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denslylew
July 21st, 2006, 10:03 AM
Here's the situation...

My pc has two operating systems (XP Home Edition and XP Professional).

In the XP Home edition, there are no problems. The audio device is working fine. However, with the XP Professional I get no sound. When checking the Sounds and Audio Device properties in the Professional, it indicates that no audio device is detected.

Can someone help me out here.

Thx!!

Ferrit
July 21st, 2006, 10:12 AM
Is there possibly an entry called "Other Devices?"
What is the sound onboard or is it a PCI card?
You should be able to see in the XPHOME device manager exactly what the sound card is.

davethedope
July 21st, 2006, 10:59 AM
You have do download drivers from the PC maker.

davethedope
July 21st, 2006, 11:00 AM
I had this same problem, except I reinstalled my OS, and then had no audio device. Just get the latest drivers from the maker of your PC.

The_Silent_One_1
July 21st, 2006, 11:13 AM
Here's the situation...

My pc has two operating systems (XP Home Edition and XP Professional).

In the XP Home edition, there are no problems. The audio device is working fine. However, with the XP Professional I get no sound. When checking the Sounds and Audio Device properties in the Professional, it indicates that no audio device is detected.

Can someone help me out here.

Thx!!

If you can find the device driver (unsupported device, unknown multimedia device etc.) you can use the driver out of the funtioning operating system. Just browse to the working partition and you may have to rotate between the following:

(drive letter):\windows\inf (to get it running)

(everytime it can't find a file try the following) This works in most instances.

(drive letter):\windows\system
(drive letter):\windows\system32
(drive letter):\windows\system32\drivers