I HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM BUT FIGURED IT OUT!!!! I have an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe M/B with onboard SoundMax soundcard. I tried everything and still kept getting the Driver not loaded! Reboot and try again! Finally, I decided to do a most obvioius choice when dealing with something on-board..........I reset the CMOS! When I rebooted it found my card and i was able to install normally. Hope this helps you all. ENJOY!!!!

Hey, before u judge me, just understand that i'm 12 and my DOB is 26/03/93 now, after u do the steps in the add hardware, u have 2 install the software from a location or automatically, pick the one from a location...
then, pick dont search, i'll choose the driver
look for what u are searching for, if u cant find, double click the one that says show all devices... find your one, click next pick the one that u know is ur device, next, it might give u a warning, click yes.. done, plz comment... if u think i'm not 12, i am, i wanna be a comp tech. or author lol
:hotbounce :hotbounce :hotbounce :hotbounce my email is leafprobe@hotmail.com.. i found out the way 2 do it after gettin frustated with not listening to good charlotte on my comp!!!

in device manager it has multimedia audio controller but with a yellow question mark next to it. does anyone know what driver i need here are my specs

System Model
Packard Bell NEC P851008201
System Serial Number: 032745620397
Chassis Serial Number: 50424E
Enclosure Type: Desktop

Main Circuit Board
Board: NEC COMPUTERS INTERNATIONAL GA-8SIMLNF 1.x
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1.0N 09/15/2003
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You should be able to get your sound drivers from your computer manufacturers website.

[url]http://www.packardbell.com/support/[/url]

Regards Howard

I have a Dell 4600 (P4 266, 1gig ram, win XP) with Creative SB Live sound card. Two days ago my power supply went dead and I had to replace it with an Antec power supply. My clock got reset to 6/2004 which I fixed. Since then every time I start my computer the New Hardware Wizard popped up and it found a "multimedia audio controller". Yet, it could not find the driver for me and therefore has a yellow ? next to it. I have tried to re-install the Creative SB Live soundcard driver and no help. My sound card is actually working well. I only have another PVR (Hauppauge 150MCE card) added to my computer and its driver has been updated and won't work with this "multimedia audio controller". All this started after my power supply went dead and I replaced it with another. Does this have anything to do with the power supply? Any input is appreciated. This is driving me nuts.
Thanks in advance.

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Go into your bios, and disable the onboard sound.

Please don`t post the same question in different threads. Thanks.

Regards Howard

Hi there. I had the same problem but I fixed it. Go thru the "Install new hardware" function until you reach the part where you can choose from CD or List. Choose "List" then click "Browse" and navigate to where your drivers are stored on your hard drive. Mine are C:\Dell\Drivers. There are heaps of them. I just started at the top and tried to install every one and when the screen comes up that says "Cannot Install Hardware" use the "Back" key and click "Browse" again and choose the next one. Eventually you will see one that continues right through the setup. Once complete I had to go into "Device Manager" and under "Sound, Video and game controllers" I had to double click "Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device" and choose "Disable"
Bingo , I have SOUND. I hope this works for you too. Let me know how you go.
Cheers
Glen

i am having the same problem with media audio controller, on device manager it has a yellow explanation mark near media audio controller. No sound could be played on my computer could some one please help. i use:

AUTHENTICAMD PROCESSOR 1.869 MHz
1gb ram

could some one please tell me how to fix this problem.
thank in advance

p.s. i cannot find those driver files

You will need to find where your drivers are stored. Do a "Search" on your hard drive ,they have to be there somewhere. When you find them follow my description from before. Good luck.
Cheers
Glen

i did find that driver folder, but the folder did not contain much as you said it was in system32 and it only had two folders in there and it never worked on add device on muti media controller. my computer is not a dell make but it has service pack 2 it is a time computer, i can not contact the manufacturer or the software support team because the company "the computer shop" went bust last year. sum 1 plz help thanks

Hi everybody.
When i opened volume control, it says:"There are no active mixer devices available. to instal mixer devices, go to Control Panel, click Printers and other hardware, and then click add hardware.

this program will now close."

And i couldn't install new driver.

When i open device manager, multimedia audio controller has question mark with yellow color.

my notebook is toshiba m45-S331.

do anyone can help me with this problem?

thanx

Go to the toshiba website, find your laptop there and go to the downloads/support section. Get your drivers. Reboot in safe mode, and install from there.

EDIT: and don't double post, or bump threads like so. Its bad habit.

Thanks Howard , Was having same problem with my multimedia audio controller. I recently reset bios and completely forgot to disable onboard sound.

My multipedia audio controller's soundmax driver is gone and I don't know where to install it. My computer model is a Dell Dimension 3000. System Service Tag is 1TXY761 and Chassis Serial Number: 1TXY761. I went to the Dell Support site and found the list of driver downloads. But I don't see soundmax in that list. Can someone please help?

http://support.ap.dell.com/support/d...&fileid=122481
This should be it. The Soundmax App should be included with the driver if i'm not mistaken..

I reformatted everything and now my Audio does not work. I have the yellow ? by my other devices -> multimedia audio controller
And I am not sure what that means.

I am sure I have an SiS board .. at one point it says SiS 962L
I tryed to find drivers for this but could not seem to get them to fix my problem.

Can someone help me sort this out, thanks in advance

I have an HP Brio 410.I formated my computer using a Windows 2000 Disk.I had this problem before.After I reinstall Windows 2000(Because I don't notice how much space I have been using and it gets real slooooooow.)I have Audio Codecs in my Hardware list that are so called working and there not making a noise.I have PS/2 Altec Lansing speakers that are working fine because I just got them and before I formatted the computer they were working and I had this same problem a long time ago when I formated.The speakers ARE plugged into the right jack so thats not a problem.When I use Windows Media Player it says that it does not have audio drivers installed.I rember I had Crystal Audio Codecs installed on every single computer I've had including this one and they all worked.When I install the Crystal Audio Codecs it puts a Sound icon with an ! next to it.When I install the drivers it STILL won't work.I am lost and don't know what to do anymore.HELP PLEASE!!!???

DB84: the yellow ? means that you have a driver issue that needs to be fixed in order for that device to work properly. Download SIW or Everest home and post up here the make/model of your motherboard or go google for its drivers.

DJCUE95:Audio codecs are just software to decode certain music files. What you need is to install the drivers for your sound card. Try the one on this page: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...35&swEnvOID=24

I went to that web site i got the package and it says open the Device manger and follow the instructions and there are no insructions so I don't know what to do.Ty tho

so you've downloaded a file called bdf652en.exe? and extracted that to a temporary location etc?

Try this:
-Go to Add/Remove Programs, find something that looks like its part of your audio drivers like Crystal Audio, Realtek, C-Media etc. and uninstall it. If you don’t have anything like that then don’t worry, just skip to the next step.
-Go to device manager>sound, video and game controllers. Uninstall anything relating to audio devices. Reboot your PC.
-When it comes back to windows and detects the new hardware, cancel it from installing by itself.
-Go to the folder where you’ve put the extracted sound card drivers, and run the setup.exe