No sound on my desktop - help, please!

[kpankulu]

Have lost sound on my desktop for two weeks now, and have run into a brick wall trying to get assistance.

I would appreciate some assistance here.

I have the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Advanced MB installed, and its icon currently indicates volume instead of the generic Windows icon. When I double-click or right-click and select speaker settings on the icon, I get the message "the audio device supported by this application is not detected; the application will now exit".

VOLUME CONTROL:
There are no active mixes available....when I go to Add hardware under Printers and Other hardware (Control Panel), all the codecs are deemed to be working properly.

SOUNDS AND AUDIO DEVICE PROPERTIES:
Audio codecs, legacy audio codecs, media control devices all working properly.



(FROM BELARC ADVISOR)

Operating System
Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

System Model
Dell Inc. Dell DXP051
System Service Tag: FJ0VPB1 (support for this PC)
Chassis Serial Number: FJ0VPB1
Enclosure Type: Tower

Main Circuit Board b
Board: Dell Inc. 0FJ030
Serial Number: ..CN7082167BF0PN.
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A05 05/30/2006

Multimedia
Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device

[tantoro]

You may have the wrong drivers installed. It may be a good idea to uninstall and reinstall all sound related drivers. Check this link for the current drivers:
http://support.dell.com/support/down...&catid=&impid=

If you do not have a PCI sound card, install the integrated sigmatel drivers. You may have some additional Soundblaster functionality installed over the sigmatel and if so, is licensed and can only be installed via CD, not via free download.


Steve