crazyamy71 Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 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!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disk4mat Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 In your situation, re-installing the sound driver may be the easiest/safest way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyamy71 Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyamy71 Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 There's also no errors showing in the device manager.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyamy71 Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 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...." Huh? So now what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireryone Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 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 fireryone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyamy71 Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 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!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireryone Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Glad to be of help, some things are just bad timing fireryone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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