No Audio After XP Reinstall

[joedoe]

I have no audio since I reinstalled XP Home. When I go to Control Panel and
click "Sounds and Audio Devices" the 'volume' tab says "No Audio Device
Installed" and the rest of the page is grayed out so I cannot click the
"Place Volume ICON On the Taskbar" box.

I have a Dell 3100. I booted in Safe Mode, logged in as Administrator and
had the same results. I booted from the Dell "Resource CD", ran the
diagnostics and it says Audio CODECs and the Legacy Audio Driver are
working. When I run the audio tests, my speakers work just fine.

This is my third day trying to fix this -- I'm getting as buggy as my PC

Help Help Help

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem with my Toshiba Satellite. "No Audio Device"
and grayed out page. I have looked everywhere for a solution. I used to
restore but that doesn't work anymore. Looking forward to someone having the
solution.

 

[Dustin Cook]

I have no audio since I reinstalled XP Home. When I go to Control
Panel and click "Sounds and Audio Devices" the 'volume' tab says "No
Audio Device Installed" and the rest of the page is grayed out so I
cannot click the "Place Volume ICON On the Taskbar" box.

I have a Dell 3100. I booted in Safe Mode, logged in as Administrator
and had the same results. I booted from the Dell "Resource CD", ran
the diagnostics and it says Audio CODECs and the Legacy Audio Driver
are working. When I run the audio tests, my speakers work just fine.

This is my third day trying to fix this -- I'm getting as buggy as my
PC

Help Help Help

Hmm. Tried using the resource cd once windows is loaded to reload the sound
card driver? You may have to force hardware detection.


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[joedoe]

Thank you Brian, kmh, and Dustin. I tried all of your suggestions and
nothing has worked so far. Any more ideas greatfully accepted. I'll try
anything -- tomorrow.
good night.

 

[Dustin Cook]

Thank you Brian, kmh, and Dustin. I tried all of your suggestions and
nothing has worked so far. Any more ideas greatfully accepted. I'll
try anything -- tomorrow.
good night.

Hi Joe.

If you open device manager, does it show a soundcard as being present?
Possibly with a yellow exclamation point?

You mentioned you reinstalled windows... Did you repair install it or
install it fresh?


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[Dustin Cook]

I have no audio since I reinstalled XP Home. When I go to Control
Panel and click "Sounds and Audio Devices" the 'volume' tab says "No
Audio Device Installed" and the rest of the page is grayed out so I
cannot click the "Place Volume ICON On the Taskbar" box.

I have a Dell 3100. I booted in Safe Mode, logged in as Administrator
and had the same results. I booted from the Dell "Resource CD", ran
the diagnostics and it says Audio CODECs and the Legacy Audio Driver
are working. When I run the audio tests, my speakers work just fine.

Joe, I believe the problem is lack of drivers loaded for your soundcard.
Do you remember the name of the driver it said it used? Goto Device
manager, (right click my computer, click properties, click hardware tab,
click device manager.)

Under Sound, video and game controllers you should find your soundcard,
likely with a yellow exclamation point. Insert the resource cd, and exit
any program it opens for you. Click on the yellowed line, and select
update driver. Tell it you do not want to search Microsoft for the
driver, just local drives.

This is my third day trying to fix this -- I'm getting as buggy as my
PC

Did you do a repair install?


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Dustin Cook
Author of BugHunter - MalWare Removal Tool - v2.2c
email: (e-mail address removed)
web..: http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
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[jovstar58]

I have no audio since I reinstalled XP Home. When I go to Control Panel and
click "Sounds and Audio Devices" the 'volume' tab says "No Audio Device
Installed" and the rest of the page is grayed out so I cannot click the
"Place Volume ICON On the Taskbar" box.

I have a Dell 3100. I booted in Safe Mode, logged in as Administrator and
had the same results. I booted from the Dell "Resource CD", ran the
diagnostics and it says Audio CODECs and the Legacy Audio Driver are
working. When I run the audio tests, my speakers work just fine.

This is my third day trying to fix this -- I'm getting as buggy as my PC

Help Help Help

click the start button, then setting then control panel; then sounds,
speach, audio , there you will find opptions for the different things
you need. If that don't work click help.