Thread: No Audio Device!!

Are all the volume switches turned up; Master, Wave, CD, Line?

Right click the speaker icon in the system tray and click 'adjust audio properties'. The click the 'audio tab', and make sure your sound card is listed as the preffered device

NB: Modern PCI devices can share the same IRQ, so I don't think this is your problem

I'm not able to get to the volume control because it says that there is no mixer. In the Sounds and audio devices their is no device shown butin the hardware part it shows that the sound card is there and working properly. What could I do to solve this problem?

Right I have both but because the onboard stoped working I thought that it could be not working so I tried a sound card. I uninstalled the onboard driver and also in bios disabled the onboard card to try the new Audio card. Both have the same problem of working properly but nothing shows on the Sounds and audio devices. Thanks for responding. I have no clue what to try next. Please help.

I'm thinking that it could be something with the registries because when i was looking around on the windows support their were alot of problems in which the forums said to check a regestry key. I didn't find any problem simmilar to mine but did look around in the regestry. Does anyone know of a place where it explains more about the regestry keys and how to fix them?
Thanks for replying and also I already tried many time from different internet sites to re-install the driver. Nothing worked. Please help

PS. I don't really want to re-install Windows as you know that will cause more problems than solve.

My computer is working fine, no problems. At this moment i'm using the sound card not the onboard audio card. Both have the same problem though. The Onboard model is A/C 97 sound card for the PC Chips M848A v2.1 Motherboard. The one I'm using now is a Prowler 4.1 DSP MadDog 8738. I've used drivers from all over the place; from the manufacture, from windows, from the motherboard site...Nothing works. I uninstall the drivres from both the Device manager and the add remove programs because sometimes the driver comes together with a program so I get ride of both through the add/remove programs or if not through the Device Manager. The Adaptec Card is a video card that captures video coming from other sources ie. vcr/DVD/TV. I was using this card when everything went crazy. It was a Adaptec AVC-2010 PCI card. Thanks for replying. Hope to hear your plan.

Sorry, I forgot to ask you:

Which sound card is your preffered device? Which one do you want to use at the end of the day?

Really It doesn't matter to me. I think using the onboard card would be better because I could return the other card. I'm thinking though that fixxing the problem will let both cards work. Thanks for repying.

Please follow this exactly to insure a reliable removal, installation and configuration of your computer!

You will need to download and install CCleaner available at www.ccleaner.com. Just install the program for now, don't run it yet!

Step 1: Uninstallation and removal of Adaptec Card.
The first step is to remove the Adaptec card. You should do this via the add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Remove any referring drivers and software. Do not remove the drivers from Device Manager unless there is no uninstall in the add/remove box.

After the uninstallation is complete, shut down your computer and remove the card from the PCI slot.

Reboot your computer and browse to the Program Files folder. Delete the Adaptec folder (if present) and any refering folder for that card.

Now you need to enter the registry to remove any obsolete entries. Click Start > Run > Type regedit > press enter.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERS > SOFTWARE > Remove anything refering to Adaptec PCI card

Next go HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Once again, remove the adaptec folder (if present) or anything refering to your card

Go to HKEY_USERS > S-1-5-21-910899857-1996886089-926709054-1554 (NORMALLY SECOND FROM LAST KEY) > SOFTWARE > Once again, remove the adaptec folder (if present) or anything refering to your card

Close the registry editor.

Open up CCleaner and click registry cleaner on the left hand side. Run the scan and remove all the errors it finds.


Step 2: Remove the PCI Sound Card
You should do exactly what you did in Step 1:

-Remove all software and drivers from the add/remove programs applet refering to your sound card
-Restart your computer and remove the sound card from the PCI slot
-Reboot your computer and remove the Prowler folder (if present) and all folders in Program Files which refer to your device (Prowler 4.1 DSP MadDog 8738)
-Enter the registry and follow the same structure as before
-Run CCleaner and run the registry cleaner.

Step 3: Removing and reinstalling the onboard AC'97

You need to restart you computer and enter the CMOS setup. Make sure your onboard sound card is enabled, then boot into Windows.
Windows might say 'new hardware detected'. Let Windows install it own drivers and reboot if nescassary.

Let me know if this works without your adaptec card. If it does work, then we can tackle your Adaptec card next!

This is a great plan but i'm not sure where is CCleaners is? I was looking and their is nothing about the adaptec in the regestry or on the computer(that I can see) so I just need to get that CCleaners and finish your halp plan. Thanks.

Sorry nevermind I see the link. I didn't see it in my hotmail file.