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re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Monday, August 8, 2005 at 9:36 pm Posted by cpt (1134 messages posted) What's your question? On Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 7:08 pm, Mycall wrote: >I have a question about What >do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 7:35 am Posted by MrTeutonic (1 messages posted) On Monday, August 8, 2005 at 9:36 pm, cpt wrote: >What's your question? I have the same problem: when clicking volume control, a message window appears "There are no active mixer devices available. To install mixer devices, go to Control Panel click Printers and other Hardware (sic) and the click Add Hardware". Open Volume control is suggested to get sound back onto the computer - mine worked till I started messing with msconfig/startup - since then it does not make any sound :( Any help much appreciated. Note: Control Panel / Add Hardware does not find anything to install. When looking at Sound in the device manager, no problems with any device. Thanks for your help!!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm Posted by number41writer (1 messages posted) I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click and click on Properties. Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and -- voila! -- it worked.) Hope this works for you, too. On Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 7:08 pm, Mycall wrote: >I have a question about What >do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 6:10 pm Posted by Himanshu (1 messages posted) My computer showing error there are no mixer device avaliable Plese help My Compuer is running widow XP [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9:45 am Posted by Adarsh Krishnan R (1 messages posted) Thanks a lot, I too had the same problem and I had been breaking my head over it, even was considering reinstalling XP. But your trick worked On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, January 13, 2006 at 11:07 pm Posted by Gaspar (1 messages posted) The easiest trick is just to reboot your machine, if turning on the service through services.msc doesn't work. Reinstall Windows? good grief! On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 6:10 pm, Himanshu wrote: > >My computer showing error there are no mixer device avaliable Plese help My Compuer >is running widow XP [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 12:58 pm Posted by Kristi (17 messages posted) Haha HEY! Im such a dummy lol well not really but I figured if the thing said it was on start it was on start. The first 5 times I did this I didnt look under service status to make SURE it was on start hehe. Now it is. So thanks very much. Does anyone know WHY this happens? Ive never had it happen before so it scared me a bit... okay alot... Thanks Google and Number41 :o) Kristi On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 7:54 am Posted by jima (1 messages posted) Thanks for a great hint - and SO SIMPLE! I replaced a motherboard on an e-machine system and had everything working but the sound. Tried all other "solutions" (uninstalling and reinstalling sound drivers, installing the latest version of sound drivers, stripping the registry of all previous sound drivers, stripping all non-motherboard PCI\VEN_ids from the registry, cleaning up the *.inf files, reinstalling Windows, etc.) The device list was always clean, but the sound never worked. After spending more than 12 hours on this problem, your solution took only two minutes to fix. Thanks!!!! On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Monday, March 27, 2006 at 10:46 am Posted by gauravkakran (1 messages posted) namskar sir, i am gaurav where i culd find the mixer devices [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Monday, April 24, 2006 at 3:57 am Posted by Bren45t6 (1 messages posted) OK what to do now when this fails too? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 5:52 am Posted by alan (1 messages posted) excellent advice - clicked start after running services.msc - windows alert - (was showing stopped) - worked first time On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 6:23 pm Posted by Henne (1 messages posted) Thank you very much! It worked for me in the middle of night:) I have been watching my drama series now:) On Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 7:54 am, jima wrote: >Thanks for a great hint - and SO SIMPLE! I replaced a motherboard on an e-machine >system and had everything working but the sound. Tried all other "solutions" (uninstalling >and reinstalling sound drivers, installing the latest version of sound drivers, stripping >the registry of all previous sound drivers, stripping all non-motherboard PCI\VEN_ids >from the registry, cleaning up the *.inf files, reinstalling Windows, etc.) The >device list was always clean, but the sound never worked. After spending more than >12 hours on this problem, your solution took only two minutes to fix. Thanks!!!! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 1:06 pm Posted by Chris Torres (1 messages posted) This worked perfectly. Thank you! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 7:38 pm Posted by Boston Red (1 messages posted) Just wanted to say thanks too - the fix worked perfectly. I just wanted to add that I think my problem was cause by me running a DOS version of the game Settlers II - it always reports some sort of audio conflict when I start it up, and I guess this is what 'stopped' the service. I was pulling my hair out as iTunes wasn't working...so thanks! On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 10:56 pm Posted by qot (2 messages posted) Hi All, My operating system is windows 2000, and i do not have an option windows audio in services.msc, Can someone help me out? Thanx [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 10:58 pm Posted by qot (2 messages posted) Hi My operating system is windows 2000, and i do not have windows audio option in services.msc. Can someone out there help me out? Thanx [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 12:55 am Posted by bala (1 messages posted) hi i ve encountered wit this problem help me out >My computer showing error there are no mixer device avaliable Plese help My Compuer >is running window XP [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, August 11, 2006 at 7:21 am Posted by dion (1 messages posted) I have the same error come up when i try to go into the sound options...so i tryed what u guys said but it failed because i caqn not press the start button because it is grayed out and it says it is all ready started...does anyone no how to fix this problem [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 4:01 am Posted by Nathan Meunier (1 messages posted) I am getting this same message, only the Windows audio service is started, and the problem started when I was trying to clear some space by deleting some unused software from my hard drive. Could I have deleted something I shouldn't have? Any tips/advice? -nate On Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 7:08 pm, Mycall wrote: >I have a question about What >do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 7:20 pm Posted by joezor (1 messages posted) as for me too, the problem started when i cleared space on my hard drive and uninstalled something accidentally. i think it was something called "soundmax". don't know how to reinstall it, assuming that's where the problem is. On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 4:01 am, Nathan Meunier wrote: >I am getting this same message, only the Windows audio service is started, and the >problem started when I was trying to clear some space by deleting some unused software >from my hard drive. Could I have deleted something I shouldn't have? Any tips/advice? > -nate > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Monday, September 11, 2006 at 7:31 am Posted by Toby Anderson (1 messages posted) I do not know a permanent fix at this time; however, I know how to quickly fix it without restarting. I have a Create SB Audigy 2 ZS soundcard. Whenever I start getting error that "There are no active mixer devices available", here is what I do... I go to Device Manager, right-click on the "Creative Game Port" device and uninstall it. Then, I right-click on "Sound, video and game controllers" and select "Scan for hardware changes". That will get the sound running until the next reboot or so. I wish I knew how to permanently fix it. On Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 7:35 am, MrTeutonic wrote: > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Monday, September 11, 2006 at 12:30 pm Posted by theresa (1 messages posted) AMAZING!! Thank you so much, this worked!! On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 5:42 pm Posted by Phil (1 messages posted) Hello Number41Writer. You are the greatest. Thank you, wherever you are. Phil On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 3:20 pm Posted by ally (1 messages posted) Solution for All: I got the same prob bft...just following the steps: 1.Start-All programs-Accessories-system tools- system restore. 2.Select Restore my computer to an earlier time,press nxt. 3.choose a date which ur audio device was working properly...then following the instruction...aft that restart ur computer...it shud b workin then...Good Luck guys.... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, September 15, 2006 at 3:25 pm Posted by Joel (1 messages posted) Many thanks for posting your solution. I have spent several frustrating weeks trying to figure out how to solve this intermittent problem on my Dell laptop. On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 6:26 am Posted by ChrisB (1 messages posted) Thanks so much--have been looking for a quick or permanent fix for this since reinstalling XP a few weeks ago. I notice that this works too for a while after the restart: start > Run > "msconfig" > Services > uncheck "Windows Audio" > Enable All > OK > Restart. If anyone knows a permanent solution (rather than has an educated guess about one--there are plenty of them posted around the Web already!) , it'd be great if they could post it. Many thanks! On Monday, September 11, 2006 at 7:31 am, Toby Anderson wrote: >I do not know a permanent fix at this time; however, I know how to quickly fix it >without restarting. I have a Create SB Audigy 2 ZS soundcard. Whenever I start >getting error that "There are no active mixer devices available", here is what I >do... > >I go to Device Manager, right-click on the "Creative Game Port" device and uninstall >it. Then, I right-click on "Sound, video and game controllers" and select "Scan >for hardware changes". > >That will get the sound running until the next reboot or so. I wish I knew how to >permanently fix it. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 1:44 pm Posted by dbhero (1 messages posted) Solution! No need to restore! Controlpanel->admin tools-> computer management->drivers somehow right click multimedia audio controller...told me driver is missing. I clicked, install this driver & it installed realtek ac 97 for my compaq running XP. Driver details points to file: c:\system\alcxmntr.exe. Not quite sure how I got there...but keep hunting, you'll get there. When I clicked search for new hardware or went thrrough trogbleshoot could not find resolve...just played around and got it working. I wonder if a virus erased this file since so many people impacted. Thats all I know..please don't ask me questions via email...I'm an expert in databases not PCs. HTH. On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 7:20 pm, joezor wrote: > >as for me too, the problem started when i cleared space on my hard drive and uninstalled >something accidentally. i think it was something called "soundmax". don't know how >to reinstall it, assuming that's where the problem is. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 2:21 pm Posted by FEZ NKOMBI (2 messages posted) No sound iscoming from my speakers. i get message"no mixer devices' [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 2:48 pm Posted by Rep17 (1 messages posted) Thanks sooooo MUCH number41writer! I did exactly what you said and it fixed mine! YAY! thanks a bunch! On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 8:53 pm Posted by Matt (1 messages posted) services.msc didn't work for me, Im not hiding the taskbar icon, the speakers are turned on, it shows the there is no active mixer. I've tried installing updates, safe mode uninstall in device manager of the soundcard drivers, I've uninstalled just the gameport and scanned. My PC runs on XP Sound Blaster 512 On Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 7:08 pm, Mycall wrote: >I have a question about What >do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 2:29 pm Posted by Mark (1 messages posted) Volume Icon Is Not Displayed in the Notification Area, and You Receive an Error Message When You Try to Add It View products that this article applies to. Article ID : 319095 Last Review : January 23, 2004 Revision : 1.0 This article was previously published under Q319095 SYMPTOMS On a Windows XP-based computer, you may experience one or both of the following behaviors: • The Volume icon is no longer displayed in the notification area at the far right of the taskbar. • When you try to add the volume control icon to the notification area (in the Sounds and Audio Devices utility in Control Panel, click to select the Place volume icon in the taskbar check box on the Volume tab), you receive the following error message: Windows cannot display the volume control on the taskbar because the Volume Control program has not been installed. To install it use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. As a result, you cannot start the Volume Control program and adjust the volume and sound level settings of your computer. Back to the top CAUSE This behavior can occur if the Sndvol32.exe file is damaged or missing. Back to the top RESOLUTION To resolve this issue, extract a new copy of Sndvol32.exe from the Windows XP compact disc to the system_root\System32 folder on your computer's hard disk. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into your computer's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. Press and hold down the SHIFT key as you insert the CD-ROM to prevent it from starting automatically. 2. Click Start, and then click Run. 3. In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK. 4. Type the following lines at the command prompt, pressing ENTER after each line, where CD-ROM drive is the drive letter of the computer's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive that contains the Windows XP CD-ROM, and system_root is the path and folder name where the Windows system files are located (generally C:\Windows): CD-ROM drive: cd i386 expand sndvol32.ex_ system_root\system32\sndvol32.exe Note that there is a space between "ex_" and "system_root" in this command. For example, if your computer's CD-ROM drive is drive E, and the folder that contains the Windows system files is C:\Windows, type the following lines at the command prompt (pressing ENTER after each line): e: cd i386 expand sndvol32.ex_ c:\windows\system32\sndvol32.exe 5. Type exit to quit the command prompt. 6. Verify that you can start Volume Control and that the Volume icon is displayed in the notification area (if you selected this option). Back to the top MORE INFORMATION By default, the Volume icon is not displayed in the notification area in Windows XP. For additional information about how to display the volume control icon in the notification area, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 279435 (http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/279435/EN-US/) HOW TO: Display the Volume Icon in the Notification Area in Windows For additional information about icons that are displayed in the notification area, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 310578 (http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/310578/EN-US/) Windows System Tray Icons For additional information about how to troubleshoot sound problems, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 307918 (http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/307918/EN-US/) HOW TO: Resources for Troubleshooting Sound Problems in Windows XP Back to the top -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPLIES TO • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition • Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition Back to the top Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB319095 Back to the top On Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 8:53 pm, Matt wrote: >services.msc didn't work for me, Im not hiding the taskbar icon, the speakers are >turned on, it shows the >there is no active mixer. I've tried installing updates, safe mode uninstall in device >manager of the soundcard drivers, I've uninstalled just the gameport and scanned. >My PC runs on XP Sound Blaster 512 > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 12:24 am Posted by SSR_Magnum (1 messages posted) Ok that works but if you take one more step and select the Recovery Tab and in the 3 Drop-Downs change from "Take No Action" to "Restart the Service" then you won't have to keep repeating the action in the future when the problem reoccurs as windows will automatically take care of it for you. On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 4:35 pm Posted by Mark (1 messages posted) Seems that if you open the mixer as soon as it is available after boot it will work til you close it. Then is can't find it again. Hope someone can figure this out. Microsoft must have done an update that caused this. Also lost some functionality of my keyboard. Can't open Outlook from email button on keyboard. On Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 7:35 am, MrTeutonic wrote: > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, December 1, 2006 at 9:14 am Posted by harold (1 messages posted) Check device mgr - if all sound devices are working properly - go to start>control panel>admin tools>services - scroll down to Windows audio. Make sure it is set to Automatic and all dependant programs are enabled. Under the recovery tab select "restart service" for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd failures. Worked for me.... On Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 2:29 pm, Mark wrote: > >Volume Icon Is Not Displayed in the Notification Area, and You Receive an Error Message >When You Try to Add It >View products that this article applies to. >Article ID : 319095 >Last Review : January 23, 2004 >Revision : 1.0 >This article was previously published under Q319095 >SYMPTOMS [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, December 29, 2006 at 9:50 pm Posted by Denis Ryan (1 messages posted) That's the critical step, worked perfectly for me, thanks for pointing out something very obvious to me, I need to open my eyes more when things are staring right at me. Cheers Denis. On Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 12:24 am, SSR_Magnum wrote: >Ok that works but if you take one more step and select the Recovery Tab and in the >3 Drop-Downs change from "Take No Action" to "Restart the Service" then you won't >have to keep repeating the action in the future when the problem reoccurs as windows >will automatically take care of it for you. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, February 16, 2007 at 9:51 am Posted by João Brito (1 messages posted) Oh, thank you very much. I use a software to record my phone calls and whenever I use it, the mixer locks, but this trick fixed it. Thanks again, João (Brasil) On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Monday, February 19, 2007 at 12:20 pm Posted by Graham Cooke (1 messages posted) The man is a genius and deserves my ever lasting thanks. On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Solution - Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 5:26 pm Posted by Joseph Frost (1 messages posted) The above solution worked for me and most other people with this problem...THANKS! (Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services>Windows Audio>Start Service (Restart if already Started) On Friday, December 1, 2006 at 9:14 am, harold wrote: >Check device mgr - if all sound devices are working properly - go to start>control >panel>admin tools>services - scroll down to Windows audio. Make sure it is set to >Automatic and all dependant programs are enabled. > >Under the recovery tab select "restart service" for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd failures. > >Worked for me.... > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Solution - Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 3:22 am Posted by dalavai (2 messages posted) Hi,Many thanks,it worked for me as well.I have enabled the options under Recovery Tab as well.Cheers,Avinash On Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 5:26 pm, Joseph Frost wrote: >The above solution worked for me and most other people with this problem...THANKS! >(Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services>Windows Audio>Start Service (Restart >if already Started) > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Solution - Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Monday, March 12, 2007 at 12:18 pm Posted by dalavai (2 messages posted) Hi,It doesn't work when i restart my laptop.I need to restart the services manually everytime to get audio.Any clues?Thansk in advance !!!Dalavai [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 4:57 am Posted by willy (1 messages posted) thank you very very much !!!!!!!!!! this worked for me, 3 cheers to an internet friend, thank you again, willy, new york city On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 10:44 am Posted by Raghavender (1 messages posted) Thanks a lot..my problem is solved now..it worked really well..when i followed the above steps.. On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 4:43 pm Posted by mike smith (1 messages posted) There are no active mixer devices available. Go to the RUN menu and type "services.msc", scroll down to "Windows Audio" and make sure it's running and/or set to "automatic". On Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 7:08 pm, Mycall wrote: >I have a question about What >do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 6:48 pm Posted by Nancy (1 messages posted) Thank you Thank you! Your instructions were the only thing I could find that worked. You probably won't get this but...thanks. On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 8:07 am Posted by Maddy (1 messages posted) Mike, Wherever you are, THANK YOU!!! I had been having this problem for the past two weeks. Don't know what is stopping this particular service, but have been restarting my system to get it to clear up. I will try to note what I was doing when (if) this problem arises again. On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 4:43 pm, mike smith wrote: > >There are no active mixer devices available. > >Go to the RUN menu and type "services.msc", scroll down to "Windows Audio" and make >sure it's running and/or set to "automatic". > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 11:58 am Posted by jbone10299 (1 messages posted) Not sure if anyone has solved this already, but another quick and temporary fix was to go to Administrative Tools Panel, click Services, Find Windows Audio from the services list and start it. Not a permanent solution but were getting close :) On Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 4:35 pm, Mark wrote: >Seems that if you open the mixer as soon as it is available after boot it will work >til you close it. Then is can't find it again. Hope someone can figure this out. > >Microsoft must have done an update that caused this. > >Also lost some functionality of my keyboard. Can't open Outlook from email button >on keyboard. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (my fix) Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 9:52 pm Posted by pej r (1 messages posted) I have a HP a250n with Windows XP Home and SP2. two weeks ago I had to do a system recovery and somehow I lost all my audio. Everything would be grayed out under Sound and Audio Devices, it would say No Audio Devices, and of course I would get the no mixer devices error. I have a Realtek AC97 driver which said it was enabled but not functioning properly. And under my Services my Windows Audio would be set to automatic and Started. after uninstalling it multiple times from the device manager and reinstalling it, I managed it to say Enabled but Not Started. Still no audio with everything grayed out. Just when I was about to give up, I solved it -:) here is how: 1- open device manager 2- click sound and video game controls 3- my reinstalled audio driver realtec ac97 was there among some audio and video codec and legacy drivers. 4- click on View tab and check "show hidden devices" 5- I saw about 15 other audio devices there some repeated three times. Uninstall all of these even the ones that say Microsoft Kernel ... 6- after I uninstalling all of them Windows started reinstalling these itself, I just had to click ok for the digital signature. OH MY GOD, I heard a beep from my speakers. 7- I went to the Sounds and Audio devices and no more grayed out sections, everything was back to normal. I have audio again. On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 8:07 am, Maddy wrote: >Mike, > >Wherever you are, THANK YOU!!! I had been having this problem for the past two weeks. >Don't know what is stopping this particular service, but have been restarting my >system to get it to clear up. I will try to note what I was doing when (if) this >problem arises again. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix Monday, June 4, 2007 at 2:27 am Posted by Katy Howland (1 messages posted) Thank you so much for this fix! This problem was driving me mad... On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 4:43 pm, mike smith wrote: > >There are no active mixer devices available. > >Go to the RUN menu and type "services.msc", scroll down to "Windows Audio" and make >sure it's running and/or set to "automatic". > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 8:18 pm Posted by Paul Blake (1 messages posted) This fix is still temporary though? Starting the service only works until shutdown, then have to do the same process next startup. On Monday, June 4, 2007 at 2:27 am, Katy Howland wrote: >Thank you so much for this fix! This problem was driving me mad... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:34 am Posted by Jake Jackson (1 messages posted) Okay, so what do you do when everything on this list fails you? Still getting no mixers on the volume control. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 7:23 pm Posted by Arunasish (3 messages posted) I have the same problem as Jack. I have tried everything on the web page and still get the same error message.I do not have the volume icon in the task bar below as well. On Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:34 am, Jake Jackson wrote: >Okay, so what do you do when everything on this list fails you? > >Still getting no mixers on the volume control. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix Monday, June 25, 2007 at 10:24 am Posted by Arunasish (3 messages posted) I have been able to find out the reasons behind the problem.The audio drivers installed are not the correct drivers that has been installed. The most likely reason for that is a reinstall of the Operating System. In the event it would not indicate that the drivers are incompatible. All I did was install the compatible audio drivers and it immediately solved the problem. For the correct drivers one should go to the computer manufacturers website and key in the Desktop or Laptop product code in their support site where you can download the relevant drivers. Jake you should try this and I am sure it would work.Thanks, Arunasish [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 8:28 am Posted by FrankO (1 messages posted) Hi, thanks for this. Had a problem ages ago which forced me to re-install windows xp and the vol control has been missing since then. Thanks to your tip i now have control back, and the missing icon is now back.... gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Thanks again ! On Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 2:29 pm, Mark wrote: > >Volume Icon Is Not Displayed in the Notification Area, and You Receive an Error Message >When You Try to Add It >View products that this article applies to. >Article ID : 319095 >Last Review : January 23, 2004 >Revision : 1.0 >This article was previously published under Q319095 >SYMPTOMS [Reply or follow-up to this message] THIS FIXES no active mixer devices!!!!!!! Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 2:57 pm Posted by Erica (1 messages posted) I just fixed the problem you are having. Hopefully I can explain well enough to help you. This means u have no sound card installed so I will help you as much as I can to install the proper devices. You will need the SYSTEM RESTORE DISC that comes with ur computer/laptop. It will have like applications, drivers, & Operating System, etc. 1) click START>CONTROL PANEL> (make sure u switch to classic view in upper left hand of control panel) SYSTEM> HARDWARE>DEVICE MANAGER **scroll and see if any icons have yellow question marks on them.. if they do, delete/unistall them.** (((( U need to know who ur MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURER is. Most likely u have had to restore ur system recently and what has happened is that ur system was restored without ur Motherboard chipsets. U can usually get these drivers and devices from the Manufacturer's website. ( Mine was AMD and they had a full list and I found the appropriate one, downloaded it and VIOLA!))) OK, Now that U have downloaded the appropriate drivers from ur MOTHERBOARD MANUFAC. WEBSITE, install it. ~NOW, put ur SYSTEM RESTORE DISC in and restart ur computer ... when u get back to ur desktop, after a minute or so It should pop up that NEW HARDWARE has been FOUND. ( If it doesn't go to START>CONTROL PANEL>in catagory view, click PRINTERS AND OTHER HARDWARE>ADD HARDWARE If u did it right, it should install the appropriate drivers. BEST OF LUCK... ALSO, a great live chat at http://www.driverguide.com has people online at all hours willing to help you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 10:02 am Posted by Clark Ho (1 messages posted) THank you so so so so much!!!You are a saviour!!! On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 3:20 pm Posted by misty (1 messages posted) Unfortunately, the solution doesn't apply to my case. The Windows Audio Status is "Started" with "Automatic" Startup Type. I've noticed that Stop, Start, Pause, Resume and Restart are disabled. On Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 10:02 am, Clark Ho wrote: > >THank you so so so so much!!!You are a saviour!!! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 1:08 pm Posted by raj (1 messages posted) my pc dose not play a sound as every thing is fit speakers boofers and cable wires also and when i click volume control then it says there are no active mixer drivers and install it. mr.aishwarya upadhyaya from lucknow date 30/02/08 time:2:42pm. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 3:03 am Posted by nikita (28 messages posted) Hi! Thnkx for posting this Mixer Device / Device ID has been used out of range etc. kinda error resolution. I had to regularly restart the computer to play MIDI / WMA files in Winamp although the other files Mp3 etc. played just fine. So, the trick of Services > Start Windows Audio Device (set to automatic) service, jst worked nice and I hope this wont happen again.. I dont know but randomly the Sound Device failed to work....Does there any good reason for that. Any Ways! Thanks for the Resolution posted here. NIKITA [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: THIS FIXES no active mixer devices!!!!!!! Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 8:52 am Posted by Jimmy (1 messages posted) http://www.pchell.com/support/no_active_mixer_devices_available.shtml On Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 2:57 pm, Erica wrote: > >I just fixed the problem you are having. Hopefully I can explain well enough to >help you. This means u have no sound card installed so I will help you as much as >I can to install the proper devices. > >You will need the SYSTEM RESTORE DISC that comes with ur computer/laptop. It will >have like applications, drivers, & Operating System, etc. > >1) click START>CONTROL PANEL> (make sure u switch to classic view in upper left >hand of control panel) SYSTEM> HARDWARE>DEVICE MANAGER >**scroll and see if any icons have yellow question marks on them.. if they do, delete/unistall >them.** > >(((( U need to know who ur MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURER is. Most likely u have had to >restore ur system recently and what has happened is that ur system was restored without >ur Motherboard chipsets. U can usually get these drivers and devices from the Manufacturer's >website. ( Mine was AMD and they had a full list and I found the appropriate one, >downloaded it and VIOLA!))) > >OK, Now that U have downloaded the appropriate drivers from ur MOTHERBOARD MANUFAC. >WEBSITE, install it. > >~NOW, put ur SYSTEM RESTORE DISC in and restart ur computer ... when u get back to >ur desktop, after a minute or so It should pop up that NEW HARDWARE has been FOUND. > >( If it doesn't go to START>CONTROL PANEL>in catagory view, click PRINTERS AND OTHER >HARDWARE>ADD HARDWARE > >If u did it right, it should install the appropriate drivers. BEST OF LUCK... > >ALSO, a great live chat at http://www.driverguide.com has people online at all hours >willing to help you. http://www.pchell.com/support/no_active_mixer_devices_available.shtml [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: i need help with my sound it would grateful if someone would be kind to help me out Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:57 am Posted by jamal (1 messages posted) i hear no sound from my computer when ever i go on entertainment then volume control is says stuff about there is no sound mixer device it tells me to go on control panel and add a new hardware i have no clue on what to do when i click add new hardware so please if someone knows something i need to do help me out here it will be well apprected i was in this sort of problem for 5 mounths i didn't know what to do but i came on this website and there is very intellegent people that could help me. AND TRUST ME I TRYED GOING ON RUN AND TYPE SERVICE SOMETHING THEN WINDOW AUDIO MINE WAS ALREADY TURNED ON BUT THE PROBLEM - is telling me to add new hardware but i dont have a clue on which one to add by jamal email me on : Mo_mamsz@hotmail.com thank you On Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 7:35 am, MrTeutonic wrote: > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 5:38 am Posted by Ninad Amkar (1 messages posted) It just worked for me. I had tried several things before. Thanks On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. > But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. > >Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. > >A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click >and click on Properties. > >Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service >status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and >-- voila! -- it worked.) > >Hope this works for you, too. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 12:07 am Posted by pax (1 messages posted) Wow... its still useful after so many years of the post. Thanx :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum