Problem with Audio Drivers.Please Help!

[Amitava83]

Hello guys,

First of all,I would like to thank you for all the brilliant solutions you always provide to the technical problems we face. I hope you’ll be able to solve mine.

I have XP(SP2) and Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC.

My PC has ADI Soundmax drivers for the onboard Sound Card on my ASUS P5Q-E mobo.I have a Creative T6100 5.1 Speaker configured to it. Now since quite few days, on XP, the Soundmax Audio software suddenly fails to identify my speaker set & as a result I get no sound when I play any audio or video files. When I click on Sounds and Audio Devices in Control Panel,it says ‘Failed to recognize Hardware’. The surprising part is that, when I reboot XP, the problem gets fixed, but only temporarily.
The same configuration is there on my Windows 7 Ultimate but I do not face this problem over there.

I have tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them but the problem remains. I have scanned my system for virus,Trojans, adware, malware, spyware but system is clean.

Please help.

[Phage]

A windows update perhaps, that has changed something in the background. What happens if you roll back the system ?

[Amitava83]

I have not tried to roll back.I do not wish to do that.

[Phage]

In any problem solving on a system that had been previously running OK, the question is always - what has changed ?
In your case it seems that you haven't changed anything, so my thought was, is it possible that one of the update services may have changed a driver or other software without clearly notifying you of what it weas doing ?
In all cases the easiest way is to make windows go back to a previous restore point when the system was working. This is an easy task from Start -> Accesories -> system tools.
See here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084

[ehhhhhhh]

I would try to roll back only the audio driver through the device manager or remove the audio drivers and install them again manually.