Soundcards won't work in XP, user frustrated

[ThomasIsTired]

Ok. So I installed Windows XP and everything was fine.
After the next boot I guess my soundcard, cd-rom and cd-
rw didn't work. I re-installed the cd-rom/cd-rw drivers
and they worked fine. I did the same on the soundcard and
it didn't work. I found new drivers and it didn't work.
In the hardware specs it says that the device is working
properly. Now, despite that the sounds and audio devices
thing says that I have no audio device. I even bought a
new soundcard and it has the same problem, so it's not
the soundcard. It was working fine until I got Xp and
then it went wonky. Please, any ideas?

[Nick Burns]

What are your system spec's..?


"ThomasIsTired" > wrote in message
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> Ok. So I installed Windows XP and everything was fine.
> After the next boot I guess my soundcard, cd-rom and cd-
> rw didn't work. I re-installed the cd-rom/cd-rw drivers
> and they worked fine. I did the same on the soundcard and
> it didn't work. I found new drivers and it didn't work.
> In the hardware specs it says that the device is working
> properly. Now, despite that the sounds and audio devices
> thing says that I have no audio device. I even bought a
> new soundcard and it has the same problem, so it's not
> the soundcard. It was working fine until I got Xp and
> then it went wonky. Please, any ideas?

[ThomasIsTired]

Celeron 1.8, 256 Mhz, 30 gb, soundcard is soundblaster
PCI 64. I forgot to note that I get an error that
says "device has been enabled but has not been started"
now how do you go about starting it? I looked in
administrative options but I couldn't get anywhere.
>-----Original Message-----
>What are your system spec's..?
>
>
>"ThomasIsTired" > wrote in
message
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>> Ok. So I installed Windows XP and everything was fine.
>> After the next boot I guess my soundcard, cd-rom and
cd-
>> rw didn't work. I re-installed the cd-rom/cd-rw drivers
>> and they worked fine. I did the same on the soundcard
and
>> it didn't work. I found new drivers and it didn't work.
>> In the hardware specs it says that the device is
working
>> properly. Now, despite that the sounds and audio
devices
>> thing says that I have no audio device. I even bought a
>> new soundcard and it has the same problem, so it's not
>> the soundcard. It was working fine until I got Xp and
>> then it went wonky. Please, any ideas?
>
>
>.
>

[Nick Burns]

Had you tried uninstalling all the sound drivers then reboot for windows to
redetect and reinstall fresh sound drivers.



"ThomasIsTired" > wrote in message
...
> Ok. So I installed Windows XP and everything was fine.
> After the next boot I guess my soundcard, cd-rom and cd-
> rw didn't work. I re-installed the cd-rom/cd-rw drivers
> and they worked fine. I did the same on the soundcard and
> it didn't work. I found new drivers and it didn't work.
> In the hardware specs it says that the device is working
> properly. Now, despite that the sounds and audio devices
> thing says that I have no audio device. I even bought a
> new soundcard and it has the same problem, so it's not
> the soundcard. It was working fine until I got Xp and
> then it went wonky. Please, any ideas?

This probability isn't your problem but it will only take
2 mins. to check out.See if the service "Windows audio"
is enabled go to control panel then admin tools click on
services,Windows audio should be set to automatic if not
right click on it and select properties you can enabled
it from here Good luck.


>-----Original Message-----
>Celeron 1.8, 256 Mhz, 30 gb, soundcard is soundblaster
>PCI 64. I forgot to note that I get an error that
>says "device has been enabled but has not been started"
>now how do you go about starting it? I looked in
>administrative options but I couldn't get anywhere.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>What are your system spec's..?
>>
>>
>>"ThomasIsTired" > wrote in
>message
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>>> Ok. So I installed Windows XP and everything was fine.
>>> After the next boot I guess my soundcard, cd-rom and
>cd-
>>> rw didn't work. I re-installed the cd-rom/cd-rw
drivers
>>> and they worked fine. I did the same on the soundcard
>and
>>> it didn't work. I found new drivers and it didn't
work.
>>> In the hardware specs it says that the device is
>working
>>> properly. Now, despite that the sounds and audio
>devices
>>> thing says that I have no audio device. I even bought
a
>>> new soundcard and it has the same problem, so it's not
>>> the soundcard. It was working fine until I got Xp and
>>> then it went wonky. Please, any ideas?
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

Yes, but that didn't work either.
>-----Original Message-----
>Had you tried uninstalling all the sound drivers then
reboot for windows to
>redetect and reinstall fresh sound drivers.
>
>
>
>"ThomasIsTired" > wrote in
message
...
>> Ok. So I installed Windows XP and everything was fine.
>> After the next boot I guess my soundcard, cd-rom and
cd-
>> rw didn't work. I re-installed the cd-rom/cd-rw drivers
>> and they worked fine. I did the same on the soundcard
and
>> it didn't work. I found new drivers and it didn't work.
>> In the hardware specs it says that the device is
working
>> properly. Now, despite that the sounds and audio
devices
>> thing says that I have no audio device. I even bought a
>> new soundcard and it has the same problem, so it's not
>> the soundcard. It was working fine until I got Xp and
>> then it went wonky. Please, any ideas?
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