No Audio Device after every restart.

Hi i have went thru everything reinstalling drivers for my sound card, rolled back to previous drivers. I even disabled and tried to use onboard sound. But every time i restart my sound works for about 5-10 minutes and then the volume icon in the taskbar says no audio device. I went to device manager and it is showing my sound card with no exclamation mark or question mark. So its saying it has the right drivers and is detected. I have no clue what to do i have ran out of idea can someone please help me.

Specs:

OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)

Motherboard: Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N-SLI 1.XX
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS M2N SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 0201 09/07/2007


Processor: 3.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache


Drives:660.14 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
355.51 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H62N SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
LKFQ 34DIF0567 SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Generic USB CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
Generic USB MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
Generic USB SD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic USB SM Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
SAMSUNG HD161HJ SCSI Disk Device (160.04 GB) -- drive 0
WD 5000AAC External USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1

Controllers: Standard floppy disk controller
NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller (2x)
NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller

Multimedia: CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
USB Audio Device (2x)


If anything else is needed to help me please let me know i really would like to get this fixed. I am going crazy with no sound haha. Thanks alot

 

:wave Welcome to Major Geeks! :major
Did this problem just start, or has the audio been this way from day one?

 

It just started a few days ago. Ever since it started i have been working to fix it normally i can fix stuff on my own but i have never ran into this and im stuck.

 

can someone please help me, any suggestions would be great.

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I guess thats a no, assuming no one else has this issue.

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The sound works for 5 - 10 minutes then dies.
Take a screenshot of task manager when you fire up and the sound is working and print it out. After the sound dies, go into device manager again, have your list in your hand and see what new items are running. Post what processes are new.

 

Hi Cyric0...


Check that audio is set to start automatically....

Go to Start>> Run>> type in services.msc.

A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio>> Select and right click>>Select Properties. Under the 'General' tab Make sure that 'Startup' is set to automatic. Click Apply and okay...Now check the startup status under services..Make sure it says started. If not look to the left and click start service...