Windows Sound Help
 

Going mad :mad: here :(

Dunno what the heck has happened to my windows system sounds but they are not mapping through my soundcard so I get no sound :(

Anyone know how I restore this ? This all happened since I installed k-lite codecs : uninstalled that and am still getting the same problem :rolleyes:

Any suggestions ?

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Can you use system restore to a point before you installed the codecs?

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Goto Control-Panel->Sounds and Audio Devices and make sure output is set to the correct place.

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Done all that : System restore is no good as its disabled :/

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Tried going into Device-Manager, Uninstalling your Sound Card and rebooting?

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The one strange thing I have noticed is within device manger >

Sound, video and game controllers > Audio Codecs >

There is no device usage : Should these not be mapped to a device ?

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Done that mate : See my last post What does you Audio codecs : device usage say ?

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revert to standard windows xp sound theme

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Done it got the tee-shirt.

FECK I just compared it to my windows 2003 server and I think I know what the problem is :

I have lost a majority of my codecs like *.acm etc

:( How do I get them back

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klite codec pack

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I always recommend people don't turn system restore off! I used it myself the other day to revert back to normal after vista transformation pack screwed me over.

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That bashtar....*d thing is what caused this problem i the first place... dunno if I am using the right version... You got a linky mate ?

Cheers

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Hey I had exactly the same problem as you when I installed the K-Lite Codec Pack... but when I uninstalled it, the sound came back... Maybe you could try re-downloading your sound card driver...

You could try downloading a different codec pack... I use this one now.

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http://www.codecguide.com/


DW

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House points and gold stars all round.

Its not quite sorted yet I'm downloading a few codec packs but dont think it'll help as the codecs that I have lost are generic microsoft ones we'll see how I get on

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Sounds odd how you've lost the default codecs...?

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Yeh lost codecs like

imaadp32.acm
msadp32.acm
msg711.acm
Windows Media Audio Codec

etc

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Come on this is windows we are talking about : Expect sh** like this to happen.

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LOL... Sorry I forgot :D :erm:

Maybe this will help.

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Dunno what to do with this one :

F***ING WINDOWS : EVERY YEAR ITS THE SAME F........... STORY IT STARTS COMPLAINING : PLEASE REINSTALL ME PLEASE : PLEASE I'M TIRED I GOT TO BE DEFRAGED YOU GOT TOO MANY APPS INSTALLED I AM SLOWING DOWN ETC ETC ETC.

FFS :mad:

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Date: Sun 5 Oct 2003 06:22
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Wesley VogelX wrote:
> [H]omer wrote:

>>In the process of trying to get the Lame ACM MP3 audio codec to work
>>on my system, I used the control panel applet for audio devices to
>>remove the . Now I want to get it back.

>>I have tried reinstalling everything I can think of to try to get this
>>codec back, such as WMP9, DX9, and even WM Encoder 9, all to no avail.

>>Don't tell me this is yet another scenario where the only solution is
>>a complete re-install of the OS.
> [H]omer;
> Try here:
> http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/download/index.html
> Or open Search in IE/type: Fraunhofer MP3 codec /See what you get.
> Hope this helps. Let us know.

Well I bit the bullet and reinstalled XP (using "Repair" rather than a
fresh copy).

To my *very* pleasant surprise, all went well.

Looking at the registry, I now see what went wrong.

At some point (presumably during the removal of the XP version of the
Fhg MP3 codec (version 1.9) an entire branch of the registry got wiped out:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Co mponents\Installed\codec_fhg

And no amount of reinstalling seems to restore those keys - other than a
full OS reinstall.

One thing that bugs me, apart from the obvious, is the number of people
who tell me that the Fhg MP3 codec is *not* part of Windows, and
redirect me to Fraunhofer's website.

Version 1.9 (crippled) *is* installed as part of the Windows install,
and it was *that* version I was trying to restore.

So the moral of the story is, do not use the control panel to uninstall
codecs on XP.

Lesson learned.

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Can you not now switch system restore on? That way something like this won't happen again. I usually make a restore point before i install something new. :)

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No mate windows is s*** slow as it is already without turning on that system restore cr*p. (and it only goes back 3 months too)

I will however make it a priority to dump daily network images and restore that way.

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I hate system restore how it only remembers 3 months back. :mad:

Did this not help mate?

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Plus the irregular backup points WTF ! Sometimes you want to go back to a specific day and you cant. b*ll*xs.

Have you read that link ? Shesh I tried 1 or too codecs but its gonna be tedious finding all of them.

I'll have a smoke then try it it ... maybe

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I had a similiar problem with my old Audigy 2 card, it'd intermiittently stop working for no reason, even though it had been working AOK for like a month

Only way I could get it working was to uninstall it via add/remove programs, then reinstall it

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That may be because of the amount of HD space you have set for it. I think it only deletes points when it runs low on space or you tell it to.

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Well, when I did have it enabled it would only let me go back 3 months on the calendar... :confused:

I've got plenty of hard disk space...

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No offence CRC but you say...

Why is that a problem with Windows? Its a problem with the app you installed and its uninstaller wiping out the whole key.

If i write a dodgy Unix script that formats your drive is that Unix's fault?

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The effect was not to wipe the OS but to render the sound obsolete. At least unix would allow you to quickly reapply the components show me how to do that in windows

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System restore.

But you had it turned off...

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Thats not a restore of a component : Thats a restore of a whole disk image come on get with the program

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Its nowhere near the restore of a whole disk image :monkey:

The following are restored when you use System Restore to restore your system to a previous time using a restore point:

Registry
Profiles (local only�roaming user profiles not impacted by restore)
COM+ DB
WFP.dll cache
WMI DB
IIS Metabase

Less of the grief man - im only trying to point out your inadequacies :D

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LoL :rofl:

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Yeh yeh I should read the windows for dummies book too.

STILL this is not a method of restoring something as simple as a few codecs. Why rollback profiles too or is there an option to exclude them ?

Anyway I've had sys restore fail on me before - its not a robust solution nor does it answer

" How do you re-install broken codecs or for that matter ANY generic windows component "

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Thanks all sorry for sounding vexed looks like I'm going for a re-install and will be leaving system restore on this time thanks Blueraja - no hard feelings mate

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Just turn it off on any secondary partitions or hard drives and save off local;)

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any reason you cant create the reg value yourself?

attached file is said key open it and double click it should rewrite the key

normal idiot warnings follow (I know your not btw just covering my ample ass ;))

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I've given up mate I tried a few methods with no joy might even install vista ? or is that asking for trouble ?

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HMMMMmmmmmm theres an idea thanks for that mate : I should have just exported the keys from a working machine and tried that also :

I'll give this a shot later on 2nite when I get back and after the machine has finished dumping over the network

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Or try following this thread right to the end...

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Nice 1 mate : Only just got back and its fixed it but I am still considering the wipe down of the machines as performance is a bit on the sucky side.