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"No sound mixer device is available" Computer Question
Dallas59 ^ | 10/14/2008 | Dallas59

Posted on 10/14/2008 5:38:21 AM PDT by Dallas59

The computer in the Living room was infected with a virus and after running the scan and fix I now have a problem with "No sound mixer device is available" error message. I have no sound. I have tried the the Service Management route and restarted the service , several times, no go. I have tried the Bios route and enabled all on board audio. Nothing. I downloaded and installed the Realtek 97 codecs and still no go. I used the XP CD to try and repair the service and nothing. I tried copying the Machine.inf file and eliminating line 20. Nothing. I am now to the point of just saving important files and reinstalling XP. The Microsoft website was really no help in just a single, understandable fix.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any fixes?


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To: Dallas59

Silence is Golden.


21 posted on 10/14/2008 6:48:07 AM PDT by Fawn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhYampIl7A)
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To: RightFighter

LKGF has worked for me on several occasions, but not always.

For example, I once got a blue screen of death upon booting into normal mode. And it happened every single time I tried booting normally.

So I shut it down, tapped F8 to get to the options and then chose “Last Known Good Figuration” and it actually booted normally into Windows and no more problems after that.


22 posted on 10/14/2008 6:50:48 AM PDT by library user
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To: Dallas59

I had that problem. Damn near drove me nuts looking for a solution. FINALLY stumbled upon this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/EN-US/

(I keep it bookmarked.)


23 posted on 10/14/2008 6:54:56 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

PS. Mine was an error code 10 ... still, the procedure fixed the problem.


24 posted on 10/14/2008 6:57:42 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief
Thanks y'all for the suggestions. As soon as my files are copied to my external I'll try some of your suggestions.
This makes setting the clocks on VCR's kindergarten stuff! 10 short years sure makes alot of difference in the way we live.
25 posted on 10/14/2008 7:02:04 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Just Say NObama!)
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To: uptoolate

I use Clonegenius beta 2008.

It works great. It even recognizes the USB ports, which is excellent for cloning to a USB hard drive.

It boots from CD/DVD. I’m not sure what OS it uses, but it has its own OS on the CD. Then it gives you the options — partitions to back up or partitions to restore, compression rate, etc.

As long as the recipient drive has plenty of free space, it is hands free from that point until it finishes. Then, you just remove the CG OS disk and reboot.

To reload it, you load from the CD and select the partition to restore to, and the backed up files (on the USB drive, for example) to restore.

I have a CG of WinXP SP1 and now SP2. I don’t like IE 7, so I have IE 6 in the CG files.

The beauty is that I can return to my last, best Drive C setup and restore it. I then only need to update any programs that were updated since I created the initial CG of with that last, best configuration. And, it takes about 40 minutes for my 28gig.

When I updated from SP1 to SP2 via Windows install, it literally took over 12 hours for Windows to do its stuff. That didn’t include any reinstalls of programs.

I am sold on imaging/cloning the OS drive.

I do a CG before I do any major additions or deletions. When I get my OS drive where I want it (settings, etc), I CG it, in case a future program upgrade or virus hits. (One of the 2000 series of Firefox created havoc on my system, for some reason. Luckily, I had the CG, so I was able to restore to the last, best. My Win System Restore function does not always restore, so it is unreliable. CG simply rewrites the selected partition, so any viruses or file programs are overwritten. Of course, if the problem is hardware, then CG or a Windows reinstall will not solve that.

You might do a google and find a copy of CG 2008 beta on one of the download sites and try it out first. The pay version has some enhanced menuing, etc.


26 posted on 10/14/2008 7:31:46 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: RightFighter

Amen - but someone at Microsoft thought it sounded good!

It’s usually like using glue to clean up chewing gum - you end up with twice the mess.


27 posted on 10/14/2008 7:31:47 AM PDT by relictele
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To: mmichaels1970

Or....get external hard drive caddies - one that will accept a desktop HD (probably need IDE & SATA connectors these days) and one that will accept laptop-sized drives.

I take the HD out of infected systems, pop it into a caddy and scan using a known good system. Infinitely faster since you’re not relying on an already-crippled host OS and as we all know viruses and spyware often hide from detection by acting as part of the OS which makes removal incomplete or temporary since some of these buggers will regenerate after removal.


28 posted on 10/14/2008 7:36:10 AM PDT by relictele
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