When I check the status of my sound card in device manager, device manager says that it is working fine. However, when I open "sounds and audio devices" the volume tab says that there is no audio device.

When I try to play sound through winamp, I get the followin error:
Bad directsound driver. Please install proper drivers or select another device in configuration. Error code: 88780078

I thouht that reinstalling directx might solve the problem, but nothing has worked so far. I can supply the output of dxdiag if anyone thinks it might be useful.

Further, I have contacted the manufacturer of the card (creative labs) and they assure me that this is a windows problem.

Hi

See if the following link helps:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=88...=Google+Search

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"graf_ignotiev" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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| When I check the status of my sound card in device manager, device manager
says that it is working fine. However, when I open "sounds and audio
devices" the volume tab says that there is no audio device.
|
| When I try to play sound through winamp, I get the followin error:
| Bad directsound driver. Please install proper drivers or select another
device in configuration. Error code: 88780078
|
| I thouht that reinstalling directx might solve the problem, but nothing
has worked so far. I can supply the output of dxdiag if anyone thinks it
might be useful.
|
| Further, I have contacted the manufacturer of the card (creative labs) and
they assure me that this is a windows problem.

While these links had a lot of information to offer, none of them really gave viable solutions. Most of them discussed re-installing my sound card or updating my sound card drivers (which I've already tried). The one exception was the fellow who just re-installed windows XP. I am reluctant to try such drastic matters.

Is there any other alternative?

graf_ignotiev