No audio device

Kenny 94 did an awesome job of helping me get rid of the dreaded av security suite. But now, I have no sound. My sound card is a creative labs sb X-fi fatality 1 card. I have a dual boot rig, and the card worked fine in XP before the virus. now I've reloaded the most current driver, device manager says it's working properly, but no sound. when I open sounds and audio devices in control panel it says no audio device...

The card works fine in Vista 64, (which wasn't infected) and still does so it's not hardware related.

Can someone help me again please???

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Anybody??? I'm desperate for sound.

Hi, please give me product name of your motherboard.

Asus Rampage II Extreme socket 1366

Hi, lets try with this first. Visit THIS link and click on Download.

Restart computer after installing.

I get an error message saying HDA audio bus driver is needed and is not found.

1. Go to Start > Run and type regedit.
   
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows\CDSVersion
   
3. Change the value of the CSDVersion - Dword and give it the value 200.
   

Try to install your driver again, you should not get the error this time. Once installed, restart your computer and restore the registry key back to 300.

You should have sound now.

I changed the value to 200 and the install still failed with the same error message.

Hi,
Lets try different solution. Go to Device Manager and press right click on yellow marked component than click on Update Driver. Let your computer to use Windows Update to find driver and press Next button. (You have to enable Automatic Updates first!)

none of my sound devices have yellow marks or conflicts. my creative driver, infact all of my drivers say they are working correctly.

If you don't have anything important on your computer, i suggest to reinstall your Windows.

the hard way:

1. reloaded XP
2. updated to SP3
3. loaded sound driver, all's ok.