navyjax2 Wrote:
> I had this issue and thought I'd see if anyone had a quick fix. When I
> found a lot of people having this issue with no solution, I used my
> knowledge of XP and the registry and made my own.
>
> I posted this here in case someone else has this issue and stumbles
> upon this and wants information in a concise format rather than having
> to read a whole forum thread like that link pointed to in the other
> post, and also wants to know how to get rid of this altogether rather
> than just the superficial fix that other forum had, so here goes:
>
> *Background*: This error occurs after trying to uninstall the updated
> C-Media AC'97 onboard sound driver that appears after upgrading to XP
> SP2 and/or going to WindowsUpdate. Likely the driver didn't work, so
> you tried uninstalling the driver and were going to put back the old
> Realtek AC'97 driver, but couldn't get rid of the updated driver.
>
> *To fix:* Go ahead and do the deletion of cmaudio from the registry
> that the other post had (Start, Run, type in "regedit", no quotes),
> from
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
>
> Click on the top computer icon in the Registry Editor to highlight it
> (so that it will do a complete search of the registry and not just from
> your present point forward), do a Find (Ctrl+F) and find and delete all
> _KEYS_ related to *-cmaudio*- and *-C-Media*-, not just the string
> entries, _except_ for that entry in the Run key I mentioned above, just
> delete the cmaudio -string- for that one.
>
> Download this remove utility from
>
> http://ekiis.com/Freesoft/binary/remove11.zip
>
> and run the file you find in the zip file - it can be ran without
> extracting it from the zip.
>
> -- *NOTE:* This utility is for taking the name out of the Add/Remove
> Programs section -_only_-, and does not remove it from your computer,
> but it is very useful for issues like this when we are MANUALLY
> uninstalling a program to take it out of the Programs list and should
> work in 98/ME/2000/XP.
>
> Delete these files from the C:\Windows\System32 directory (or "System"
> directory for Win98)
>
> cmirmdrv.exe
> cmirmdrv.dll
> cmuda.dll
>
> Delete everything you can readily delete in C:\Temp,
> C:\WINDOWS\prefetch (XP only), C:\WINDOWS\Temp, and C:\Documents and
> Settings\%YourName%\Local Settings\Temp (2000 and XP only), so that
> there will not be any files left for it to try to recover the driver
> from. You will likely have to leave things that start with hsperfdata_
> and Perflib_Perfdata_***.dat files if you find them, but should be able
> to delete most others without changing attributes.
>
> Now open the Device Manager (Right-click "My Computer", hit "Manage",
> then find Device Manager in the Computer Management console).
> Right-click the C-Media WDM driver under Sound, video, and game
> controllers, hit Uninstall. Then right-click the top computer icon
> listed there with your hostname beside it, hit "Scan for hardware
> changes". It should install a generic "Multimedia Audio Controller"
> instead of the "C-Media WDM Audio Driver", though you might see that
> C-Media Audio for just an instant before it reverts back to a generic
> driver (if it stays, you'll have to go back through the registry again,
> delete the system files again, and do a full search of your hard drive
> for those files so they don't get re-copied again). From here you can
> 'download your specific Realtek AC'97 Audio Driver'
> (http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/companies/891.htm) or use your
> motherboard's installation CD to re-install and you should have sound
> again.
>
> Good luck.
I followed your advice. It didn't work.
I still have no audio.
Can you tell me why?
Thanks
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