RE: Lost audio when I upgraded to XP from 98SE

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THanks for the assist. I uninstalled the SBLive, pulled the card, rebooted
and then reinstalled the card and drivers, and with some tweaking of the
settings, was finally able to get it to work...only thing I can't get to
play, are *.rmi files (I think these are Media Player files???).

"Travis" wrote:

> Does your motherboard have onboard audio? If you are disabling a function of
> your sound card then you will not get any sound, but the "multimedia audio
> controller" you're seeing could be resident on another card. I would try
> this:
>
> Download the latest driver for your soundblaster from www.soundblaster.com
> or http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/ then go through the list and
> pick your soundcard and click next to pick your language, OS, and file type
> that you want. Click 'go'
>
> Hopefully that helps...
>
> -Travis
>
> "Rob J" wrote:
>
> > I no longer have any audio now that I upgraded to XP from 98SE. I checked my
> > device manager hardware, and the only thing I have a ? for is MULTIMEDIA
> > AUDIO CONTROLLER. Is this a device that is required? I tried to install a
> > driver, but none is found. Is this a microsoft device, or one that would
> > have been a component of a add-on piece of hardware? I have a Creative Labs
> > SBLive soundcard. All those components indicate they are working properly.
> > Can anyone suggest what I can try to fix the problem and get my sound
> > working again? I tried removing the MULTIMEDIA AUDIO CONTROLLER, but it
> > reappears each time I reboot, so now I just have it disabled. Is there a
> > driver for this that I'm just not finding? TIA
.

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