Realtek 97 drivers working no sound grayed out boxes

[toygod]

Ive been searching for 2 days trying different things
first problem was driver enabled but has not been started fixed that by getting rid of the ghost soundcards in sound/media
now my driver are enabled and functioning properly
but im still not abled to access the playback / recoding drop down

ive done sfc /scannow ---no problem
combofix--- no probelms
even repaired xp from disc in dos (reinstall over current)

my onboard sound is enabled
ive tried soundblaster live installed drivers (no problems) ---no drop down to select same as above
my midi is working
my soundman has audio test for speakers and it plays sound on my speakers
my pnp emu is running on startup auto

im not able to get msinfo32 to run havnt tried it in safemod yet
my dx9 txt attact

current drivers are ALC850_V5870_WHQL
on a8n-sli_premium motherboard
winxp sp2 pro

 

[toygod]

I got my msinfo32 to work

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[LookinAround]

Look here [post=926040]Reference Guides to Help Setup and Troubleshoot Windows Audio and Sound Cards[/post]. Then post back if none of the Help Guides seem to help

 

[toygod]

im going to upgrade to sp3

 

[toygod]

i updated to sp3 still no sound so i did a google
ms Kernel Audio issues

re: Microsoft Kernel Audio issues
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 4:57 am
Posted by Nee (1 messages posted)

Hello,
I had a similar problem (code 42 to microsoft kernel ...) and it was due to duplicate
"plug and play software device
enumerator" entry in device manager->system devices.
If it's the same for you:
1. Check in each of those Properties->Details->Device instance ID.
The only one that should be present is the one with Device instance ID = Root\System\0000.
2. In order to remove the other one (which lets say is Root\System\0005), run regedt32
(you'll need to change permissions of a folder so don't use regedit simple).
3. Select my computer, save your registry (File->Export... to a backup file which
needs to be run in case of a problem..).
4. Search (Edit/Find or F3) for swenum and press F3 to search for next until in left
panel it shows something like 0005 (from the device instance id like above). This
should be HKey_Local_MachineHKLM->System->ControlSet002->Enum->Root->System->0005.
5. Right click on 0005, choose permissions..., select Allow at full control, OK.
6. again right click on 0005 and choose Delete.
7. Close the regedit window and all the others, restart your pc.
8. Install your audio drivers (you might have to restart again the computer).
It should work fine now.
Regarding the duplicate plug and play software device enumerator, this appeared
because I followed some instructions where was supposed to be applied JUST/ONLY in
case the only pnp sd enumerator was corrupted or missing...in my case it was working
fine, but since in those instructions it wasn't specified when to be applied, just
in case of "no audio", I didn't bother to check first if that enumerator was ok or
not...
Good luck.


now i have sound
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