your registry,
just
>in case something goes wrong. You have to delete the whole key, not just the line
>with "swenum" in it. For example: You'll find the word "swenum" in a key where you
>can also find "pnp software enumerator" and some other entries. Again :You have
to
>delete the whole key. On the left side you see an open folder in which you are in
>right now, deleteing this folder means to delete the whole key. Do so, it the quickest
>and easiest way. If there comes a warning that you don't have the permission to
do
>so, right click the folder and give yourself the permissions to delete the folder
>;-)
>Do this for all keys where you find the "swenum" in it. You should find about 5-10
>keys.
>5.) After you finished close the editor and reopen it again. Research the registry
>to make sure their is no more swenum entry.
>6.) Restart, then check your registry again. Just for the case Win XP has reinstalled
>something. If you find another "swenum" entry delete it. Do also search for "PnP
>software enumerator". If you have done right before you shouldn't find anything.
>If you do anyway, delete the whole key again.
>7.) Go to "windows/system32/drivers" and delete swenum.sys.
>Also go to "windows/system32" and delete the file streamci.dll (don't do that if
>you have forgotton to follow step1 of my description!)
>8.) Now reinstall your "PnP software enumerator" following the steps mentioned in
>the posts above. (In the hardware manager click "have disk" and choose your temp
>folder and the inf file in there, choose "PnP software enumerator" under standard
>devices or something like that).
>9.) If you have done right you should have the "PnP software enumerator" back without
>showing any errors. If you have done right Win XP shouldn't ask you to restart.
Now
>install your sound drivers, restart and be happy again.
>
>I hope this solution did the trick for those who didn't find the posts above solving
>their problems. Maybe some steps can be left out, but I recommend to follow all
of
>them, because I'm not sure where the errors is hiding exactly.
- Written in response to:
- re: sound device error (King: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 4:55 am)
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