re: sound device error
Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 11:39 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mutton
(6 messages posted)
King,
I attempted your fix, but it did not work. One possible reason for the failure may
have been because I was not able to delete all of the "swenum" keys. In any case,
I was still able to resolve the issue so I thought I would add an alternate route
for those who cannot get it working even after trying your fix:
All I did was do a repair installation of Windows XP. For those of you who have
never done this, follow these steps...
NOTE: Before doing the repair installation, the PnP Software Enumerator was installed
(but broken, with the yellow icon) and my audio drivers were installed. I'm not
sure if it made a difference, but that was where I was before doing the following.
1) Insert your Windows XP CD and reboot your computer.
2) You will be booting from the CD, so make sure you have your BIOS set to boot from
CD-ROM before booting from hard drive.
3) It will ask you what you would like to do, choose install (do NOT choose repair
console, this is not the same as a repair installation).
4) After some setup, it will ask you if you would like to do a new installation or
repair an old one. Press 'R' to repair the old one.
5) Follow the steps to complete the installation.
HTH,
Andrew
On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 5:44 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 5:44 am)
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