Re: At wit's end - "No Audio Device"

Hi Paul

I'm still a little confused. Having placed PnP software device enumerator
in c:\temp what do I do with streamci.dll and swenum?

Many thanks

ian

"Paul" wrote:

I GOT IT!!!! WOOOOHOOOO! Finally. Way too many hours spent on
this. First, your questions/comments...





In services, make sure that the WinAudio service is enabled,
automatic, and running. Then in Device Manager, System Devices make
sure Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator is installed ok.

Yes, I checked that every so often. It was always on.

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If you need to reinstall the Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator,
copy machine.inf from %windir%\inf to a temp dir
remove line 20: ExcludeFromSelect=*

There is more that is needed...continue reading.

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Now using the New hardware Wizard:

add new hardware \ have disk (select the temp dir
with the modified machine.inf) and install the
plug and play software enumerator

(swenum.sys is found in system32\drivers
streamci.dll is found in system32
or they can be found on your windows disk)

The interesting thing about that is I tried deleting each of these and
they would come right back, without me doing anything.

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Once that is reinstalled, uninstall the sound card drive, do a scan
for hardware changes then after it finds and reinstalls that card, you
should have sound again.

I was right that the sound card install is just fine.

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Good luck, and post back results please.


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Here is what I needed to do...

I did need to fix the PnP Device Enumerator. HOWEVER, I read this
site:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16136&pid=101347&mode=threaded&start=#entry101347

and that said I should delete all the registry entries for swenum. So
I did that and reinstalled the PnP Device Enumerator. At first it
generated an error and did not work. So I rebooted and tried again.
It worked this time. I then uninstalled my sound driver, the OS
automatically found it again and it installed correctly. Now it
works.

Finally...THANKS for all your help, everyone who responded.


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