ghost of war

im running operating system windows xp service pack-2, my sound card is Creative Sound Blaster Live-5.1, from few days back it showing error when i try to open my mixer , it shows this message "There is no mixer device detected in the system.Mixer will now exit."i have uninstalled the sound card then re-installed it over and over, i even re-installed my windows fresh copy,i have tried the option Creative Restore Default but nothing happens, but some times the mixer runs for few minutes but when windows shows a message like this"Generic host process for Win32 services has encounted a problem and needs to close we are sorry for the inconvenience." it causes that problem again, the mixer doesn't open,but one important thing is i got sound when i open a file the mouse click sound hears,but no media sounds like songs or videos,my sound card gives sound, i have checked the hard ware my sound card shows in windows, every where it should be shown,i think there is no hard ware problems, im getting mad with this and i have no idea what to do, any one please me out.

Pauldo

Strange that a re-install of windows didn't fix the issue.

How did you re-install windows? Format, install windows, install drivers (for motherboard, soundcard and anything else you have), then update windows?

Have you checked for malware/spyware or virus'?

Barring any malware issues probably the best way to troubleshoot this is to take the card out and try it in another computer.

If you can't do that, have you tried taking the card out of the computer altogether?
Best way to do this is to uninstall soundcard from device manager
uninstall Sound Blaster drivers from add and remove programs in Control Panel
turn off the computer
remove card from computer
put the card back in, preferably in a different pci slot
boot into safe mode
cancel out of any windows install wizards
install creative drivers
reboot

Pauldo

ghost of war

thanx for replying me. i had format the whole windows and installed fresh copy, im using kaspersky anti virus-7 after installing fresh copy of windows i always install my anti virus and update it and check for virus or malware/spyware there was no virus found. one more thing i forgot to say when i open my winamp it gives me a error, its eerror code 88780078 can u help me out with error?

Pauldo

The error code in winamp is just complaining that it can't find your soundcard.

Have you tried taking the card out of the computer? Maybe, since there is a problem you should clean the contacts by using an eraser (like on the end of a pencil) to polish the gold parts that go into the slot on the motherboard. Probably isn't needed here but just in case. Then blow out any dust that is probably around there, preferably with canned air, and reseat the card. If you have an extra pci slot than put it back in there just in case.

Also, you haven't stated whether or not you have downloaded newer drivers off of the Creative website. If you haven't ever done that than try that and see what happens.

Pauldo

ghost of war

i have tried those thing before i post this, to clean sound card. but nothing changes, the problem remains, i have searched in creative web site for my product driver update, but i couldn't find any match, i have downloaded the driver update from another site but when i try to install it, it says, couldn't detect any sound card in my pc, installation will exit now:(, if the sound card is not properly set in my pci slot then how could be it shown on my device management and in control panel? please give me a favor if u know where i can get the driver update please let me know. my sound card is Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1, model-SB0220, version-5.12.3.296

dai

put your details in here and d/load the drivers and software

http://www.soundblaster.com/language...port/downloads