Satellite 2400-S251: XP audio drivers cannot be installed

i have a Satellite 2400-S251 and i just upgraded to Windows XP and now i have no sound.
I looked in my device manager and i don't see drivers but i see 4 different audio codecs.
I downloaded sound drivers from Toshiba's website (s240sndx.exe) to be exact. and it begins the installation but just when you think its almost done it just stops and says "driver not installed".
Does anyone have a solution for me?
Is it possible to manually place the INF files from the (s240sndx.exe) that I extracted to my C drive someplace. If yes then where?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

yes i presume it was a US download. i went to the page you gave me a link for and i downloaded the audio drivers. the same drivers to be exact and i have the same problem when i try to install. "audio drivers not installed". i went into control panel (sounds and audio devices) and it says at the top "no audio device" therefor i cant even turn anything up. nothing works. also in my device manager i don't have the yellow exclamation point next to sound/audio people normally get when something is not right. the audio codecs that are there say they are working properly. if there is any other questions feel free to ask i will help any way i can.

Similar Messages

  • No audio, after factory reset,flash install,SoundMax & HDA audio drivers won't install

    My problems are:
    No sound with Youtube or the laptop itself
    SoundMax won't install either though I downloaded HDA audio drivers it requested.
    Flash download stuffed up my SoundMax after factory reset.
    I decided to do a factory reset after Youtube starting slowing down. After reset it (Youtube) kind of worked better
    then the audio disappeared from the laptop. The drivers, SoundMax Audio was gone (greyed out).
    I downloaded the Audio driver from Lenovo website for my X31 but SoundMax install wouldn't install because it kept saying HDA Audio drivers weren't installed.
    I downloaded it from here:
    http://support.lenovo.com/en_AU/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT072373
    So I went to HP site to download HDA audio drivers, then the SoundMax Audio reappeared and I had sound on my computer.
    HDA Audio drivers link at HP website (since Lenovo doesn't have it):
    http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?cc=US&lang=en&swItem...
    When I downloaded latest Adobe Flash, the SoundMax Audio disappeared again. So at the moment I have Youtube video without sound (and Firefox keeps telling me to download Flash?)
    No sound on IE as well.
    Would appreciate your help. Thank you very much.
    I'm using:
    ThinkPad X31 (2673-QU6)
    Based on 2673-N7G
    Win XP Pro Service 3 with recent updates
    Firefox (latest) with add-ons
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    You need to install the modem driver too.
    http://support.lenovo.com/en_AU/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT072373
    Regards,
    Jin Li
    May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
    I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

  • Satellite M40x- 286 - no audio drivers installed

    Bought this laptop second hand and there are no audio drivers installed.
    Please help me out. laptop runs on windows xp.

    Hi magorian,
    I agree with PauPau. The drivers for your notebook can be downloaded on Toshiba European driver download page in *Archive*.
    Furthermore make sure that SP3 is installed. It contains updates for sound drivers and a lot of security updates. If SP3 is already installed, start with sound driver installation.
    If you have more questions, just post again! :)

  • HT5628 How to fix track pad and audio drivers if we install windows 8 on macbook pro??

    Can anyone help me how to install track pad and audio drivers for my MBP if i install windows 8 on it?

    Run Boot Camp Assistant and select the menu option to download the Windows Support software, Then start Windows and install the Windows Support software. Follow the Boot Camp instructions which detail how to download and install the drivers (Windows Support software).

  • Satellite L875D-S7230 Sound problems / drivers won't install

    I've run a PC tech support service for over 10 years so I've tried all the standard fixes to no avail.
    Main problem was after I started using my laptop with an HDMI cable to a projector -- the audio and video worked fine via HDMI, but when I disconnected the HDMI cable the laptop had no audio, and had a red x on the audio symbol in the system tray. Device manager only showed AMD High Definition Audio Device.  Under Playback devices via the Sound icon (yes Disabled and Disconnected Devices are both checked) it only shows the AMD High Def device.  When I reconnect the HDMI, the audio works fine.  Once I thought that not properly "ejecting" the HDMI cable could be the problem, so I used Windows + P to show the Projector menu and selected Computer Only to disconnect the HDMI and then removed the cable and then the laptop audio worked, but that happened several weeks ago, and now after using HDMI again, it's back to no audio.  I've reinstalled  the HDMI audio, but in trying to reinstall the Realtek Audio Drivers shown on the Support page for my model, they won't install - they extract and then when I click to install, the install stops with no error warning, etc. The same with the AMD Display driver (which is supposed to contain the chipset drivers).    I've been through this two hours troubleshooting process twice over the past 6 months and I am done.  Any suggestions are appreciated.  Here's the support page:
    http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=3385539

    Hello , Welcome to the HP Forums, and thanks for posting! I understand you are having some issues re-installing the software for your HP LaserJet Pro M177fw Printer. I'd like to help you with this. First, I would recommend checking your programs to make sure there isn't anything listed for the LaserJet that wasn't uninstalled: Swipe inwards from the right hand side of the desktop (or press Win key + C on the keyboard). The charms bar will pop up on the right hand side of the screen.Select Settings, then Control Panel.Select Programs, then Uninstall a program.Check the list for any software indicating the printer model (select the software and click uninstall if necessary).You'll also want to make sure you have removed all instances of the printer from your devices and printers folder: Follow steps 1 and 2 above to open the Control Panel.Under Hardware and Sound, select Devices and Printers.If you see any icons for your printer, right click and select delete (or remove device).Now let's do a cleanboot of your computer (to make sure another program that is running is not interfering with your installation). You can find the steps to perform a clean boot in this Microsoft document - How to perform a clean boot in Windows Once all of this is complete, run the software install again. Please respond to let me know if we have resolved the issue!Good luck.

  • Z60T Audio drivers won't install.

    I have spent at least 10 hours on this problem, searched the net, searched forums, re-installed Windows a second time after formatting a second time, to no avail.  I have no sound, and Device Manager says the following Drivers are not installed:
    Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus
    Biometric Coprocessor
    Unknown Device
    I don't care about Unknown and Biometric Coprocessor, I think they are fingerprint reader related.  
    But I DO care about having sound, and I'm about to lose my ever loving mind on this.
    Here's what happened:
    We bought this laptop used on Craigslist.  I formatted the hard drive, including the ThinkVantage partition, and installed XP Professional SP2.  I went to the IBM site to download drivers, and that's when all this heppened.  
    I installed the Q888111 patch before installing the drivers. 
    When I installed the drivers, the Soundmax screen came up, and then just sat there, nothing more happened. 
    I then had to force a reboot, and Soundmax showed up in Programs, but when I tried to play a file in WMP 11, it said there was no audio device installed.
    Soundmax showed up in Add/Remove programs, but would not respond to being removed so I could try to reinstall.  I had to manually remove it and run RegCleaner to get rid of it.
    I'm beginning to think my sound device is broken...I have NEVER had this much trouble with a  driver before.
    Another symptom is constant freeze up.  I know I need more RAM, but 512 should be enough to at least run installation.
    Anyone have any ideas?
    Thanks in advance,
    eclayton
    Specs:  
    Mobile Intel Pentium M 1.73 GHz
    80 GB Hard Drive
    512 ddr2 RAM 
    Windows XP Professional SP2
    All the latest updates
    PCTools Spyware Doctor with Anti-Virus
    Diskeeper Premier Professional

    Hi,unstall soundmax and reboot and click this> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-62855  and run 77a224ww.exe after it's done, lookin C:\ drive and locate \drivers\win\audio and reinstall soundmax and reboot. also click this for diagnostic problem pcd5setup.exe  it's alot meg to download But,it will diags your system >  http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-52871
    jcr46385

  • K9A Platinum audio drivers won't install

    I am trying to install the audio drivers for my K9A Platinum off of the cd that came with it and it gets about halfway through and the it says "Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !!" Does anyone know what I could do?

    Well, check all things already mentioned...
    - Bios: onboard sound enabled?
    - clean Windows install;
    - also, you can try the native drivers (not from MSI-website, but from Realtek's)
    @Fredrik: I'm not going to spend time trying to understand Windows. XP is pretty good, but it still can be as stupid as possible... No use digging up the causes, there are too many possibilities that can cause the problems. Also, keep in mind that far most of the people don't get these problems. It looks like everyone has this problem, but that is because this is a tech support forum... people don't get in here to tell us that soemthing is working all right.

  • Dymo Printer shows in Printer list but local drivers cannot be installed

    I connected the Dymo LabelWriter 400 to our PowerMac G5 running OS X Tiger Server via USB, set it up so it printed from the server, then tried to set up client machines. I was never able to install the DLW software from Dymo that enables use of the machine. Print Services have been set up with a queue for the LabelWriter and then switched on.
    On a client machine (Mac mini, OS X Tiger) the Dymo printer can be seen in the Printer list either via Bonjour or by Shared Printers but nothing prints on it because both of these use the Generic Postscript Printer Driver. I tried printing from a simple Text Editor (Text Wrangler) but all that happened was that the printer generated a blank label.
    It seems I cannot install the correct printer driver for the LabelWriter because the printer itself is not connected by USB to the Client machine, and cannot be shared from the server because Tiger server doesn't offer this option, other than through Print Services. When I try to open the DLS software to create a label, the app won't load because it says "it cannot find the printer".
    Any ideas how I can get around this problem? All the Windows PCs on the Network could print to it when it was hosted on a NAS device, but no Macs could.
    TIA
    Message was edited by: Basilisk

    I still haven't found a way aroud this issue. I am thinking that perhaps the Dymo is a GDI printer - could this create any potential problems? What if I try to print via a Print Server such as the Netgear PS-121 or the Apple Base Station or whatever it is called?

  • URGENT Lenovo g550 webcam does not show up in Device Manager and all drivers cannot be installed

    Hello everyone. So my lenovo g550 webcam stopped working after I did a clean install of windows 7 home. When I go under device manager I do not see any unknow devices. When I also go to show hidden devices it is not there. Could anyone give me information about how to fix this and if the cable to the webcam might be broken. If so, is there a way I could convert the webcam's pin outs to usb to test it. I have split an old usb cable into four colored spots. Not sure if i want to test it though. That would be my last resort. If needbe, can you tell me the pin outs for the webcam. It has five connectors. The reason I know this is usb is because my older installation on windows 7 detected it and said that the usb could be faster. Thanks.

    Sorry about that. I've only been a member for a few days. I will remove the post with all Capps. Have a nice day!

  • Satellite P300 and XP - some drivers problems

    Hi there,
    My notebook: Toshiba Satellite P300 PSPC4E!
    I switched from Windows Vista (preinstalled) to Windows XP Pro SERVICE PACK 2, but I got a few drivers problems:
    1. USB-ROOT-DRIVERS cannot be installed.
    Yep this doesn't work. Can't use any USB-Stick and stuff. I installed all drivers from the download page for my Notebook and Win XP for sure.
    2. Mass Storage Drivers cant be installed:
    Errormassage:
    "This Computer doesn't have the Requirements to install this Software (translated)"
    3. No WLAN Drivers from the Driver page work :(
    Thanks for now. Would be nice to get some help.
    Cheers

    > Installed Win XP without SATA drivers, but changed the SATA value in the BIOS to compatibility! Can I update the SATA drivers now? (xp is installed)
    No you cannot install the SATA drivers now because the HDD doesnt run in SATA mode. You changed it in BIOS to compatibility!
    And now; if you would change the mode to SATA then you will get a BSOD and you will have to install XP again. So if SATA is set to compatibility mode -> you dont need to install the SATA drivers
    > There is no WLan hardware found. Nothing :/
    Check this Toshiba WLan page;
    http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/wlan/
    Maybe one of the available WLan drivers will help you

  • A few simple tips and questions. Neo2 system XP re-install, which audio drivers?

    My questions:
    I'm re-installing my XP Pro system because I have decided I don't want to go with a 2GB primary partition as my first partition. Here are my questions.
    1) Should I update from 1.4 to BIOS 1.5 ?
    2) Which audio drivers should I use? nVidia Driver package 4.57? Or the Realtek ALCXXX_73 from nVidia website? Last time I actually accidentally installed the 4.60 audio MCP driver from the nForce 4 standalone package 6.39, but alas the sound was fine. (perhaps a little strange seeing as how my Neo2 is nForce3 and the 4.60 was from the nForce4 package.
    Which audio drivers should I install?
    3) What is nVidia nTune, what can I do with it and should I bother with it?
    4) Which Catalyst driver should I install? The 29.7 MB driver with Catalyst Control Center or the 23.1 MB driver with Control Panel. Whats the difference and should I care?
    I'll be using MSI update, keeping the windows IDE drivers, I may use the "speedfan" program but no digicell and no corecenter.
    thanx,
    My tips, See below:
    0) Do your first install with a minimum of hardware installed (add your PCI cards later)
    1) Research here for the proper BIOS settings for stable first boot and system install.
    -Disable Agressive Timings in BIOS
    -Turn Off NV/ATI Speedup in hidden BIOS
    2) Install XP and SP2
    3) install video drivers
    4) Install nVidia UDP 5.10 (preferably without audio) and don't install the nVidia IDE drivers, just keep the XP drivers. (Use the XP windows IDE drivers) I used the nVidia LAN and it worked fine.
    5) Install Zone Alarm (or your prefered software firewall) and then hook up LAN, preferably behind a router
    6) Windows update once you have internet working
    7) Install AMD Athlon 64 processor driverv1.1.0.18
    8) Install audio drivers

    Thanx 10-4 on that one. I edited my system install to reflect your idea by inserting Zone Alarm install BEFORE connecting to the internet. As an aside, I have a router which our PC's are connected to, so I'm reasonably safe for a few minutes
    Also, I won't really be installing the ATI Catalyst drivers now, as I'm just using a Gforce2 GTS 32MB AGP for now and XP Pro installs perfectly adequate drivers. When I get my card back from ATI I'll install the Catalyst drivers then. I'd still like some advice on which driver to install when I do though
    Anyone have any other tips in regards to my questions?

  • A quick primer on audio drivers, devices, and latency

    This information has come from Durin, Adobe staffer:
    Hi everyone,
    A  common question that comes up in these forums over and over has to do  with recording latency, audio drivers, and device formats.  I'm going to  provide a brief overview of the different types of devices, how they  interface with the computer and Audition, and steps to maximize  performance and minimize the latency inherent in computer audio.
    First, a few definitions:
    Monitoring: listening to existing audio while simultaneously recording new audio.
    Sample: The value of each individual bit of audio digitized by the audio  device.  Typically, the audio device measures the incoming signal 44,100  or 48,000 times every second.
    Buffer Size: The  "bucket" where samples are placed before being passed to the  destination.  An audio application will collect a buffers-worth of  samples before feeding it to the audio device for playback.  An audio  device will collect a buffers-worth of samples before feeding it to the  audio device when recording.  Buffers are typically measured in Samples  (command values being 64, 128, 512, 1024, 2048...) or milliseconds which  is simply a calculation based on the device sample rate and buffer  size.
    Latency: The time span that occurs between  providing an input signal into an audio device (through a microphone,  keyboard, guitar input, etc) and when each buffers-worth of that signal  is provided to the audio application.  It also refers to the other  direction, where the output audio signal is sent from the audio  application to the audio device for playback.  When recording while  monitoring, the overall perceived latency can often be double the device  buffer size.
    ASIO, MME, CoreAudio: These are audio driver models, which simply specify the manner in which an audio application and audio device communicate.  Apple Mac systems use CoreAudio almost exclusively which provides for low buffer sizes and the ability  to mix and match different devices (called an Aggregate Device.)  MME  and ASIO are mostly Windows-exclusive driver models, and provide  different methods of communicating between application and device.  MME drivers allow the operating system itself to act as a go-between and  are generally slower as they rely upon higher buffer sizes and have to  pass through multiple processes on the computer before being sent to the  audio device.  ASIO drivers provide an audio  application direct communication with the hardware, bypassing the  operating system.  This allows for much lower latency while being  limited in an applications ability to access multiple devices  simultaneously, or share a device channel with another application.
    Dropouts: Missing  audio data as a result of being unable to process an audio stream fast  enough to keep up with the buffer size.  Generally, dropouts occur when  an audio application cannot process effects and mix tracks together  quickly enough to fill the device buffer, or when the audio device is  trying to send audio data to the application more quickly than it can  handle it.  (Remember when Lucy and Ethel were working at the chocolate  factory and the machine sped up to the point where they were dropping  chocolates all over the place?  Pretend the chocolates were samples,  Lucy and Ethel were the audio application, and the chocolate machine is  the audio device/driver, and you'll have a pretty good visualization of  how this works.)
    Typically, latency is not a problem if  you're simply playing back existing audio (you might experience a very  slight delay between pressing PLAY and when audio is heard through your  speakers) or recording to disk without monitoring existing audio tracks  since precise timing is not crucial in these conditions.  However, when  trying to play along with a drum track, or sing a harmony to an existing  track, or overdub narration to a video, latency becomes a factor since  our ears are far more sensitive to timing issues than our other senses.   If a bass guitar track is not precisely aligned with the drums, it  quickly sounds sloppy.  Therefore, we need to attempt to reduce latency  as much as possible for these situations.  If we simply set our Buffer  Size parameter as low as it will go, we're likely to experience dropouts  - especially if we have some tracks configured with audio effects which  require additional processing and contribute their own latency to the  chain.  Dropouts are annoying but not destructive during playback, but  if dropouts occur on the recording stream, it means you're losing data  and your recording will never sound right - the data is simply lost.   Obviously, this is not good.
    Latency under 40ms is  generally considered within the range of reasonable for recording.  Some  folks can hear even this and it affects their ability to play, but most  people find this unnoticeable or tolerable.  We can calculate our  approximate desired buffer size with this formula:
    (Sample per second / 1000) * Desired Latency
    So,  if we are recording at 44,100 Hz and we are aiming for 20ms latency:   44100 / 1000 * 20 = 882 samples.  Most audio devices do not allow  arbitrary buffer sizes but offer an array of choices, so we would select  the closest option.  The device I'm using right now offers 512 and 1024  samples as the closest available buffer sizes, so I would select 512  first and see how this performs.  If my session has a lot of tracks  and/or several effects, I might need to bump this up to 1024 if I  experience dropouts.
    Now that we hopefully have a pretty  firm understanding of what constitutes latency and under what  circumstances it is undesirable, let's take a look at how we can reduce  it for our needs.  You may find that you continue to experience dropouts  at a buffer size of 1024 but that raising it to larger options  introduces too much latency for your needs.  So we need to determine  what we can do to reduce our overhead in order to have quality playback  and recording at this buffer size.
    Effects: A  common cause of playback latency is the use of effects.  As your audio  stream passes through an effect, it takes time for the computer to  perform the calculations to modify that signal.  Each effect in a chain  introduces its own amount of latency before the chunk of audio even  reaches the point where the audio application passes it to the audio  device and starts to fill up the buffer.  Audition and other DAWs  attempt to address this through "latency compensation" routines which  introduce a bit more latency when you first press play as they process  several seconds of audio ahead of time before beginning to stream those  chunks to the audio driver.  In some cases, however, the effects may be  so intensive that the CPU simply isn't processing the math fast enough.   With Audition, you can "freeze" or pre-render these tracks by clicking  the small lightning bolt button visible in the Effects Rack with that  track selected.  This performs a background render of that track, which  automatically updates if you make any changes to the track or effect  parameters, so that instead of calculating all those changes on-the-fly,  it simply needs to stream back a plain old audio file which requires  much fewer system resources.  You may also choose to disable certain  effects, or temporarily replace them with alternatives which may not  sound exactly like what you want for your final mix, but which  adequately simulate the desired effect for the purpose of recording.   (You might replace the CPU-intensive Full Reverb effect with the  lightweight Studio Reverb effect, for example.  Full Reverb effect is  mathematically far more accurate and realistic, but Studio Reverb can  provide that quick "body" you might want when monitoring vocals, for  example.)  You can also just disable the effects for a track or clip  while recording, and turn them on later.
    Device and Driver Options: Different  devices may have wildly different performance at the same buffer size  and with the same session.  Audio devices designed primarily for gaming  are less likely to perform well at low buffer sizes as those designed  for music production, for example.  Even if the hardware performs the  same, the driver mode may be a source of latency.  ASIO is almost always  faster than MME, though many device manufacturers do not supply an ASIO  driver.  The use of third-party, device-agnostic drivers, such as  ASIO4ALL (www.asio4all.com) allow you to wrap an MME-only device inside a  faux-ASIO shell.  The audio application believes it's speaking to an  ASIO driver, and ASIO4ALL has been streamlined to work more quickly with  the MME device, or even to allow you to use different inputs and  outputs on separate devices which ASIO would otherwise prevent.
    We  also now see more USB microphone devices which are input-only audio  devices that generally use a generic Windows driver and, with a few  exceptions, rarely offer native ASIO support.  USB microphones generally  require a higher buffer size as they are primarily designed for  recording in cases where monitoring is unimportant.  When attempting to  record via a USB microphone and monitor via a separate audio device,  you're more likely to run into issues where the two devices are not  synchronized or drift apart after some time.  (The ugly secret of many  device manufacturers is that they rarely operate at EXACTLY the sample  rate specified.  The difference between 44,100 and 44,118 Hz is  negligible when listening to audio, but when trying to precisely  synchronize to a track recorded AT 44,100, the difference adds up over  time and what sounded in sync for the first minute will be wildly  off-beat several minutes later.)  You are almost always going to have  better sync and performance with a standard microphone connected to the  same device you're using for playback, and for serious recording, this  is the best practice.  If USB microphones are your only option, then I  would recommend making certain you purchase a high-quality one and have  an equally high-quality playback device.  Attempt to match the buffer  sizes and sample rates as closely as possible, and consider using a  higher buffer size and correcting the latency post-recording.  (One  method of doing this is to have a click or clap at the beginning of your  session and make sure this is recorded by your USB microphone.  After  you finish your recording, you can visually line up the click in the  recorded track with the click in the original track by moving your clip  backwards in the timeline.  This is not the most efficient method, but  this alignment is the reason you see the clapboards in behind-the-scenes  filmmaking footage.)
    Other Hardware: Other  hardware in your computer plays a role in the ability to feed or store  audio data quickly.  CPUs are so fast, and with multiple cores, capable  of spreading the load so often the bottleneck for good performance -  especially at high sample rates - tends to be your hard drive or storage  media.  It is highly recommended that you configure your temporary  files location, and session/recording location, to a physical drive that  is NOT the same as you have your operating system installed.  Audition  and other DAWs have absolutely no control over what Windows or OS X may  decide to do at any given time and if your antivirus software or system  file indexer decides it's time to start churning away at your hard drive  at the same time that you're recording your magnum opus, you raise the  likelihood of losing some of that performance.  (In fact, it's a good  idea to disable all non-essential applications and internet connections  while recording to reduce the likelihood of external interference.)  If  you're going to be recording multiple tracks at once, it's a good idea  to purchase the fastest hard drive your budget allows.  Most cheap  drives spin around 5400 rpm, which is fine for general use cases but  does not allow for the fast read, write, and seek operations the drive  needs to do when recording and playing back from multiple files  simultaneously.  7200 RPM drives perform much better, and even faster  options are available.  While fragmentation is less of a problem on OS X  systems, you'll want to frequently defragment your drive on Windows  frequently - this process realigns all the blocks of your files so  they're grouped together.  As you write and delete files, pieces of each  tend to get placed in the first location that has room.  This ends up  creating lots of gaps or splitting files up all over the disk.  The act  of reading or writing to these spread out areas cause the operation to  take significantly longer than it needs to and can contribute to  glitches in playback or loss of data when recording.

    There is one point in the above that needed a little clarification, relating to USB mics:
    _durin_ wrote:
     If  USB microphones are your only option, then I would recommend making  certain you purchase a high-quality one and have an equally high-quality  playback device.
    If you are going to spend that much, then you'd be better off putting a little more money into an  external device with a proper mic pre, and a little less money by not  bothering with a USB mic at all, and just getting a 'normal' condensor  mic. It's true to say that over the years, the USB mic class of  recording device has caused more trouble than any other, regardless.
    You  should also be aware that if you find a USB mic offering ASIO support,  then unless it's got a headphone socket on it as well then you aren't  going to be able to monitor what you record if you use it in its native  ASIO mode. This is because your computer can only cope with one ASIO device in the system - that's all the spec allows. What you can do with most ASIO hardware though is share multiple streams (if the  device has multiple inputs and outputs) between different software.
    Seriously, USB mics are more trouble than they're worth.

  • No audio output device is installed - Satellite C855D-S5950 - Windows 8 64-bit

    Toshiba laptop
    Model: Satellite C855D-S5950
    P/N: PSCBQU-03G03E
    OS: Windows 8 64bit
    RAM: 4GB.
    Hello,
    I have my friend’s Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5950 with Windows 8 (64bit) that about a year old.  Some months ago the sound stopped working.  He asked me to take a look at it.  I have researched this issue and found others have encountered his problem as well. 
    Currently, the sound icon has a red x, “No audio output device is installed.”
    Things I have tried so far to try to fix this:
    I went to the Device Manager > Sound, video and game controllers. I have "Realtek High Definition Audio" listed with the little yellow caution icons on them. I have tried to disable, then enable it.  I have tried to uninstall the sound driver from the Device Manager.  I would restart the laptop, and let the driver reinstall itself, to no effect. I have tried downloading the latest drivers from the Toshiba website. I have tried un-installing the driver while in safe mode from the Device Manager.  As well as from Programs and Features.   There were no positive change to the audio though, still the same message. The Realtek driver won't finish installing and throws the error: "Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure!! [Error Code: 0x000000FF]"
    I have gone to Control Panel > Sound, under both the Playback and Recording tabs, it says "No audio devices are installed."
    My friend was previously unaware of how to restart or shut down his Windows 8 laptop (as was I until I started investigating this problem for him).  I mention this because there are no useful System Restore points to go back to for him.
    I have also tried Using the Toshiba Application Installer as well to re-install the driver after un-installing the Realtek Audio driver from Add/Remove Programs.  I went to Desktop Assist >Support Recovery > Toshiba Application Installer.
    Realtek Audio Driver 6.0.1.6743
    It loads most of the way then I get:
    "Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure!! [Error Code: 0x000000FF]"
    I have also tried the following links for additional troubleshooting:
    http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound-Knowledge-Base/Windows-8-Troubleshoot-no-sound-with-Windows...
    http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound-Knowledge-Base/No-sound-from-speakers-or-headphones/ta-p/27...
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/no-sound-help#no-sound=windows-7&v1h=win8tab1&v2h=win7tab...
    http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound/No-Sound-quot-No-Audio-Output-Device-is-installed-quot-Tosh...
    It was also suggested in the above thread I remove the Microsoft UAA Driver, but could not find this driver on my friend’s system.
    Plugging in headphones, toggling the speaker volume controls on the keyboard has had no effect.
    My friend has also misplaced his install discs, so I am looking for any solution which does not require the install discs.
    Any help would greatly be appreciated.
    Toshiba laptop
    Model: Satellite C855D-S5950
    P/N: PSCBQU-03G03E
    OS: Windows 8 64bit
    RAM: 4GB.
    Thanks in advance.
    -Tre

    Recovery media is created from the hard drive. You can make it using Toshiba Recovery Media Creator. You can also perform a full system reset to factory defaults using the information on the hard drive without using external recovery media. That sounds like the best course of action now. To do so, use Windows+C > Settings > Power > SHIFT + Restart > Troubleshoot > Reset your PC.
    - Peter

  • Problems with the latest Windows 7 Conexant HD Audio Drivers For WIndows 7

    Hi,
    I have a Toshiba Satellite P305-S8997E with the Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 211 speakers. I have recently upgraded with the Windows 7 32/64-bit audio drivers posted within the last week in the Drivers section, and have had a few problems with them. Namely that whenever I listen to music (and etc), the volume is fairly low, and even when the speaker AND media player (Foobar, FYI) volumes are cranked, they flucuate, and eventually end up being much lower than they should. Is there any fix to this? I recently downgraded to the last Vista 64-bit drivers for them and that has ended the volume problem, but it doesn't sound as good as it should to my ears. Any help is appreciated.
    Also, this computer is only about two months old, and this problem hasn't surfaced until very lately, so I doubt it's something like the speakers going out or anything.

    Windows 7 is still a PRE-RELEASE OS until the OFFICIAL release date of October 22nd.  Toshiba and other manufacturers are still working on their drivers and may not have fully functioning drivers until then.  My advice is be patient and wait for them to get all of the bugs out.
    If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

  • Where Do Audio drivers Reside ?

    is there a folder? reason being i have to remove older audio drivers but cannot seem to find where their at
    thanks

    Drivers can typically be found in /System/Library/Extensions

Maybe you are looking for

  • Boot Camp, Vista, and Half-Life 2 Episode 2

    I am trying to run Episode 2 on my Mac Pro. When I first tried to launch the program it told me I needed to update the Nvidia 7300 graphics driver, or I could continue with the old driver. I'm thinking now I should have at least tried it with my orig

  • Where to find API documentation on massage handling from Email to PDA?

    Where to find API documentation on massage handling from Email to PDA? and vice versa..?

  • IMac 24" humming

    My 24" make the humming sound from the monitor. When i lower the brightness the sound become louder but even at 100% of brightness this hum is still noticeable (easy way to test is wait for the standby of the screen, in this way you realize that the

  • Why doesn't af:switcher have PartialTrigger attribute?

    Hi OTN, af:switcher is definitely one of the most dynamically changed "layout" component. And I'm really surprised not to find PartialTrigger attribute for the switcher. Why doesn't it have the attribute? I need to enclose it into additionaal contain

  • I lost my imac remote, how can i replace it?

    Does my protection plan cover lost remotes? Do I have to buy a new one?