I spent 18 hours yesterday, losing access to a hard drive, installing another one and doing 5 fresh installs of Windows 2000 before it would work.
Now it’s working, except that the Windows audio mixer is absent. It disappeared on the reboot after installing the ethernet card. (?!) Going to Start/Run and typing in sndvol32.exe gives me the message that there are no mixer devices on the hard drive, and I can add new mixer devices in Add/Remove Programs.
No such luck.
Anybody have any ideas here? Sound is primarily what I do with my computer. Please tell me I don’t have to reinstall Windows again!
This shouldn’t be so damned difficult.
Is the sound card in Device Manager? Do you have the latest drivers for it?
The sound card now shows up in Device Manager, since I reinstalled the drivers from the Soundblaster CD. However, there is still no audio coming out. The Properties in Device Manger, of the sound card says that the drivers are not installed. Even though I put them on and the computer rebooted. Going to a folder with a sound file, when the Windows player comes up on the left of the screen, the Play button is greyed out. So I’m stymied!
The Windows Mixer was there early on in the installations process. I was playing music through each of the sources and they all worked. Then after one reboot, the speaker icon in the systray was gone, and it hasn’t come back.
Do I need to go buy another sound card? This one is about 6 years old, but it has always worked flawlessly.
Any ideas?
I should also add that there are no driver or resource conflicts.
You might try the Update Driver button so that Windows reinstalls the driver.
I’ve already done that. That’s the part I don’t get. I’ve reinstalled it, the computer has rebooted, the Properties tell me that the drivers aren’t loaded. I’ve done it multiple times and get the same result every time.