NO SOUND!

I wouldn't normally suggest this but have you tried looking at the support page of the manufacturer of your soundcard oe emailing support. I ended up having to do that once when a driver refused to install.
What soundcard is it?

Hello all, my first post here. I've been googling everywhere trying to find an answer. I have exactly the same problem here with my Sony VAIO VGN-A115Z laptop. This is absoultely frustrating because i have been researching hours and hours just looking for a solution (I usually find a solution to most hardware problems within 15 mins).

The specification of my laptop is:
http://www.vaio-link.com/specifications ... s.asp?l=en

I believe no one has found the answer to this yet. I reckon it's something to do with Microsoft's drivers not working properly with Realtek's.

Again, just like 7NA's problem, I can hear sound with WinAmp but cannot listen to MIDI or play WAV files. The windows sound icon does not appear in the task bar (even though I set it to go there). Perhaps there a registry error? Could somebody please find a fix.

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2, currently using AC97 driver 5.10.0.60.30. My AC97 Codec is ALC203. First of all, I'm going to try reinstall DirectX 9.0c - wish me good luck!

just re-installed DirectX - no luck!

I'm stumped. I would try installing the Mega Codec Pack (http://www.codecguide.com/download_mega.htm) but I don't know if that will help.

I'm afraid it doesn't help

I'd steer clear of the codec packs. I've had trouble and I've seen lots of people having trouble with them. Try this:
1. Download the latest drivers for your soundcard from the manufacturer's website.
2. Unplug all network connections(even ICS where the other computer is not plugged in)
3. Uninstall the previous drivers and reinstall the new ones.

I had a similar problem while back with a Fortissimo 3 card where I had a network set up where my computer connected to another which had ICS set up on a modem(a very slow modem) and yet when I tried to update drivers it wouldn't work. The support person suggested I unplug the network cables as he said it might be updating(still beats me how it managed that.. Seeing as it took about 20-30 mins to download 1 megabyte). Worked perfectly after that.

I installed all the stuff before even buying a modem card, and yet, I never heard the windows start-up tunes, which leads me to believe, that either the sound card is no compatible with windows XP or I'm just a guy with very very bad luck, meh. Also, I think I need to mention it, thought this is the windows forum, I run linux on this computer too. So far, all of linux sound applications run fine, but it really bothers me that I do have the option to set any midi driver I have installed, but anytime I re-open the window it's blank.

darudey, I'd like to know if your pinball game has sound. I had no luck installing another midi driver, or re-installing the manufacturer drivers, they even have an automatic scanning/updating utility that updates the old drivers, and yet the problem persists. mciseq.dll is as far as I can track the problem, it's in the multimedia drivers section under sound, video and games tab in the device manager.

check to see if your kmixer driver service is running. do this by opening a command prompt and typing "sc query kmixer". if it is running, it's state will be 4 (running). if it is not running, check to see if it is disabled by typing "sc qc kmixer". By default, this service should be set to 3 (DEMAND_START). If it is set to anything else, type "sc config kmixer start= demand" to change it's startup type. Reboot and see if that works.

I had exactly the same "Microsoft Kernel Wav Driver" error, with an enabled, but non-working (yellow exclamation mark). I tried to restore to a previous time --- the system couldn't restore to the restore point, but the sound returned!

Check to see if:

Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator is listed under System Devices in Device Manager. If it's missing and have no sound follow the directions on the following website to fix it.. worked for me.

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1066427444

I take no credit for coming up with this solution... but I certainly will try and point people in the right direction.

Happy computing!

Tinkerz

Thank you for this!
I had the exact same problem as the OP and found this through google - now my sound is back

I have the same onboard sound card as ImpfctWld and i am also getting the same message. Anyone know what i can do to fix this?

My case is i cant hear ANY sound from anywhere. no winamp, no startup sound, no sound in games nadda. I've tried installing the AC'97 driver and no luck. In the device manager i also have an error on the Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer.




i tried doing this. the State was = 1. i tried to run the next command and got this response:
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS.

then i restart my comp.... and no sound. So is this part of my problem or not?

http://group.zol.com.cn/frmView.php?u=h ... _7372.html

try this !
it works !

right check → renew driver → from list → next → none-search → next → next

done!