No Sound Card installed

[dsmail]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for your reply. There was a newer driver available from Creative for my sound card, but after installation, the same problem was still there. I've attached the results of DXDIAG as you suggested to this message. Hopefully this will help to solve the problem.

Dave

[dsmail]

That's strange then as I use a CD burner with Nero with no problems. It was Sisoft Sandra that reported this error with ASPI drivers....must have been mistaken! At least we can discount ASPI drivers as the cause of my problem. Still been unable to use Vogone with the same "no sound card installed, please install one" error message. Hopefully somebody on the forum will come up with something soon.

Dave

[dsmail]

My only sound device is my Creative PCI 128. My motherboard does not have onboard audio. I have tried installing it and reinstalling from original CD but no joy.

Am reluctant to reinstall XPP as it would take weeks / months to regenerate all software, settings tweaks etc. Everything Else works perfectly well as it is. I need my PC for work projects and other jobs.

Did anything come of my posting of the DirectX diagnostic program results.

Well, before I write this off as a total loss of $55, has anybody any final words of hope or advice. I know there are billions of pc configurations in existence, but am I really the first to have got absolutely nowhere with Vogone with my system? I was looking forward to experimenting with the program, but looks like it's not going to happen with my PC. I'm sure there's a simple answer to all this, a tweak of the registry perhaps? or a minor edit in a line or two of an ini file somewhere? Who knows?

Dave

[dsmail]

Thanks for your continuing help on this one. Seems the consensus is the sound card. I'll get something of a higher and more appropriate spec as you suggest Bryan and see if that helps out. Perhaps an Audiology as gduns mentions. I'll let you know how I get on. Turned in to a bit of an education all this....wouldn't you say.

Thanks

Dave

[dsmail]

Perhaps something like this might do the trick


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dave

[dsmail]

Cheers Bryan. I'll get myself the Live card and if there are no incompatibilty problems as suggested I might just be up and running. I've researched how ABIT motherboards with VIA chipsets can live with the SB Live card and I appear to be OK on what I've read so far. Time will tell. I'll let you know.

Thanks again

Dave

[dsmail]

Well, I installed Creative SB Live as discussed and nothing has changed. It works fine with Windows XPP and all my installed apps apart from Vogone which shows exactly the same error messages as with my previous sound card. I tried the SB Live on various different PCI slots which made no difference and updated the driver from Creative which didn't help. I removed Vogone and reinstalled it also but to no avail.

Where do we go from here? Any more ideas.

Dave

[dsmail]

I'm pretty certain that no other programs are using the sound card and therefore making it unavailable for Vogone. Although I'd like to know what has to be left running as a minimum in XPP. In 98SE, it was just explorer and systray. Anyone know what the XPP equivalent is.
I think there is a strong point for installing Win XPP on the C: drive as suggested. I did mention this further back in the discussion thread but obviously who wants to reinstall OS from scratch. I intend to retainn current XPP installation on D: and install XPP again on C: using a dual boot system in the mean time until the installtion on C: is complete and then remove the old XPP from D:

Thanks for your thoughts and comments

Dave

[dsmail]

Problem is solved at last. It wasn't the sound card and it wasn't anything to do with my OS being on the D: drive in the end. It was the integrity of the WAV files I was asking Vogone to open.
I had converted MP3s into WAVs using the highly acclaimed Cool Edit Pro audio manipulation prgramme which I use frequently and this is what Vogone obviously did not like. I ripped a track from a CD strainght to WAV format using a basic CD ripper and the resulting WAV was recognised by Vogone. I think what threw me right off course was the error message created by Vogone "No sound device installed, please instal one and try agin" This obviously makes the user think the problem is with the sound card when it isn't at all. Perhaps in future releases of the programme this error messgae could read something like "Inappropriate file format, please try again" or something like that. However, I'm not sure if this is an OS error message or a Vogone error message. Anyway, all is sorted now although I did purchase a new sound card and reinstall my OS needlessly. Thought you might be interested to know how it all turned out in the end.

Dave

[jaddams]

Ckeck this possible solution from the Creative Labs website. It may help someone.

Good luck,

Jon

[G-Force]

DSmail, you are not the only one with this problem. I just ran into this one today. I was creating a medley of songs for a friend who will be doing a live performance this weekend with cooleditpro, and of course I saved it to a wav file. Keyrite did not like this file. I got the same message you did, and was racking my brain trying to figure this out until I read your post.