No Sound No Playback Devices Grayed Out
Jan 15, 2006
I am running a WinXP SP2 machine, with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.One day, during a Windows session, my sound just stopped working. I tried to play a song in Winamp, and got the message: "Device not found. Please select another device in configuration. Error code: 88780078." The window title was "DirectSound output v2.2.12 error".Trying to play a song in Windows Media Player yielded a simlar result: "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly."
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Jun 12, 2008
I've been trying to figure this problem out for a while.After a little break, im back on the search for the solution.I've noticed that a lot of people have had the same or similar issue, but the solutions that i've found havn't helped me out.I had an M-audio firewire 410 audio interface, and one day i stupidly unplugged it without first turning off my computer. Ever since that happened, my sound has stopped working, all options in "sounds and audio devices" are greyed out with 'no audio device' showing up. I've uninstalled all m-audio drivers including the hidden ones. I've uninstalled all of my motherboard audio drivers and re-installed them. I've reformatted my whole computer out of desperation and then re-installed the motherboards audio drivers. Still I have the same issue. When i click on the installed audio drivers, it says they are working properly.Is this a hardware issue? do i need a new motherboard?
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May 6, 2006
I have lost my sound. The sounds icon in control panel say " no audio devices" AND the sound tab shows all listed devices as working porperly. I have deleted an sound object that allows it in device manager and allowed XP to load wht it will. I still have no sound. I checked for sound services in services and they are started as well.If I load Knoppix and test, my sounds work so I am assumming it is not a hardware problem.
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Jul 28, 2005
Im Using Windows Media Player 10 and When i play a dvd i get no sound and distorted video like a roll of film being exposed to sunlight. It may have somthing to do with overlays. The video problem started after i installed the latest 6800 Ultra drivers. All media players have the Video distortion. Distortion does not happen when i play video of my HDDs.
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Jun 3, 2010
How i can go to play back option in sound panel because i am using spdif cable fgraphic card to motherboard. I have spdif as default in playback option to get sound.
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May 25, 2008
Recently, my computer made a few beeping sounds, shut itself down and rebooted. Nothing happened. The second time it did it, there was no sound. I have Windows XP. When I start up my iTunes, it says iTunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration. Audio/Video playback may not operate properly. With Windows Media Player it says, Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly....
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Aug 8, 2007
im running a dell dimension 4600 and just today there is no sound from my speakers. I tried re-installing my driver, checked to see if it's muted, checked BIOS. It was working yesterday...Can anyone tell me how to check my Sound Playback device and playback programs? I'm using Media Player and iTunes I tried other speakers and there is still no sound Also, forgot to mention that my speaker makes a static/fuzzy noise when i turn up.
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Apr 15, 2010
I have trouble with the sound after reformating the computer and installing a new O.S. but can find a solution similar to mine with XP x 64 bit So I'm in the same boat ,,, Reformate my computer Install Xp x64 and no sound .But I tried already downloading the sound driver for my Motherboard in ASUS run the exe. but no sound still , the Yellow question mark still in the Other Devices / Multimedia Audio Controller, Pls can someone point me in the right direction of what step I'm missing and in wich order of installing, with all this sound drivers options I don't know wich one I need first to install and wich one I dont really need, for sure my sound card , but the other 3 ?
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Mar 3, 2007
I have Windows XP Media Center installed on my computer. How do I shut off all the sound devices on my computer so that when I get an error screen or start up my computer or whatever, I don't get any sound at all?
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Apr 18, 2008
I had Windows XP reinstalled on my computer hard drive.When I got my computer back.The sound was not working. When I went to My Computer/ Hardware Devices, there were 3 yellow question marks on:SM Bus Controller..PCI Device Video Controller. Do I need to delete these and try to reload them. If so, is there a process or Disc i need to do this?
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Mar 22, 2005
I received no sound from my computer. Have checked my speakers and they are working well. Howevert,I tend to receive this message:"There are no active mixer devices available. To install mixer devices,go to Control panel,click Printers and Other Hardware,and then click Add Hardware".
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Apr 4, 2006
I had to reinstall windows XP because my OS would not load and I got all the drivers reinstalled, diagnostic ran smooth and everything came up working ok etc but my device manager won't recognize anything! The compy says my audio mixers are not there, my USB devices are not working, hardware wizard is not responding, microsoft updates are not working, Dell's driver downloads are calling out for something that isn't there and I really need this fixed ASAP so I can get to my external HD.
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Mar 26, 2007
Is there anyway to remove the sound tab in Sounds and Audio devices, using a regedit and then to readd it.
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Jan 27, 2006
Mt taskbar and start menu have decided to become greyed out i have tried the taskbar repair site but you have to pay $5.00 i have tried other sites but hetting nowhere fast all i want is for my taskbar to be blue with the start button green lol if that makes any sence this all started when i removed all my worms and trojons
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Feb 8, 2006
I'm trying to configure the Windows Firewall after recently installing SP2, but it's set to 'Off' and the options to turn it on are greyed out. A message at the top says "For your security, some settings are controlled by Group Policy". After googling for some answers, I came across a couple of solutions, some of which involve reg editing, and others using the gpedit.msc tool. Problem is, I'm using XP Home, on which the reg keys don't exist and the gpedit tool doesn't either. SOMETHING must be blocking these things. So how can I disable this Group Policy thing, even though XP Home isn't meant to use it, doesnt have it and I never changed any settings like that in the first place?
I found I can turn the firewall on/off by changing the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWin dowsFirewallStandardProfile EnableFirewall=0/1. and in the Contrl Panel util it changes it's status, but it's still greyed-out with that Group Policy stuff. This is my first post after searching hi and low for help. Thanks for any you can provide. I understand windows, ha ha, but am not a nuts and bolts insider with registry or editers. Just want firewall to work. I upgraded my laptop with noproblem with sp2......
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Aug 5, 2005
As the administrator signed in, i can not access a lot of buttons or check mark boxes because they are grayed out. Please advice is need to gain full access.
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Dec 3, 2007
I noticed my standby button was grayed out.I haven't really tried to seek out an answer for this but sometimes I would like to put my computer in standby. I think it may have something to do with a power setting or a driver installed.
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Sep 7, 2005
noticed an icon on my desktop representing the email I had read (and deleted). Now I can't delete the icon. It is grayed out and I get the message "Cannot delete file: cannot read from source disk or file"-no kidding. How do I get rid of this thing?
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Jul 12, 2005
The "Customize" Button in The Taskbar and Start Menu Dialog box is grayed out. How do I activate it please? laurice4@aol.com
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Dec 19, 2004
Was just wondering if anyone would know my when I play my MP3's that the playback is skippy like. Like, its not static or garbled, Just like a CD when it skips. Streaming audio or any other audio is like MP3 playback. Why is this??
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Jan 23, 2005
Windows 2000 usually displays the username and password when i want to log on, and i just click OK and go to the desktop. However, upon turning it on today nothing appears, i press enter and it says to enter a username and password, Cancel is greyed out and there is no 'X' button.
I can't for the life of me find the username and/or password and have no rememberance as to the username or password in my head (never needed to remember it).
Is there anyway i can get round it? BIOS changes? password hackers? I really am looking for anything that might work
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Jun 18, 2006
I've searched for this topic and am not able to find anything. I'm wondering why my Windows Firewall options are all greyed out and a message states that "for your security, some settings are controlled by a group policy" I also have a follow up question as to how to remove a service that appears to not be in the HJT log but shows when I check msconfig under services
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May 15, 2006
In Display properties when clicking the Desktop tab the Position option is greyed out and fixed on "stretch" but all other options can be customised.
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Jun 12, 2006
I have run a windows repair twice, and no luck either time. After the first repair the computer worked fine, until I installed SP2, and lost the taskbar, and couldn't fix that (you can view that thread here: http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt...tart-menu.html. After the recent repair everything went fine until I tried to install SP2 again. I will start the computer, and windows will load. Everything is fine until the login screen appears (windows XP home ed.). The screen lasts for about 1.5 seconds and then it goes BSOD.
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Jul 9, 2005
I am having a challenge making a Windows XP workstation part of a Small Business Server 2003 domain; both are relatively fresh OS installs. The WinXP box was placed on line before the SBS and has been running through (2 NICs) the SBS to the internet as a "Workgroup:" computer. Now that I am ready to join the WinXP to the SBS as a "Domain:" computer I find a terrific challenThe first indication of a challenge came when the SBS <http://<sbs2003ServerName>/connectcomputer> ran into errors. It would place itself on the workstation with the user indent, "__sbs_netsetup__",
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Jan 23, 2010
A Vostro Dell laptop protected by ESET--was apparently infected and shut down. I used a rescue disc to disable the malware, but computer would still not allow log in. Then I used the OEM Windows XP Home Edition disc that came with the computer to boot and then repair. Computer then booted and seemed to be working well. I uninstalled ESET (license was soon to expire) and installed Norton 360 and ran a comprehensive scan. Norton reported that it quarantined four files, one of them a trojan.
Computer now seems to be operating well with one exception. The malware had removed the desktop background photo. When I went to Display properties/Desktop to select a photo for display, the browse and position controls were grayed out and not functioning. By right clicking on the icon for a jpeg file, I can set it as desktop background; but I cannot control the position: center, stretch, tile.
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Aug 10, 2006
System Info:
Windows XP SP2
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon X800
160GB HD
When I try to play video files the video will pause for a split second every few seconds and I don't know what the problem is. In fact my computer is running much slower than normal lately. I've gotton rid of unused programs, I've run SpyBot, and I've updated my video drivers.
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Aug 9, 2005
When watching DVDs or listening to music from MP3 on the hard drive, the performance is jerky. This happens using WMP and RealPlayer both. I used TaskManager to see if there was any resident stuff and eliminated antispyware and a few other programs, but nothing shows on the list. I ran Process Explorer from SysInternals.com and it shows19-35 % of the CPU capacity from "Interrupts". What can be causing this stuttering or jerky performance.
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Oct 25, 2005
Suddenly WMP plays wmv files with everything in blue and pink, sound is okay and all other file formats playback okay. Has anybody found a viable solution for this one?
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Nov 28, 2005
Running win-xp-he-sp2 OS. I want to change the Drive Letter for my hard disk #2, but the Change Drive Letter is grayed-out; in fact, this is true for all the drives listed. How do I correct this problem?
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Jul 11, 2005
I've tried everything. After download of SP2 I tried several things to no avail. I uninstalled ZoneAlarm. I uninstalled Norton 2003. But the options to turn on XP firewall are still grayed out.
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