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tech_no · 11-26-2007, 04:31 AM

Hi again forum members,
My daughter has found there is no sound at all coming through her monitor integrated speakers or headphones. I checked Device Manager and the Soundmax HD Audio Integrated Device is enabled and working o.k. It stated it is version 5.1. On the Sounds and Device properties in Control Panel, under Volume Tab it states: No Audio Device, so the volume slider and mute is faded out. I still have access to the SoundMax Control Panel, but nothing out of order there, as far as I can see.I next ran a Direct X Diag. Tool Sound Test (Direct X 9c on this computer) and it failed on stage 3, which is Direct Sound Create: HRESULT= 0x88780078(No Driver). I tried rolling back the driver next but this created another problem, I then lost the control panel on the SoundMax, and still no sound. I had to do a System Restore to get back to where I was. I think my daughter has somehow lost a driver for her integrated sound. Sorry if this section is for sound cards only, I didn't know if integrated sound was covered here. This is a Mesh Matrix Inspire Computer, running Windows XP with SP2. This has an ASUS M2NPV-VM Motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2 GHz wth 512 Mb RAM. Thank you.
Regards tech_no

11-26-2007, 04:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
tech_no Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Plymouth in Devon Posts: 173 OS: Windows XP Home with SP3 My System	[SOLVED] Direct X Sound Test failed? Hi again forum members, My daughter has found there is no sound at all coming through her monitor integrated speakers or headphones. I checked Device Manager and the Soundmax HD Audio Integrated Device is enabled and working o.k. It stated it is version 5.1. On the Sounds and Device properties in Control Panel, under Volume Tab it states: No Audio Device, so the volume slider and mute is faded out. I still have access to the SoundMax Control Panel, but nothing out of order there, as far as I can see.I next ran a Direct X Diag. Tool Sound Test (Direct X 9c on this computer) and it failed on stage 3, which is Direct Sound Create: HRESULT= 0x88780078(No Driver). I tried rolling back the driver next but this created another problem, I then lost the control panel on the SoundMax, and still no sound. I had to do a System Restore to get back to where I was. I think my daughter has somehow lost a driver for her integrated sound. Sorry if this section is for sound cards only, I didn't know if integrated sound was covered here. This is a Mesh Matrix Inspire Computer, running Windows XP with SP2. This has an ASUS M2NPV-VM Motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2 GHz wth 512 Mb RAM. Thank you. Regards tech_no