Hi, I have a strange audio problem in XP. Up to yesterday my card (a standard SB PCI 128, type CT4810) worked fine. But when I force-installed some older drivers for my TV-tuner card (miro pctv), my sound card stopped working: device manager -> sound driver -> general: 'This device is working properly' device manager -> sound driver -> properties -> audio devices: 'Driver is enabled but has not been started' I checked the windows services: Windows Audio is on automatic. And tasklist /svc on the cmd told me that the Audio service is running (and so are the other services it needes). Tried reinstalling the audio drivers, removing the tvcard and reinstalling the audio drivers, moving the soundboard to another PCI slot an reinstalling the audio drivers. Nothing worked. Then I removed every device in the device manager, rebooted, and reinstalled everything. Didn't help either. Finally I tried reinstalling Windows (just an update, 'cause I cannot format my machine, have some deadlines to keep), which didn't help either. I'm certain it's not a hardware problem 'cause the card still works fine in Debian... And I can't use the system recovery feature, which I disabled because I was getting low on diskspace and out of cd's to backup... Any ideas? Tia, Tsjoert

i had a similar problem (although where you had no sound, i had everything sounding like chipmunks after i installed a plugin). Like you, I tried re-installing audio drivers, uninstalling the program that had the plugin, and even tried re-installing windows. None of them helped. I even tried uninstalling the audio drivers and try to have XP detect it and use its built-in drivers. no luck. I tried re-installing the audio drivers after reinstalling XP, though, and it finally worked (don't know why it didn't do it before). hope you get it working...i know how bad it sucks not having audio

I think i tried just about everything except formatting and reinstalling... Thanks for the reply