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No Audio Device
Hey Brad:
Thanks for the thoughts, but it clearly is an XP issue. ( I checked anyway, of course g ) The sound sub system is not allowing me to modify it. Nor is it acknowledging what Device Manager says is installed properly. ( for the built in card one has no choices in the way of speakers.. and as there is no sound device there is no 'mute' button to uncheck ) Hopefully somebody from MS will take a peek in this forum and have a thought. Thanks anyway Paul |
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Give this a try. Go into Windows Media Player. From the Tools menu select
Options, then select the Devices tab. Double-click on speakers. You get a chance there to select audio device. Look for your sound device there. Maybe this will help. I was able to do this to get WMP to recognize my sound card recently. Good Luck. "Paul T." wrote in message ... Hi. I've been running XP Pro for half a year here at home. It has been great, coming close to never crashing. Two weeks ago it did lock up requiring a hard boot. Once back up, I had lost sound. I removed the drivers and software ( even called Creative for their 100% Grade A approved method to do this ), then installed them again: no go. Since then I've tried removing and installing that Audigy card, even the ATI All In Wonder card as it has sound capabilities/drivers.. I have also removed all traces of the Audigy card and re- enabled the MB's built in sound card. In each case Device Manager states the sound card in question is functioning properly. But when you open the 'Sounds and Audio Devices' applet in control panel you are informed that there is no audio device. For the Audio tab therein the default devices say .. No Playback Device, No Recording Device, etc and are grayed out thus preventing my choosing the sound card as the device. Today I put another HD in and installed XP Pro fresh. The sound card built into the MB works fine. Thus I know the hardware is ok. And I know the drivers are .... as ok as windows drivers can be g. My question is how to I convince XP that it has a sound card? I did do a Google search, and found that many have had this exact problem with various types of PC's or components... however only XP and Server 2003 Beta users have reported the problem. A few times going to Services and enabling Windows Audio has helped ( Apparently MS moved the sound sub-system to a Service with the release of XP ?? ) however on my system that service is going already, and the choice to STOP the service is grayed out. I would really prefer not having to install XP again, especially as this will probably occur again. I did run SFC but that did not help. Any thoughts on how to remove and re-install the XP sound system? Many Thanks Paul |
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No Audio Device
Thanks Barry. Tried that, including updating to the
latest rev of Media Player, but no go. It simply shows two CD players... no speakers, no sound device. Guess I will have to bite the bullet and pay for a support call to Microsoft. Thanks again Paul *********************************** -----Original Message----- Give this a try. Go into Windows Media Player. From the Tools menu select Options, then select the Devices tab. Double-click on speakers. You get a chance there to select audio device. Look for your sound device there. Maybe this will help. I was able to do this to get WMP to recognize my sound card recently. Good Luck. "Paul T." wrote in message ... Hi. I've been running XP Pro for half a year here at home. It has been great, coming close to never crashing. Two weeks ago it did lock up requiring a hard boot. Once back up, I had lost sound. I removed the drivers and software ( even called Creative for their 100% Grade A approved method to do this ), then installed them again: no go. Since then I've tried removing and installing that Audigy card, even the ATI All In Wonder card as it has sound capabilities/drivers.. I have also removed all traces of the Audigy card and re- enabled the MB's built in sound card. In each case Device Manager states the sound card in question is functioning properly. But when you open the 'Sounds and Audio Devices' applet in control panel you are informed that there is no audio device. For the Audio tab therein the default devices say .. No Playback Device, No Recording Device, etc and are grayed out thus preventing my choosing the sound card as the device. Today I put another HD in and installed XP Pro fresh. The sound card built into the MB works fine. Thus I know the hardware is ok. And I know the drivers are .... as ok as windows drivers can be g. My question is how to I convince XP that it has a sound card? I did do a Google search, and found that many have had this exact problem with various types of PC's or components... however only XP and Server 2003 Beta users have reported the problem. A few times going to Services and enabling Windows Audio has helped ( Apparently MS moved the sound sub-system to a Service with the release of XP ?? ) however on my system that service is going already, and the choice to STOP the service is grayed out. I would really prefer not having to install XP again, especially as this will probably occur again. I did run SFC but that did not help. Any thoughts on how to remove and re-install the XP sound system? Many Thanks Paul . |
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