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| Thread ID: 65824 | 2006-02-01 06:57:00 | XP Device Manager - removing duplicated devices | straka01 (310) | Press F1 |
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| 426030 | 2006-02-01 06:57:00 | I am have trouble getting my sound to work on my son's PC now I've loaded XP. It's 1100mhz with 512mb RAM. The machine is NOT connected to the internet in any way or on a network. I've noticed that in my device manager I have two entries of Audio Codecs & Media Control Devices and I was thinking that this may be the problem. However, when I right click on the device I DO NOT have any DELETE tab. Pressing DELETE on the keyboard with the device highlighted has no effect. I'm more used to win98 and find I can remove items easily in this system. Another idea I had was to remove the entire Sound device manager and restart letting XP reinstall everything. But I can't seem to do that either. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 426031 | 2006-02-01 22:04:00 | Does the sound cable plug into the motherboard, or is there a separate sound card? You may have both "on-board" sound and a sound card. Usually the "on-board" sound can be disabled through BIOS. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 426032 | 2006-02-01 23:10:00 | It plugs into the motherboard. Previously the machine had win98 on it and sound worked fine so it's a bit of a mystery why it should stop when I loaded XP. There's no other sound card in the machine. Actually, I couldn't see any sound controls in the bios - I checked to see if that may have been a problem. |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 426033 | 2006-02-01 23:32:00 | ... However, when I right click on the device I DO NOT have any DELETE tab. Pressing DELETE on the keyboard with the device highlighted has no effect........... OK, but how about when you right click and then go into Properties, do you have any sort of options for disable, remove or roll back driver etc? What one gets seems to vary with the device/driver. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 426034 | 2006-02-01 23:40:00 | I have options to update or roll back driver however the uninstall button which is there is 'non-active'... | straka01 (310) | ||
| 426035 | 2006-02-02 00:13:00 | It also looks as though the driver for your audio chipset is missing from Device Manager. Do you have a motherboard drivers and utilities CD? That is needed, generally speaking, after installing an operating system. It is possible that XP did not correctly detect the audio. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 426036 | 2006-02-02 01:35:00 | That's the problem - when I bought the PC on TradeMe the chap never supplied a motherboard CD. It's a Asus Tusi-M. | straka01 (310) | ||
| 426037 | 2006-02-02 01:46:00 | If you still havent got the drivers then, go here (support.asus.com) Type in tusi-m in the top lefthand corner. Then click on the tusi-m link, then find what u need, download, unzip, and install. These (dlsvr01.asus.com) are the soundcard drivers for XP. From the above site. Since it looks like a SIS based mobo, expect it to lag, (when opening programs etc), like any other SIS-based motherboard. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 426038 | 2006-02-02 03:14:00 | Thankyou - I'm downloading that now. Let's hope it works for me. I'd still like to know why I can't delete items from the device manager like I can in 98. Perhaps there's also a conflict with the double ups? |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 426039 | 2006-02-02 04:13:00 | I've installed this program - but still no sound. When I go into Control Panel / Sound & Audion Properties and click on the Volume tab - it states that there is NO AUDIO DEVICE. Plus when I click on the Sounds tab / highlight the Asterisk (in windows defaults) and press the arrowhead to play the sound - a message pops up stating 'Cannot Play Sound. Your Sound Card May Be In Use'. Perhaps I need to delete items from the device manager and let it find them again on reboot. Perhaps there's a conflict with the double ups? |
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