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re: sound device error
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 12:49 pm
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Posted by kmfsm (1 messages posted)

This is the one that worked for me.
>
>
>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.
>
>
> Many thanks for this solution.
>
>

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re: sound device error (Ven: Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 6:02 am)

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