NO default Audio, Win XP

My audio stopped working about two weeks ago. I had been using a Turtle Beach sound card for many years. When I booted up the computer, I noticed the on board speaker was “beeping” for windows events.

I went into the Sounds and Audio Device program and could not select a device.

Since then, I’ve completely removed the Turtle Beach sound card (software and PCI card). I’ve also uninstalled and re-installed the SoundMax application.

I do not get any conflicts in device manager, and the devices I’ve looked at all say they are functioning correctly. I still can not go into the Sounds and Audio Device program and could select a device.

When I start SoundMax, I get “Digital output taken by another device”.

Any ideas where / what I might try to look at next?

Thanks.

 

Thanks for looking into this.

I do not have the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sensaura\Speaker. Under Sensaura I just have Enviroment and Virtual Ear.

As I had both SoundMAX and the PCI Card effected, is there any OS drivers or processes I can verify are working?

Thanks.

 

Yes, set to Auto and running.

 

SoundMAX, Drivers enabled but won't start

I've been troubleshooting the all too common audio problem. I’ve included my original post below.

What I decided to do was go into Safe Mode and un-installed SoundMAX. I then re-installed SoundMAX, also in Safe Mode.

Now I get “Drivers enabled but has not been started”. There are no errors or conflicts in Device Manager and the Windows Service is started.

The only other message I get is “There are no active mixers” when I use SoundMAX’s Volume dialog.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

 

Re: SoundMAX, Drivers enabled but won't start

Link to original thread:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=190361

It's general forum policy to continue the first thread until the problem is solved, and just bad etiquette to start a new thread for the same problem, esp with only a day or two between the two threads. I understand the threads are in different forums, but that doesn't matter. If you want the original thread moved, contact an admin or moderator.
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Patience my friend.

Besides, it looks like a fix was found in post #2 on your original thread. Did you follow the steps listed in post #2?

Hopefully a forum admin/mod will see the two threads and combine them or delete this one and keep the original thread going.

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