I've been fighting a problem for a while where I don't
have any audio on the PC. The audio just stopped working
at some point. I have verified that the hw is good (I
have a dual boot machine and can boot the other OS and
play sounds). I have also uninstalled and reinstalled
the card (Creative Audio) drivers with the latest updates.

The symptom is that the device shows that the driver is
enabled but if I try to play the system states "No audio
Device". I just found that under device manager/Creative
Audio/properties/Creative Audio/properties that the
Status states: Driver is enabled but has not been
started. This might be the root cause of the problem but
I can't find a way to start it.

I've obviously restarted the PC, reinstalled drivers w/
the latest updates, etc.

Any ideas?

I have the exact same problem with an Hp 9795c with the factory
Creative soundblaster card (es1373 chip) and WinXP Pro. I have tried 5
other sound cards in all the pci slots and I still have no sound. I
have also tried the microsoft website, nothing there related to this
problem. I am trying to correct this problem for a friend, this
problem began when he tried to install an old Intel Play webcam and
the related software. I've searched all over, with no hope but to
reinstall the OS. Help!!

"Greg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<075501c341eb$7cefdbc0$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I've been fighting a problem for a while where I don't
> have any audio on the PC. The audio just stopped working
> at some point. I have verified that the hw is good (I
> have a dual boot machine and can boot the other OS and
> play sounds). I have also uninstalled and reinstalled
> the card (Creative Audio) drivers with the latest updates.
>
> The symptom is that the device shows that the driver is
> enabled but if I try to play the system states "No audio
> Device". I just found that under device manager/Creative
> Audio/properties/Creative Audio/properties that the
> Status states: Driver is enabled but has not been
> started. This might be the root cause of the problem but
> I can't find a way to start it.
>
> I've obviously restarted the PC, reinstalled drivers w/
> the latest updates, etc.
>
> Any ideas?

[comstopinc]

I am also having the same problem with my system and its a Asus MotherBoard 64bit processor SoundMax is my onboard sound card its all enabled in the bios and it installes in the device manager but it wont let me turn on the sound. I also got this problem when I was playing around with an old Vivitar Web Cam.

I am having this problem too. I have a dual boot to ME or XP. One day my
system crashed and when I restored it I had no sound in either of the
operating systems. I did a full virus check and my computer came up clean.
I managed to get the mother board's sound card to work in ME, but not in XP.
XP recognizes the sound card, the drivers are installed but I can't get it
started.

"comstopinc" wrote:

>
> I am also having the same problem with my system and its a Asus
> MotherBoard 64bit processor SoundMax is my onboard sound card its all
> enabled in the bios and it installes in the device manager but it wont
> let me turn on the sound. I also got this problem when I was playing
> around with an old Vivitar Web Cam.
>
>
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> comstopincPosted from http://www.pcreview.co.uk/ newsgroup access
>
>

[dugawug]

i have this problem too...i run a dual boot, 2 XP Pro's SP2.
the ironic thing is one of my 2 OS's doesn't have this problem, only the other does!!!

not sure what is different, and i've tried several other forums with no luck!

anyone? please!

[josuepartida]

I had exactly the same problem as you, and after several hours and trying lots of possible solutions I tried something else and worked.
I tried:
- the "Plug and Play Enumerator"
- the boot.ini thing (remove /fastdetect)
- of course reinstalling drivers lots of times
- even reinstall my OS (win2000)

nothing worked. Then I remembered I heard once that Windows XP Service Pack 2 damaged the Audio in my dad's laptop, so I gave it a try and did the same thing. I had Win2000 with no Service Pack, then I installed Service Pack 4, restarted. Audio still didn't work, then I uninstalled my audio devices and restarted. This time I installed the drivers again and good news! my audio was back!

So I would say that after trying all that stuff that I tried before think about the service packs because they fix among other things, hardware compatibility issues.

Hope that helps.

-Josue

[theotterofdoom]

I tried everything you said before, reinstalling service packs and everything... My problem is I lost the audio once I installed some faulty video drivers, so I installed the regular ones and everything but my audio still does not work. I uninstalled and then reinstalled every driver known to man that is compatible with my computer, but my computer cannot even seem to register that I have an audio device as well as giving me the above error message of the "device driver is enabled but has not been started" no matter what I do. If anyone has any idea at all of how to fix this pleeeease get back to me, as It's been three days without working audio and FOUR days ago I ordered a brand new set of speakers for my computer.
Thanks,
theotterofdoom