No active mixer devices, no sound, no audio devices

HP Pavilion dv5000, Windows XP Home Edition pre-installed. Have searched all over; seems to be a common problem but none of the available solutions I could find have worked (save for system restore, to which I haven't yet resorted).
Message Edited by insidervc on 09-23-2009 11:41 AM

2011.10.07
This may be an old reply, but I wouldn't advise a system restore. Tech support told my friend to do this with his laptop and it never worked the same again, i.e. made the situation worse. He was trying to get a high spec game to play better, but after tech supports suggestion of system restore no game worked, i.e. were so slow that were un playable.
hope this helps for the future.....
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Vondo333Message Edited by Vondo333 on -04-2005 08:36 PM


Hi All, I think that I'll reiterate my problem.
st I have done all the uninstalling and deleting before installing the Audigy 2 Value that is logically expected. When I was done installing and restarted I didn't see the speaker icon pop up in the toolbar area so I went to "Control Panel, System Info Area", and open Device Manager, went to "Sound, Video, and Game Controllers". Opened "Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)" to Properties. It say's that the device is working properly. So I go to "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the Control Panel. Click the Volume tab and it say's "No Audio Device". Go to the Audio tab, and it says under each item "No Playback Devices, No Recording Devices, No MIDI Playback Devices". I go to the Voice tab and it says "No Playback Devices". I go to the Hardware tab, and click the "Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)". It says "This device is working properly".

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That's what I was afraid of. I switched to Ubuntu at Dapper Drake, so I've not been up to speed with the details of program changes the way I was with Slackware. I don't want to install the OSS layer only for the sake of a volume widget.
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