re: sound device error
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tom
(1 messages posted)
How does one restore the kernel sound drivers?
i deleted them before i made the checkpoint.
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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