Re: no sound

From: Nathan McNulty (525676_at_betaweb.com)
Date: 07/09/04


Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 22:03:26 -0700

Try this, open device manager again. Right click on everything that says
Audio on it, and select remove (or uninstall), now reboot. Windows
should reinstall the drivers for them. ;)

Nathan McNulty

kyle wrote:

> hi,
> all of a sudden while listening to music on my computer
> the sound stopped. I tried checking the status of the
> sound devices from the control panel but the options were
> greyed out. i looked in device manager and found two
> devices; Kernel Acoustic Echo Canceller and Kernel Audio
> Splitter. There is a common problem with both of these
> which reads:
>
> Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware
> because there is a duplicate device already running in
> the system. (Code 42)
>
> I have looked up this error code on your site and
> numerous others and the only solution i cna find is to
> restart my computer. This, however has no effect
> whatsoever on the devices. Do you have any ideas???



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