System tray speaker icon is seldom not displayed

[ADM]

Hello.

I'm experiencing a strange behavoiur.

My PC, running XP-Pro, has a SoundMax audio device and seldom the speaker
icon disappears, but all the sounds and audio files can normally be heard.

The appropriate flag in the sound panel is set, even though the system icon
is still missing. By removing and setting this flag again, the volume icon
appears in the system tray. After many re-boots, it disappears again.

What could be wrong with the audio device?

Look forward to your advice.

Kind regards.

Antonio Di Meo

 

[SC Tom]

Hello.

I'm experiencing a strange behavoiur.

My PC, running XP-Pro, has a SoundMax audio device and seldom the speaker
icon disappears, but all the sounds and audio files can normally be heard.

The appropriate flag in the sound panel is set, even though the system
icon
is still missing. By removing and setting this flag again, the volume icon
appears in the system tray. After many re-boots, it disappears again.

What could be wrong with the audio device?

Look forward to your advice.

Kind regards.

Antonio Di Meo

Had SoundMax problems, too, before I finally dumped the on-board sound and
got another sound card.
Check in the SoundMax control panel and make sure all your settings there
are correct, too. Make sure your Windows sound and SoundMax speaker setups
are the same; i.e., if you have a 4-speaker system, make sure Windows is set
to 4 speakers and SoundMax is too. If you're running SoundMax's auto-detect
(I think that's the name of it), turn it off.
Good luck!

SC Tom

 

[ADM]

Dear SC Tom,

I can't find the SoundMax's auto-detect.

No need to mention that both Windows and SoundMax control panel's settings
are matching...

Please let me know where to find the SoundMax's autodetect.

Thanks in advance.

Antonio Di Meo

 

[SC Tom]

I don't have SoundMax installed any more, but IIRC, it's in the speaker
configuration in the SoundMax control panel. Try looking for ESP in it.
Sorry I can't be more specific than that. You might want to search for
updated driver files and see if that fixes the problem.

SC Tom

 

[ADM]

Dear SC Tom,

Unfortunately, the SoundMax panel I have, has a pulldown menu where one can
only manually set the speaker configuration: of course it's set on "stereo
speakers".

By the way, as long as the audio can be heard, I'll live with this issue
until I'll switch this peripheral off as you did.

The fact that no updated drivers are available either from ADI and Asus,
says it all.

Thanks for your time.

Kind regards.

Antonio Di Meo

 

[Paul]

Dear SC Tom,

Unfortunately, the SoundMax panel I have, has a pulldown menu where one can
only manually set the speaker configuration: of course it's set on "stereo
speakers".

By the way, as long as the audio can be heard, I'll live with this issue
until I'll switch this peripheral off as you did.

The fact that no updated drivers are available either from ADI and Asus,
says it all.

Thanks for your time.

Kind regards.

Antonio Di Meo

What is your Asus motherboard name ?

Paul

 

[ADM]

Dear Paul,

My Asus MoBo is a P4V8X-X.

Thanks for your interest.

Kind regards.

Antonio

 

[Paul]

Dear Paul,

My Asus MoBo is a P4V8X-X.

Thanks for your interest.

Kind regards.

Antonio

According to this

http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=3256

"PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3059&SUBSYS_80B01043&REV_60\3&267A616A&0&8D: Multimedia Audio Controller "

That is the entry in the INF file, needed to match your P4V8X-X motherboard.
In your existing Soundmax 3663 driver for your motherboard,
the smwdmVI3.inf file has that as the third entry, so it
seems to match.

This download is the nearest match I can find. I don't know
which Asus motherboard references this driver, and I had to
browse their FTP server. Current packet loss to Asia is
terrible right now, and this downloaded at about 10KB/sec.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/ad1888/AD1888_5150.zip

The SMAXWDM\W2K_XP\smwdmVI3.inf file in there contains

WDM_A188, pci\ven_1106&dev_3059&subsys_80B01043

Another link to the file, should be similar to this...

http://dlsvr.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/ad1888/AD1888_5150.zip

so if the FTP server isn't very fast, the dlsvr.asus.com scheme
does work well, when the Internet works well. But my tests
this morning on dlsvr, forced me to use ftp.asus.com.tw, just
so I could keep the download running with all the packet loss.
Firefox was actually timing out, to dlsvr.

And I have had the problem with Soundmax on my P4 board,
where autodetect stopped working (no more Wizard). It was
most annoying. It worked at one time, and then stopped some
time later. That was an install on Win2K and not WinXP.

Good luck,
Paul

 

[ADM]

Dear Paul,

I downloaded the new package (many thanks for that, it's much better than
the old one) but after 5 reboots the speaker icon disappeared as before, even
if sounds and misic where playable as usual; after another reboot it did
appear again.

Thanks for your help.

Antonio Di Meo

 

[ADM]

Dear Paul,

No chance to get the speaker icon always present at its place...

To make the matter worst, the new driver package doesn't work properly with
midi files: synk problems.

As though the speaker icon problem still exists I've installed the original
driver package again (at least I can work with midi files...). I'll keep
living with this (minor) issue.

Many thanks for your interest.

Antonio Di Meo