Sound drivers not starting

[SB]

When I install a sound card it show up in the device
manager but not in the "Sounds and Audio devices" section
of the control panel. In the Properties-General section
for the hardware in the device manager there is the
messge "Status: Driver is enabled but has not been
started". Any Ideas?

 

[dev]

/SB/ said:

When I install a sound card it show up in the device
manager but not in the "Sounds and Audio devices" section
of the control panel. In the Properties-General section
for the hardware in the device manager there is the
messge "Status: Driver is enabled but has not been
started". Any Ideas?

Click START|RUN and type "services.msc" <enter> (no quotes)

Scroll down to WINDOWS AUDIO and see if it has started, and is in
Automatic mode. If not, double-click on it, click the arrow to the right
of the Start Up box, and set it to Automatic.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help dev but it's stillnot working...

 

[Gui]

Check the Windows Audio service

-Brian

Thanks for the help dev but it's stillnot working...

 

[Dave]

Check the website of the manufacturer of your sound card
to make sure you have the newest driver designed
specifically for Windows XP.

I have often found that the drivers bundled with XP don't
work properly.