I totally agree, in my case I changed out hard drives and moved all my files over and this is when this happened to me, I got lucky in the fact that it was succesfully repaired without losing any data. audio source(s) with any audio application(s) in an easy way with unparalleled control on sound quality. Mostly, constant wiping and reinstalling is just a stupid hackshop (ala bestbuy) answer for everything, because of laziness or economic pressure not to spend time understanding the problem. Install Voicemeeter Banana on your Windows PC. It shows a weakness in the knowledgebase, or framework that everything is hanged upon. Just reformatting and reinstalling windows is a bit like bulldozing/rebuilding a house to fix a roof leak that a good roofer could fix in 15 minutes. It may be a reg, sys file, or surround sound issue. Double-click Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Unstalling/reinstalling drivers doesn't fix. Click Start Control Panel Performance and Maintenance System Hardware Device Manager. Still no sound, no mixer device, no irqĬonflicts, no sign that the devices are not working inĭevice manager. I've changed motherboards, too as a precaution.-No I've calledĬreative, and was told it is a Microsoft problem. Only, I've tried installing 3 sound cards with their Two more brand new cards of different manufacturers, I had two sound cards that worked before for years, then nothing. My mixer just disappeared one morning with no sound on bootup, after years of working fine. I too have this issue!! No luck with repair option. I had the same problem, and I fixed it by using the win xp disk and using the repair option. I'm still open for good suggestions on what to try next. IRQ 22 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter OK IRQ 22 Standard OpenHCD USB-vertskontroller OK IRQ 21 OHCI-kompatibel IEEE 1394-vertskontroller OK IRQ 21 Standard OpenHCD USB-vertskontroller OK IRQ 20 Standard utvidet PCI til USB-vertskontroller OK IRQ 10 NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-kompatibelt system OK The IRQ-list looks like this (I don't know if it's helpful):

I/U-port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB RADEON 9200 My mom accidentally deleted something out of xp where the small speaker for the volume control icon has disappeared. I/U-port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge Minneadresse 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge IRQ 22 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter IRQ 22 Standard OpenHCD USB-vertskontroller IRQ 21 OHCI-kompatibel IEEE 1394-vertskontroller IRQ 21 Standard OpenHCD USB-vertskontroller I/U-port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge I/U-port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Kontroller for direkte minnetilgang (DMA) No warnings or error messages that I can detect.

I have now run msinfo32 and looked for conflicts.

Windows xp volume control