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

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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