I recently ran the registry cleaner, and now I no longer have sound. I tried double clicking the backup file and importing into the registry through the editor however I keep getting an "error accessing the registry". I am even in administrator mode. I also tried restoring from a system restore point. No change in my lack of sound. I am running XP if this makes any difference. I've opened the file in notepad and thought about editing the registry manually but I have no idea how to do this and I definitely don't want to screw it up.
I feel like pulling my hair out at this point. PLEASE HELP!!!
In your situation, re-installing the sound driver may be the easiest/safest way to go.
hmmm... Not sure what to do about that. I disabled the onboard sound long ago because it wouldn't work properly. (motherboard ECS K7VMM+ 3.1, AC97, apparently a common issue) I'm using plug and play speakers. I forget how I even did all of that and I lost my contact that helped me through it... ![:(]()
There's also no errors showing in the device manager....
Okay, so I have a Soundblaster ct4830 and tried installing the drivers. This is what I got...
"Setup could not detect any Soundblaster Audio card on your system...." ![:blink:]()
Huh? So now what?
My SB card was doing the same thing for a while.
Is the card actually listed in device manager (mine would disappear like it was never there)
I had to unplug it and re-seat the card never directly linked the issue with a CC clean though, as the issue seems to have gone away since using win7
OMG!! I think I love you! That fixed everything!! Why didn't I think of something so simple??? It happened right after I did the registry clean so I had attributed it to that. Boy was I WRONG!
THANK YOU!!!! ![:D]()
Glad to be of help, some things are just bad timing ![:)]()