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Originally Posted by Valiante
Ok, I have found a working solution, but only if you have my specific problem;
In Device Manager your Audio Device is "Working Properly", however in Sounds and Audio Devices you are told there is "No Audio Device".
After installing XP SP2 the "Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator" stops functioning. This can be confirmed by looking in Device Manager - there should be an entry for this listed under System Devices. If not, then you have the same problem as me and the following fix *should* work...
- Copy C:\WINDOWS\inf\machine.inf to a temporary location
- Edit your copy of machine.inf in Notepad
- Remove line 20 (ExcludeFromSelect=*)
- Run the Add New Hardware wizard
- Select Show All Devices and Have Disk
- Browse to the location of your copy of machine.inf
- Under Standard System Devices, select the Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator
Your audio device should now be recognised.
Hope this helps lots of people as it took me a week to find the solution!
Merry Christmas
Valiante
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This fix WORKS. I had no enumerator in the hardware profile. I had previously installed XP on top of itself in a different directory only to have sound work so I knew it wasn't hardware based. Then that installation went to crap thanks to spyware and such.
I still had the boot option for my original install. Once i applied the above fix, it started working IMMEDIATELY. NO reboot, nothing.
Thank you SO MUCH for your contribution. This made my fix about 15 minutes long. (It took me 15 minutes to go through other fixes listed here, but the Windows Audio service was already started, etc)