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"Tang99" wrote:

> I've had a problem for a while. Something went wrong a while back and
> windows crashed. I thought it was a video capturing device(Adaptec 2010) so
> in Safe Mode I took out the device from Device Manager and then I was able to
> run windows without failing.
> After I realized that my CD driver and DVD driver had "!" marks by them
> along with my audio device. So the only thing to fix the problem was to
> uninstal the audio device and the CD and DVD device worked fine. Then I
> tried to get my Audio device back and all it says is that it works fine.
> The Sounds and audio Devices Properties says that it can't find any audio
> device along with the Volume Control says "There are no active mixer devices
> available". How can I force my sound and volume devices to reconize the
> sound card? Could the sound card be blown when it had the conflict with the
> Video Capture Card? Any Ideas on what I could do before going out and buying
> a new audio card?
> I have already tried over 6 different drivers from old to new from The
> audio company C-Media to the motherboard PC Chips. Nothing seems to works.
> It is a audio card on the motherboard and called C-Medio AC/97. The
> Motherboard is PC Chips Model M848ALU(v2.1?). If anyone has any ideas pelase
> help.
>
> Tom