hai friends i have a doubt ?few days back i got a problem ,When i m open the windows media player to play the movie its displays this messege "connot play back the audio stream:no audio hardware is availablef"i downloaded the soundcard drivers once again and while instaletion its asking the put the creative cd in the cd-drive.when ever i format the system i never instal the sound card drivers through cd,i just downloaded and installed.every time its works.but now its not working,but its taken the drivers i checked in the system properties-device manager.its displays also a mess some thing like this(AudioHQ)No audio device that is compatible with this application can be found.Reinstall the card and run the installation package again.Now i formated the system till now i did'nt installed the sound card drivers.b.coz when i checked in the device manager it displays the 2 yellow marked icon on 1 is PCI input controller & 2 is PCI multimedia audio device .wht is mean by PCI input conreoller i think its not detected the audio card plz help me ant this topic.Is any he or she be appreciated.

Previous post. The 'PCI multimedia audio device' is your sound card. Installing the drivers for it should set the card up properly. Windows Media Player should work then too. The 'PCI input controller' is probably another hardware item that 98 doesn't recognize. It may be a modem, NIC card, USB card or even a motherboard item. You may be able to determine exactly what it is by seeing which of your known hardware items are already identified in device manager. Once you figure that out, installing the correct drivers should set it up too.

The PCI input device is probably the joystick controller that is part of your sound card. Installing the soundcard drivers will also fix this.

Hey all I have the same problem and i reinstalled everything and i still keep getting the unknow device "PCI Input Controller". Now what should I do?

Update your chipset drivers if necessary. Unfortunately windows doesn't give a very detailed explanation of this 'PCI input controller' so it's hard to know exactly what it's referring to. Other than that just make sure you have all the drivers installed for your various hardware items.