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Solve : No audio devices detected by Sound Control? |
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Answer» FOLLOWING a Windows XP SP3 reinstall, , my machine is now without any audio adapter/multimedia audio controller. Each time I reboot it asks for smax4pnp.exe which is SoundMaxIntegrated Digital Audio that was my Audio device prior to reinstall also with SP3. It shows in a list I located but now do not KNOW where I found it. Sound Control does not detect any Audio devices and I am unable to get the SoundMax Digital Auidio without paying another $29.00. I think the original was Intel 8280 1FB ICH6-AC'79 Audio Controller [B-1] but am not sure. This was detected in another SCAN by EVEREST Home Edition. Please help. I was up til after 3AM this morn and now still trying to fix this problem. There is no sound icon in taskbar. I ran Restore and of course it only goes back to yesterday. Is ther anyway I can recover the previous restore prior to the new reinstall? That would solve this problem and I then would not have to change all my settigs. i do so regret doing this STUPID act. I now have many more problems than I did before. boo hoo banging head against a brick wall! Pat Forgot to add that my machine is Dell Demension 4700 2005 purchased new. Use IE 8 BrowserTravel to the Dell site... Enter the service tag # from the back of the machine... DLoad the appropiate sound drivers and install them.Thank you so much patio. I had tried last year to get an update on all my drivers and Dell wanted much $$$ so I did not believe they would replace any but YEP, they did and the Soung Max was one of them. I did not install all of them and realize that I do need to install the updated storage firmware ones. I have to do a double reboot now because it hangs on the floppy one. That is so minor compared to what lies ahead. I have 5 years of tweaking and UPDATING and removing unwanted files, etc. to do now to get machine back to the appearance and easy use that it was before. OOHHH if I had only checked here first for what I was looking for. That will be another post on another topic. I have toolbars and search bars on top and botton of screen and browser that have long ago been removed. I don't even know what they are called now, the bottom one has no ID at all and the Windows search is an anoyance. But thanks to you dear tecky, I have sound and a icon in task bar. Thank you, thank you , thankyou for your hard and diligent work. PatGlad you're fixed up amd Welcome Aboard !LOL After wrestling with Dell to get the drivers reinstalled I realized that I had the Resource CD so used it to install all the correct ones. I just finished editing the Autoruns and hope I don't have a problem when I reboot. Now I have this huge amount of invalid uninstallers to deal with in Add/Remove. Is there a tool that will do that for me?Quote from: pattybrew on December 09, 2010, 10:48:33 AM ...Now I have this huge amount of invalid uninstallers to deal with in Add/Remove. Is there a tool that will do that for me?CCleaner - http://www.piriform.com/ |
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