No Sound [please help]

[pizzaboy9010]

I've been trying to solve this problem for so long, it's not even funny.

I have no sound, and when I go to the Sound and Audio Devices control panel, it says I have No Audio Devices. I have a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS soundcard, installed, and it seems to be working properly.

I run windows XP, and I have a ASUS P4S8X-X motherboard.

Please help, and lemme know if you need anymore info.

[hudsonsmith]

Welcome to windrivers pizzaboy.
- Your motherboard has AC'97 Soundmax audio onboard. Did you disable the onboard audio in bios before installing the Audigy card?
- What are you showing in device manager? Any yellow ! or ? Does the Audigy appear under sound controllers?
- Have you installed the latest driver (7/29/04) for the Audigy http://us.creative.com/support/downl...me=Windows+XP? Note - you need SP1 (or SP2) installed first.

[ngc4414]

also try updating your bios, worked for me

[pizzaboy9010]

Welcome to windrivers pizzaboy.
- Your motherboard has AC'97 Soundmax audio onboard. Did you disable the onboard audio in bios before installing the Audigy card?
- What are you showing in device manager? Any yellow ! or ? Does the Audigy appear under sound controllers?
- Have you installed the latest driver (7/29/04) for the Audigy http://us.creative.com/support/downl...me=Windows+XP? Note - you need SP1 (or SP2) installed first.

- I have disabled it before this. No luck.
- No errors in the Device Manager.
- I downloaded and install that driver, but still no luck.

also try updating your bios, worked for me

How would I go about doing that?

[Duke of Rezin]

Can you see the Audigy in Device Manager? I've found that with Creative's drivers, after what seems to be a successful install using the installation cd, you then have to go into Device Manager and install manually, choosing to install the drivers from a specific location (in this case from the install cd). I've had to do this at different times with several Soundblaster Live! cards and my Audigy card and I have a Modem Blaster that only wants to install using the Add Hardware wizard. I never can avoid the temptation to tweak Windows til it breaks and requires a fresh install so I have reinstalled the same cards multiple times. Sometimes they install normally and sometimes they have to be installed manually.

[pizzaboy9010]

Can you see the Audigy in Device Manager? I've found that with Creative's drivers, after what seems to be a successful install using the installation cd, you then have to go into Device Manager and install manually, choosing to install the drivers from a specific location (in this case from the install cd). I've had to do this at different times with several Soundblaster Live! cards and my Audigy card and I have a Modem Blaster that only wants to install using the Add Hardware wizard. I never can avoid the temptation to tweak Windows til it breaks and requires a fresh install so I have reinstalled the same cards multiple times. Sometimes they install normally and sometimes they have to be installed manually.

Yes I do see it, and I will try that. I'll report back on how it went

[Poseidon]

Which PCI slot is the Audigy in? You say you can see it in Device Manager under Sound/Video controllers, but yet no available audio devices can be seen in the control panel. Is it a new card? When did it stop working? Are you running SP2?

[pizzaboy9010]

Which PCI slot is the Audigy in? You say you can see it in Device Manager under Sound/Video controllers, but yet no availible audio devices can be seen in the control panel. Is it a new card? When did it stop working? Are you running SP2?

Brand new, about a month old. I've been trying to fix this since then. I've changed PCI slots, and they all do the same thing. Im running SP1.

[NooNoo]

What is showing in control panel, multimedia for playback and record devices? Are they greyed out?

[pizzaboy9010]

What is showing in control panel, multimedia for playback and record devices? Are they greyed out?

Both are Modem #1 Line Playback, and thats it.

[clauded]

uninstal the modem then install the sound card and after this reinstall the modem,it did work for me

[pizzaboy9010]

uninstal the modem then install the sound card and after this reinstall the modem,it did work for me

I use the cat 5 slot on my motherboard, becuase I have cable. I should uninstall that? That would be the only 'modem' on my pc.

[hudsonsmith]

Your pc thinks it has a modem, or at least the wav driver for one. Confirm that you don't have any modems showing up in device manager, then look under sound devices for the modem driver and delete it.

Also try this:
From a command prompt type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
Then start device manager and select view hidden devices. Delete any phantom hardware that you no longer have installed.

[pizzaboy9010]

Your pc thinks it has a modem, or at least the wav driver for one. Confirm that you don't have any modems showing up in device manager, then look under sound devices for the modem driver and delete it.

Also try this:
From a command prompt type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
Then start device manager and select view hidden devices. Delete any phantom hardware that you no longer have installed.

Tried it, and it didn't work. The only modem it's seeing is the one on my motherboard.

Any other ideas?

[hudsonsmith]

Tried it, and it didn't work. The only modem it's seeing is the one on my motherboard.

Any other ideas?

So you DO have a modem. Follow clauded's advice. Disable the modem and then try to install the sound card.