re: Windows reports ''no audio device'' Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 5:02 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by carsten (1 messages posted) One of my computers has had this problem for over 12 months now and I have tried all of the above but no luck. I came across a tip from the guys at TechRepublic. To view the orignal you'll need to logon and go to http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=731&tag=nl.e101. Basically I had to add the environment variable devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices and set it to 1 (one). Then go into the device manager and select "Show Hidden Devices". This now will display non-present devices. If it's not present then the device looks greyed out. Under the Sound, video & game controllers I had a heap of these devices, some were doubled up other I had four of. I uninstalled all these devices. When I rebooted I had that sweet sweet sound. Hope this helps somebody. 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