No Sound After XP Upgrade(I've Tried 3 Different Sound Cards)

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I've just upgraded to XP from '98. My sound card now does not work (won’t play or capture). I have tried 3 different sound cards with the same results. They were the Hercules Muse 5.1, the Creative 16 PCI SoundBlaster, and the Creative PC 128. I presently have the Hercules in my PC. I've removed (clean swept) all of the old sound card drivers and reloaded all of the Windows XP, the sound card, Direct X and my mother board's latest upgrades, patches and drivers. I've changed card slots and when I did the PC recognized the change on start up. Windows Device Manager shows the card installed with no conflicts. When I check the properties for the audio card in Device Manager it says, "the driver is enabled but has not been started". Where it says "use audio features on this device" I have made sure that the audio device toggle is switched "on". In the Windows Control Panel/Sounds & Audio Devices, the Volume tab shows "no audio device", the audio tab shows "no playback device, no recording device, no MIDI playback device". The screens are grayed out. When I open the volume controls in Windows an error message pops up stating, "there are no active mixer devices available". Do you have any ideas on how to solve this problem?
 
Try here for the Hercules card
http://ts.hercules.com/eng/index.php?pg=view_files&gid=2&fid=22&pid=15&cid=1

Gary P said:
I've just upgraded to XP from '98. My sound card now does not work (won't
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play or capture). I have tried 3 different sound cards with the same
results. They were the Hercules Muse 5.1, the Creative 16 PCI SoundBlaster,
and the Creative PC 128. I presently have the Hercules in my PC. I've
removed (clean swept) all of the old sound card drivers and reloaded all of
the Windows XP, the sound card, Direct X and my mother board's latest
upgrades, patches and drivers. I've changed card slots and when I did the PC
recognized the change on start up. Windows Device Manager shows the card
installed with no conflicts. When I check the properties for the audio card
in Device Manager it says, "the driver is enabled but has not been started".
Where it says "use audio features on this device" I have made sure that the
audio device toggle is switched "on". In the Windows Control Panel/Sounds &
Audio Devices, the Volume tab shows "no audio device", the audio tab shows
"no playback device, no recording device, no MIDI playback device". The
screens are grayed out. When I open the volume controls in Windows an error
message pops up stating, "there are no active mixer devices available". Do
you have any ideas on how to solve this problem?
 
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