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No Sound availablel in XP

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by krke

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I have a clean install of XP Pro. My sound card is Creative's Sound Blaster Live Platinum. Last week, upon returning from a trip, I discovered I could not get any audio from my speakers when I attempted to play a CD or select a piece from my musiclibrary. MusicMatch Jukebox Plus and Creative's SB Live Play center, and Win Media will not produce music. I receive an error that another app is using the card, or there is no card installed. I have yanked the drivers and reinstalled them to no avail. Additionally, I found the following error codes: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system. Task manager indicates nothing is running in the background. Help/

krke

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by thechas

You can try the following:

Remove the sound card from device manager,

Shut down, and physically remove the sound card,

Boot up.

Download the latest version of the driver from Creative. and extract the files from the archive.

Shut down.

Replace the sound card,

Boot up, and direct the new hardware wizard to the folder where the Creative driver files are.

If that does not work, I suggest that you repost this question in the Technical Q&A forum.

More users will see it there, and you should get a faster response.

Another advantage of the Q&A forum, is that you get e-mail notification when answers are posted.

Chas

by omie

Chas is right in his advice...but I would like to add one more point to look at... and that is when you are going to put back the sound card use a different PCI slot. In doing that, as if you are totally installling a new hardware and it eliminates the resource problem or wrong driver at the windows registry.
If you are using a EISA card, it would be better to buy a new soundcard for newer version of windows in not friendly to those cards.

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