okay I'm getting this message when I click properties for

my sound card.  This happened after I upgraded to from XP

to SP2.  The driver is the correct driver and everything

in the Device Manager looks fine.  Now if I go into

Control Panel, Sound and Audio Devices it says "No Audio

Device", everything in the tabs is greyed out.  But the

the Device Manager, I see that the driver is there.

Please dont tell me that I dont have the right drivers

because I have the latest WDM drives for the sound cards I

tried.  My guess is its a registry or driver problem that

got corrupted in the upgrade.  A lot of people have been

having this problem, as I have been searching over the

internet.



I know this is an XP problem because I did it with 3

different sound cards and they all had the same problem.

For some reason "the drivers are enabled not started".  I

have an Aureal Vortex 8830 in there now, previous to that

I tried putting Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI 128 and

ESS sound card too.  This is a problem known throughout

the internet.  Somebody help me.  Reply to me here or

email.  Thanks.

	
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				Originally posted by Raul Rey Aso 

okay I'm getting this message when I click properties for

my sound card.  This happened after I upgraded to from XP

to SP2.  The driver is the correct driver and everything

in the Device Manager looks fine.  Now if I go into

Control Panel, Sound and Audio Devices it says "No Audio

Device", everything in the tabs is greyed out.  But the

the Device Manager, I see that the driver is there.

Please dont tell me that I dont have the right drivers

because I have the latest WDM drives for the sound cards I

tried.  My guess is its a registry or driver problem that

got corrupted in the upgrade.  A lot of people have been

having this problem, as I have been searching over the

internet.



I know this is an XP problem because I did it with 3

different sound cards and they all had the same problem.

For some reason "the drivers are enabled not started".  I

have an Aureal Vortex 8830 in there now, previous to that

I tried putting Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI 128 and

ESS sound card too.  This is a problem known throughout

the internet.  Somebody help me.  Reply to me here or

email.  Thanks. 
			
		
	
	
I had a similar sounding problem on my Windows 2000 box.  My guess is that the same problem exists in Windows XP.  My sound card stopped working.  The Device Manager showed the status: "Driver is enabled but has not been started".  Uninstalling and re-installing the driver mad no difference.  There were not IRQ conflicts. I found a program that worked directly with the sound card hardware and the sound card was working, but nothing that used the sound card drivers worked.  I tried all of the possible solutions posted on the internet at this time and none of them worked.  Of course, re-installing the OS was a solution that I'm sure would work, but it was too drastic of a solution for me to want to implement.



============================================

Here's the solution that worked for me:



I went into the boot.ini file and add the /BOOTLOG option.   After rebooting I looked and the NTBTLOG.txt file and saw the following:



Did not load driver Audio Codecs

Did not load driver Legacy Audio Drivers

Did not load driver Media Control Devices

Did not load driver Legacy Video Capture Devices

Did not load driver Video Codecs

Did not load driver Creative SB Live! Basic (WDM)

Did not load driver Creative Game Port



That gave me the clue that the problem really is that my sound drivers really weren't loading even though the driver status "Driver is enabled but not started" gives you the impression that they did load.  A more percise message might have been "The device has a driver associated with it, but the driver did not load".



NOTE: If you are not getting the same results from this first test then the solution that follows is probably not going to work for you.



I then went back into boot.ini and removed the /fastdetect option.  I left the /bootlog option still inplace.  After rebooting I once again looked at the NTBTLOG.txt file and noticed that the drivers that use to not load, were now loading again.  I think the sound card was still not working at this time.  (I really didn't check)



I then uninstalled the sound card drivers and rebooted. The driver automatically re-installed.  I went into the Device Manager and low and behold my sound card was no longer saying "Driver is enabled but has not been started" but rather "driver is enabled and functioning properly".  I tried my sound card and it was once again working.



My speculation is that the /fastdetect boot option leaves the system in some kind of state which is not repaired by a driver uninstall and re-install.  Who would have thunk it! I certainly don't know how my system got into that state in the first place.  It took a long time to come up with this solution.  Hope this is the solution your looking for!  From my research on the internet, I'm under the impression that many people are experiencing this same problem.

Ok here, goes nothing, I’ve been at this for what feels like day and have had not luck resolving it so…if you could help!



System Info



Win XP Pro Sp2 (Version: 2002)

256 Ram

900 Mhz Duron Processor

Creative 4.1 Digital Sound Card (Model CT4750)



Problem



I’ve got no sound, ever since installing this WinXP Sp2 over WinXP Sp1 AND THEN using Microsoft Update to update the driver.  



The strange thing is that the sound as far as Windows is concerned the soundcard is installed – device manager says it is enabled and working.



 See Attachment "illlustrations.jpg" "device ok"





But…if I go into Properties, and select the properties for the devices shown…it tells me that the driver is enabled but not started.

 See Attachment "illlustrations.jpg" "driver not started"



I have…



•	(re)Installed the correct drivers (indeed the ones I got off update are correct anyway)



and 



•	Tried out the solution post here: http://www.mcse.ms/archive61-2004-11-1069682.html 



It didn’t work, but then neither did I get the same message regarding which drivers were not working, when I looked at my boot log the following drivers had not loaded:



	Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\lbrtfdc.SYS

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Sfloppy.SYS

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\i2omgmt.SYS

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Changer.SYS

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Cdaudio.SYS

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\PCIDump.SYS

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wdmaud.sys

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mrxsmb.sys

Did not load driver \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys



None of these are the drivers listed under the driver details page:

 

 See Attachment "illustrations.jpg" "driver details"





As the following excerpts form DX Diagnostics show, the computer is able to recognise the Game controller on my sound card, but not any audio elements:





-------------

Sound Devices

-------------

Description: 

Default Sound Playback: No

Default Voice Playback: No

Hardware ID: 

Manufacturer ID: 

Product ID: 

Type: 

Driver Name: 

Driver Version: 

Driver Attributes: 

WHQL Logo'd: 

Date and Size: 

Other Files: 

Driver Provider: 

HW Accel Level: Emulation Only

Cap Flags: 0x0

Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0

Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0

Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0

HW Memory: 0

Voice Management: No

EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No

I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No

Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Registry: OK

Sound Test Result: Not run



---------------------

Sound Capture Devices

---------------------

-----------

DirectMusic

-----------

DLS Path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\GM.DLS

DLS Version: 1.00.0016.0002

Acceleration: n/a

Ports: Microsoft Synthesizer, Software (Not Kernel Mode), Output, DLS, Internal, Default Port

Registry: OK

Test Result: Not run

 



----------------

Gameport Devices

----------------

+ PCI bus

| Matching Device ID: *pnp0a03

| Service: pci

| Driver: pci.sys, 8/4/2004 02:07:00, 68224 bytes

| 

+-+ Standard Game Port

| | Matching Device ID: *pnpb02f

| | Service: gameenum

| | Driver: gameenum.sys, 8/4/2004 02:07:00, 10624 bytes

| 

+ Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM)

| Location: PCI bus 0, device 9, function 0

| Matching Device ID: pci\ven_1274&dev_5880

| Service: es1371

| Driver: ksuser.dll, 8/4/2004 00:56:44, 4096 bytes

| Driver: ksproxy.ax, 8/4/2004 00:56:58, 130048 bytes

| Driver: ks.sys, 8/3/2004 23:15:22, 140928 bytes

| Driver: drmk.sys, 8/3/2004 23:08:00, 60288 bytes

| Driver: portcls.sys, 8/3/2004 23:15:50, 145792 bytes

| Driver: stream.sys, 8/3/2004 23:08:04, 48640 bytes

| Driver: wdmaud.drv, 8/4/2004 00:56:58, 23552 bytes

| Driver: es1371mp.sys, 6/3/2002 11:18:32, 40832 bytes

| 

+-+ Game Port for Creative 

| | Matching Device ID: *ctl7001

| | Service: gameenum

| | Driver: gameenum.sys, 8/4/2004 02:07:00, 10624 bytes





Any thoughts?



Any more info needed?



Cheers in advance guys!