audio problems

Windows XP Hardware >> audio problems Had to re-install WinXP (not upgrade) and have lost my audio somewhere along the line
I went to play Winamp and this is the msg i get
"Erro
A device ID has been used that is out of range for your system
This happens on any wav. midi. etc. files
I've gone into my device manager and really not sure which audio driver I'm after
I have "Creative AudioPCI(ES1371,ES1373)(WDM)" which seems to look like is working properly....what it tells me in the properties anyways.(don't think this is what i want anyways...but ,like i said...not sure
And i also have" Legacy Audio drivers".....in which case I have 2 of the
One of them has information on the drivers in the drivers tab....the other doesn't have anything in the drivers tab whatsoever
Both, in the general tab, gives me no options in the "device usage:"
I'm thinking one of these i don't need, but not sure . Neither gives me the option to disable or delete

I have no volume control in my taskbar. When i boot up... i do get the windows start up tune

I've tried to find out what i can do, but the only thing i could actually find was something about re-installing windows and that the registry didn't change( or something like that) and that plug n play wouldn't go looking for my audio devices again. (make sense? this came from a windows 98 user

I've gone to a drivers website and really have no clue as to what I should be downloading etc
would be greatly appreciated if someone could point me in the right direction

Thanx
Be

Windows XP835

Windows XP Hardware >> audio problems Please try SoundBlaster Live. It is more reliable in both WinXP and Win2k.
Your card has been known to be unstable.

> I have "Creative AudioPCI(ES1371,ES1373)(WDM)" which seems to look like is
working properly....what it tells me in the properties anyways.(don't think
this is what i want anyways...but ,like i said...not sure)
> And i also have" Legacy Audio drivers".....in which case I have 2 of them
> One of them has information on the drivers in the drivers tab....the other
doesn't have anything in the drivers tab whatsoever.
> Both, in the general tab, gives me no options in the "device usage:"
> I'm thinking one of these i don't need, but not sure . Neither gives me
the option to disable or delete.
>
> I have no volume control in my taskbar. When i boot up... i do get the
windows start up tune.
>
> I've tried to find out what i can do, but the only thing i could actually
find was something about re-installing windows and that the registry didn't
change( or something like that) and that plug n play wouldn't go looking for
my audio devices again. (make sense? this came from a windows 98 user)
>
> I've gone to a drivers website and really have no clue as to what I should
be downloading etc.
> would be greatly appreciated if someone could point me in the right
direction.
>
> Thanx,
> Ben
>
>

Windows XP Hardware >> audio problems Alexis wrote:

> Please try SoundBlaster Live. It is more reliable in both WinXP and Win2k.
> Your card has been known to be unstable.
>
>
>>I have "Creative AudioPCI(ES1371,ES1373)(WDM)" which seems to look like is
>
> working properly....what it tells me in the properties anyways.(don't think
> this is what i want anyways...but ,like i said...not sure)
>
>>And i also have" Legacy Audio drivers".....in which case I have 2 of them
>>One of them has information on the drivers in the drivers tab....the other
>
> doesn't have anything in the drivers tab whatsoever.
>
>>Both, in the general tab, gives me no options in the "device usage:"
>>I'm thinking one of these i don't need, but not sure . Neither gives me
>
> the option to disable or delete.
>
>>I have no volume control in my taskbar. When i boot up... i do get the
>
> windows start up tune.
>
>>I've tried to find out what i can do, but the only thing i could actually
>
> find was something about re-installing windows and that the registry didn't
> change( or something like that) and that plug n play wouldn't go looking for
> my audio devices again. (make sense? this came from a windows 98 user)
>
>>I've gone to a drivers website and really have no clue as to what I should
>
> be downloading etc.
>
>>would be greatly appreciated if someone could point me in the right
>
> direction.
>
>>Thanx,
>>Ben
>>
>>
>
>
>
I just went thru that about 2 hours ago.

Reinstalled XP, but had no sound.

Called my computer store tech and he advised me to go to the Sound card
web page to get drivers of the sound card. My download was
Realtek_Sound.exe and it was a 19079kb. Hope you have cable or dsl if
you have to do this.

Installed the drivers and everything works great now.

If you can find your original disk, it might be easier.

Hope this helps.

Ben too