The driver has been enabled but has not been started

The resolution I did was adding back the system device and Plug and Play Software Enumerator

Jurekos,

You are a godsend. I've literally been up for over 24 hours (of my own volition of course), been to countless websites, blogs, blurbs, forums, Microsoft Support chat (yes, I even tried there.) and had absolutely no luck... That is until I found this here post... (I think I even stopped here at Techspot, Though I wasn't using the same keywords for my search.) You're PnP Software Enumerator literally made my day/previous night worth while... Thank you....

Holy Cow! After running windows update on Saturday, I spent the last 4 nights after work trying to fix my sagetv dvr. The Below solution finally fixed my problem. VirtualAudio, All I have to say is you rock like white snake! I wish anyone else who has this problem luck in fixing it, it made my life a nightmare Backup your file system, create restore points and don't run a bulk windows update!


"MY problem was solved this way:
First I suggest everyone to create a System Restore point to have something to return
in case of something goes wrong. You can boot XP to safe mode by pressing F8 at the
beginning of the Windows startup and select Safe Mode if the system doesn’t start
in normal mode and use System Restore there to go back to the working configuration.

Then try these steps only if the others mentioned here don’t help. I had everything
ok in Device Manager and every driver was running that should, compared to an other
working system, but the symptom was that there was no sound coming out from the sound
card. Everything was OK in the Device Manager, but in the Sounds and Audio Devices
Control Panel there was only the Voice recording option on the Voice tab, and the
MIDI music playback (without the sound card being in the list) on the Audio tab active.
The others like Voice playback, Sound playback, Sound recording and everything on
the Volume tab was grayed out.

1. Create the restore point.

2. On the System Properties panel, Advanced tab, Environment Variables button, under
the User variables click New and create a variable named devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
with the value of 1.

3. Open the Device Manager and select Show hidden devices from the View menu.

4. Under the Sound, video and game controllers group, find your sound card(s) and
disable it/them (don’t need to uninstall).

5. Then uninstall the following devices:
- Microsoft Kernel Audio Splitter
- Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device
- Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer
- Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver

6. Select Scan for hardware changes from the Action menu. Now the system should redetect
and reinstall the deleted devices automatically. You may get non signed driver warnings,
click continue.

7. Enable the devices you disabled in step 4. You may need to restart the computer.
The problem should be disappeared, you should be able to play sounds.
I got this (verbatim) from: .annoyances.org
Again, I can't post links until I do 5 posts here, so I can't point to the original source for this solution, which should have the credit."

Wizkid and Jurekos thanks very much for the info, this fixed my problem.
Had tried a few different sound cards all were detected and drivers installed correctly but could not select in "sounds and audio" in control panel, just "modem # 1 playback"
So thanks again you saved the last few remaing hairs on my dome!

5 Gold Stars to this Post Sound problems solved

Virtualaudio, you are a superstar

I've had probs for months with no sound online, and during the last week when trying to solve the problem, have had a near XP meltdown (pc not shutting down or starting up properly), and finally no sound at all on anything (media player, spotify).

I stumbled across this post after googling "driver enabled but not started", and how happy I am

Media player and spotify are back, downloaded BBC iplayer stuff has sound, and I'm listening to radio online!!!!!!!!!! I'm not sure about youtube etc as I've uninstalled flash player and want to back up ten times before I go there because I've read that it may cause the problem and just being able to listen to downloaded BBC iplayer is enough to make me happy. But I couldn’t wait to thank you!

Anyway, just joined so I could say thanks

Anyone thinking of trying this, all I can says was that it worked, and was easy to understand and follow (requiring only a print out of the post). At step 6, I worried because the drivers didn't come back after 3 scans, but once I enabled the sound cards, yo and behold they appeared.

ONE LAST BIG THANKS :wave:

Scoobydoo

I can confirm, youtube etc etc working now I've installed Flash

A million thanks

Scoobydoo

He is the day saver

This worked like a charm. I spent 3 hours trying to figure it out and finally had to pull out the big gun, GOOGLE! Came across Virtualaudio's post and had it fixed in less than 5 min. Thanks