No Playback Devices !

UncleGus · March 28th, 2003, 11:16 AM

That is what is shown in the Sounds and Multimedia\Audio Tab, though on the Device Tab and in Device Manager the Sound card is shown with no problems.

Only recent changes were a motherboard upgrade and DX9. I don't think it is hardware related as I removed the sound card and activated the AC97 onboard sound in the BIOS and it would not work either.

WinME
MSI K7T Turbo2
Creative Labs SbPCI

Any Ideas?

Uncle Gus

CubKid · March 28th, 2003, 05:16 PM

you try re-installing the cards drivers? Could be a shot in the dark, but its worth a try.

Shawn711 · March 28th, 2003, 09:05 PM

Could always try removing them from the device manager, and rebooting, allowing Windows to redetect them and reinstall the drivers........I've seen that fix video card problems before..drivers got corrupted.........

Shawn

Urban_Squrill · March 28th, 2003, 09:11 PM

Waht os u ruiin?
Take the card out boot.
shutdown reinstall card.

UncleGus · March 29th, 2003, 03:04 AM

Sorry to take so long to reply. Yes I did try removing the card and rebooting and reinstalling. Also replaced card with my kids SbPCI card to no avail. Then I took out the card removing all the drivers and enabling the onboard sound in CMOS and still Device Manager shows that ound device as no problems, no conflicts and in the sound and multi control panel applet device tab it shows: Audio device Audio device for VIA PCI Audio Controller with Use audio features on this device selected on properties window. But yet on the Audio tab NO PLAYBACK DEVICE.

I believe I have it narrowed down to a problem using WDM drivers because I updated the drivers for the onboard sound with the Win9x drivers set from my Motherboard drivers cd instead of the ME set. It gave me the standard (drivers were not specifically written for this device message but after reboot speaker icon in tray and sound is now available. The only problem is that some programs don't like the viafm.drv that is loaded with the Win9x drivers. When I run my HpCD (Roxio) program it hard freezes needing the reset button to be hit to restart.

Anyone have any ideas on WDM fixes or workarounds?

UncleGus

Brainchild · March 29th, 2003, 03:18 AM

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=69

Might see if one of these are a better match for your system

UncleGus · March 29th, 2003, 04:38 AM

Thanks Brainchild I will check it out right now.

U.G

Just checked and it looks like the same version that I updated thw wdm drivers to before reverting to vxd and drv units from Win9x set. Though I did dl the zip file so I can check it for any hidden happiness.

U.G.

UncleGus · March 30th, 2003, 06:32 AM

Update:

Well I know now that the problem definately is not a sound hardware problem. I clean installed ME on a 40g hd that I had and slaved the other hd on the same machine. I put the SoundBlaster PCI card back in prior to the setup and it was picked up perfectly with the WDM drivers. My audio problems were gone. I then changed the boot sequence in cmos settings to boot from harddisk1 first, harddisk0 second and when it booted into ME on the old drive sound was gone. The only things changed recently on the old drive were: DX9 runtimes and the motherboard swap.

I believe that when I booted the new mb the first time I did so in safe mode so I could clear all of the devices out of Device Manager for fresh detection. I don't recall seeing all of the Microsoft kernel sound drivers loaded. I may have gotten to happy killing everything in the DM CPL. So a word to the wise. It would probably be a good idea to only delete the hardware specific entries in Device Manager and leave the others there. The worst that could happen is a possible double up here or there, and that is easy enough to take care of after the fact.

Ya learn something everyday!

UncleGus