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

Good morning jack2656

This will be today's task. Many thanks for help.

Regards

Ian (no techie)




"jack2656" wrote:

Ian, this is Jack2656. You don’t have to do anything with streamci.dll and
swenum. Copy the file machine.inf from your windows folder on the boot drive
(usually C:\ ) in to the temp folder. The path on my WinXP Pro computer is
C:\WINDOWS\inf\machine.inf. Modify the machine.inf file (you can open it
with notepad) by deleting line 20: ExcludeFromSelect=*. I had uninstalled
the Plug and Play Software Enumerator so I reinstalled it with the Add
Hardware wizard. Here’s a step-by-step description of what I had to do
(remember I have XP Pro so it might be a little different in XP Home).

- Open the Add Hardware wizard and select Next on the Welcome window.
- On the Is the Hardware connected? Window select the Yes button, then
select next.
- The next window listed the hardware already installed on my computer. At
the bottom of the list select Add a New Hardware Device, then select Next.
- On the next window select Install the Hardware I Manually select from a
List (Advanced), then select Next.
- On the next window select Show All Devices, then select Next.
- The next window has a left and a right side. In the left side, labeled
Manufacturer, select (Standard system devices) and on the right, or Model,
side select Plug and Play Software Enumerator, then select Have Disk.
- On the Install From Disk window select Browse and navigate to the
machine.inf file in the Temp folder you created, then select Open. Select OK
on the Install From Disk window and make sure Plug and Play Software
Enumerator is still selected in the Model window (I had to repeat the Have
Disk selection a couple of time before Plug and Play Software Enumerator
stayed selected). Wtih Plug and Play Software Enumerator highlighted select
next and it will install it.

Now you can go to the System folder in Control Panel and select Device
Manager from the Hardware tab and make sure the Plug and Play Software
Enumerator is installed without a yellow exclamation mark. If it is then
uninstall your sound driver and restart your computer if it asks you to (If
it doesn’t then just right click on Sound, video and game controller in
device manager and it will reinstall the sound driver). If you rebooted
Windows it should install the sound card for you and the sound card should
now work.

Good Luck
jack


"Ian" wrote:

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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