re: sound device error
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 10:26 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob Clark
(1 messages posted)
I hope that I have placed my response/query in the right place. If not, blame it
on my inexperience.
After a major system failure, I reinstalled Windows XP Home on my PC, found that
I had no sound and saw that the Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator had the
yellow `problem' symbol. I uninstalled PnPSDE and hoped to reinstall it easily.
Having run into problems, I searched Goggle and found this site and thread. I followed
the advice initially given by Tony Maques and created a c:\temp folder and copied
the relevant files swenum.sys, streamci.dll and a copy of machine.inf from which
I deleted `ExcludeFromSelect=*' line. When I tried to Add New Hardware, I was and
still am unable to find PnPSDE among the System Tools. Hence, I cannot install it
or move on to the next step and install the relevant drivers.
Any suggestions?
On Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 10:33 am, michael wrote:
>Mike,
>
>I would like to add a few things to help those who may not figure out some of the
>steps. You can get the file swenum.sys, from your own computer in the windows/drivers
>cache/i386/drivers.cab left click to open the cab, then right click on swenum.sys
>to extract and put it in the swenum folder you have created.
>
>Then to get the swenum.inf go to windows/inf and copy machine.inf to your swenum
>folder. Find line 20 which reads Exclude from Select=* and delete it. Your newly
>created machine.inf will be the .inf you select when you browse to it from adding
>a new hardware device below.
>
>I tried to find these on google and everyone wanted to sell them.
>
>Also when you use device manager to reinstall your Plug and Play Enumerator, its
>a little tricky if you have not done it before. You pick install hardware, say you
>have already installed the device, go to the bottome pick new hardware, then from
>the list system device, the the plug and play enumerator, and then browse to you
>swenum folder and it will install.
>
>Thanks for posting this. It fixed my problem, which i had been working on for eight
>hours.
>
>
>
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- re: sound device error (michael: Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 10:33 am)
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