Finally got rid of that annoying error message (thanks) but have encountered a rather strange problem. In my profile only I have "lost" the windows program events in the sounds and audio devices window and therefore have no logon or logoff sounds (although that may be a blessing in disguise), etc. - any ideas?

Finally got rid of that annoying error message (thanks) but have encountered a rather strange problem. In my profile only I have "lost" the windows program events in the sounds and audio devices window and therefore have no logon or logoff sounds (although that may be a blessing in disguise), etc. - any ideas?

i wood try re-installing ur service pack, if u run 1 or 2....

Forgot to mention: Must delete cmuda.dll from C:\Windows\System32\drivers as well. And that was supposed to be Cmcpls in the other post for the "Cpls" section, not CMCPlus - wrote that kinda hurridly, but hopefully you all could figure it out.

Side note --- I have found that on a computer with muliple users with this issue that, when they log in, the C-Media driver kicks in again, and this fix won't work on their side of the fence, though your side that you started all this on and fixed will work fine. You would have to try to find out where the cab file or whatever it downloaded into/as and delete that for this to work, as it's obviously still pulling that C-Media driver from SOMEWHERE - I haven't found it yet, as I thought it would have been in one of those Temp locations - always good to delete those out from time to time, anyway. I don't know if I'll waste my time with it or if I will find it, since it's just me and my wife and it's just her side that's messed up now, and she has her own computer and doesn't log into mine very often :cool: . Have some other things SP2 messed up that I think I'm gonna just fix with a re-install rather than taking the weeks to find one cab file that has what I'm looking for, but thought I'd pass on the warning to not expect a complete recovery for other users on the computer, unless someone else has a better answer... Best of luck.

oh yeah thanks for wasting my file, me deleting that important file, and also thanks for leaving the multiple users part LAST

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I did all the things in the registry etc to get rid of C-Media. I have an American Megatrends mother board 07.00t 04/02/01 ECS K7S5A 1.0. The sound card is built in and is a SiS 7012 which I install from the motherboard CD under codec 635.
I have sound on my computer except for the .wav files that control Windows Start up, Shutdown etc. I have everything set up in Sounds & Audio in the control panel and when I test them, they play. However when I actually startup or shutdown they don't play. I unstalled the SiS 7012 audio driver and resinstalled it from the Motherboard CD but still no music. I can play midi files in media player. I am comfortable with software but know nothng about hardware and very little about drivers.
Since I have the SiS 7012 audio driver, can I install Realtek AC'97 also and will that get my sounds working?
When store built computer it had 89SE. Later I had him format and put on XP SP2. Sounds worked fine.
I believe I screwed up when I went into device manger and tried to update SiS 7012 sound driver and got C-media on my machine. As mentioned, I did all the thhings you said to do in the registry and reinstalled the SiS 7012 driver. My computer works just fine including sounds from email attachments, microphone etc. The only thing that doesn't work are the .wav files in sound audio when I start up and shutdown. They do work when I test them in audio and sounds in control panel.

Scheme is set at default and "all" windows sounds play when tested in audio/sounds in control panel. Just don't play when the event happens. Since things worked using Motherboard CD originally and sounds other than the windows sounds work, you must be right that it is not the sound driver. I guess I will just live without the windows sounds.

I created another user and sure enough I got the music sounds. So I guess the Tweak UI might have done it to my XP. I need to study your answer so that I do it right in the registry or I guess I can so the safe mode and stay out of the registry. Many thanks. I have already deleted the new user I created to see if music would play.

I went into safe mode and used Adminstrator to log in. I need to ask if I rename auggief to auggiefold and restart, I will then be in regular mode and assume that everything will be there from auggief. I would rather do without the music then lose my current setup with auggief . Are you saying that when I restart, and go into Doc & Settings I will show two profiles, auggief and auggiefold. It that is correct, then I do the split screen thing and copy and paste the files as you instructed. Sorry, but I am not comfortable with something this technical.

I got this page from Google search and surprised myself by following your directions and curing this most irritating pop-up message. It all started when I installed the latest Microsoft update: Cmedia WDM Audio Driver which gave me no sound at all after I rebooted. I tried to deinstall it and then went back to my origional Avance AC97 Audio Device. After the sound returned, all I had to do was remove the cmaudio string as you instructed. All is well and my wife thanks you as she doesn't have to listen to my ranting!

I got this page from Google search and surprised myself by following your directions and curing this most irritating pop-up message. It all started when I installed the latest Microsoft update: Cmedia WDM Audio Driver which gave me no sound at all after I rebooted. I tried to deinstall it and then went back to my origional Avance AC97 Audio Device. After the sound returned, all I had to do was remove the cmaudio string as you instructed. All is well and my wife thanks you as she doesn't have to listen to my ranting!

Same here(tho i do the search on yahoo) but i still wanna update my exisiting soundcard to a one with a higher version(Avance AC97 Audio).
currently my version:5.10.0.3800 dated 2001 and the most recent version available is 6.14.01.4080 anyone has any idea how to obtain that file i couldnt find it anywhere.

Same here(tho i do the search on yahoo) but i still wanna update my exisiting soundcard to a one with a higher version(Avance AC97 Audio). currently my version:5.10.0.3800 dated 2001 and the most recent version available is 6.14.01.4080 anyone has any idea how to obtain that file i couldnt find it anywhere.

I typed in 6.14.01.4080 into Google and the second suggestion sent me to a website called www.softwarepatch.com . They have the download you wanted.
I down loaded it but didn't install it yet; it comes zipped and I really don't know what part to install after unzipping it. I have Windows XP.

[QUOTE=s046134]I typed in 6.14.01.4080 into Google and the second suggestion sent me to a website called www.softwarepatch.com . They have the download you wanted.
I down loaded it but didn't install it yet; it comes zipped and I really don't know what part to install after unzipping it. I have Windows XP. Let me know how you make out and if improves your sound!

I am extremely happy now ^_^.I dl-ed it and unzip and install and poof now my sound card becomes a Vinyl AC'97 Audio [wave]
tats the lastest update version 6.14.1.4090 dated 2005.And yes there is an improvement in the sound im pretty sure of it i heard better quality music as in those beats.

Heres the sceeny: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/darkz3n/help.jpg

the yellow icon below is the one u could config on sounds.

And re test the drivers that needs to be update on my com ( http://www.radarsync.com/ ) and now my sound driver is remove from the list which means im using one that is up to date.

Maybe u shd go to that site and test for ur own sound driver maybe urs is different from mine and doesnt use Vinyl?
You could also buy the product(radarsync) which is kinda expensive but they allow u to download the updates straight from their own database saving u the time to hunt the updates down yourself.But why buy it since u can search on the net like u did for me.

Lastly thank you for the search u help me big time.Continue posting and keep me update ill visit this daily.

;) I am extremely happy now ^_^.I dl-ed it and unzip and install and poof now my sound card becomes a Vinyl AC'97 Audio [wave]
tats the lastest update version 6.14.1.4090 dated 2005.And yes there is an improvement in the sound im pretty sure of it i heard better quality music as in those beats.

Heres the sceeny: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/darkz3n/help.jpg

the yellow icon below is the one u could config on sounds.

And re test the drivers that needs to be update on my com ( http://www.radarsync.com/ ) and now my sound driver is remove from the list which means im using one that is up to date.

Maybe u shd go to that site and test for ur own sound driver maybe urs is different from mine and doesnt use Vinyl?
You could also buy the product(radarsync) which is kinda expensive but they allow u to download the updates straight from their own database saving u the time to hunt the updates down yourself.But why buy it since u can search on the net like u did for me.

Lastly thank you for the search u help me big time.Continue posting and keep me update ill visit this daily.

Thank you for the help and I'm glad that I could help you and you were successful in improving your sound.
I had to fly out to Wichita this morning, for the next nine days, and won't get home until Wednesday, 02-08-06. That's where my home computer resides. I'll try your suggestions when I get home to Las Cruces, NM.

This was an error I found on my computer that I did a search on the web for a quick and easy fix for. I found this forum that had my error and symptoms, but found no one had a solution. The thread was closed because the original poster had not responded to the posts in over a year, even though it sparked a lively discussion with others saying they had same problem (at which Daniweb admins kept scoffing! I say LET THEM POST! Even if they don't have an answer, knowing that others have the same issue and finding out how it was caused in each case can be very good and help toward a solution!). I thought that was @$$ and was what made me join this forum, to give those having this problem the answer they deserved and not the closed thread they got in return. Whataloadacrap.

Background: This error occurs after trying to uninstall the updated (and overrated) C-Media WDM Audio Driver for onboard sound that appears after upgrading to XP SP2 and/or going to WindowsUpdate. Likely the driver didn't work, so you tried uninstalling the driver and were going to put back the old Realtek AC'97 driver, but couldn't get rid of the updated driver.

To fix: Start, Run, type in "regedit" (no quotes), and delete the cmaudio string from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. This makes it so it will not run on startup and try to find the cpl file that was deleted during the uninstall or not installed correctly by the installer in the first place, whichever your case depending on when you started seeing the error. If your sound was working perfectly before this, you are done. To get your sound working again if it isn't, read on -

While still in the registry editor, click on the top computer icon in the Registry Editor to highlight it (so that it will do a complete search of the registry and not just from your present point forward), do a Find (Ctrl+F) and find and delete all KEYS related to cmaudio and C-Media, not just the string entries, but the KEYS, except for that entry in the Run key I mentioned above, just delete the cmaudio string for that one.

Delete the string "CMCPlus" from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Cpls to get rid of the Control Panel icon, and delete the file it points to that resides in C:\Windows\System32.

Download this remove utility from

http://ekiis.com/Freesoft/binary/remove11.zip

and run the file you find in the zip file - it can be ran without extracting it from the zip. Take out the C-Media Audio Driver line.

-- NOTE: This utility is for taking the name out of the Add/Remove Programs section only, and does not remove it from your computer, but it is very useful for issues like this when we are MANUALLY uninstalling a program to take it out of the Programs list and should work in 98/ME/2000/XP.

Delete these files from the C:\Windows\System32 directory (or "System" directory for Win98)

cmirmdrv.exe cmirmdrv.dll cmuda.dll

Delete everything you can readily delete in C:\Temp, C:\WINDOWS\prefetch (XP only), C:\WINDOWS\Temp, and C:\Documents and Settings\%YourName%\Local Settings\Temp (2000 and XP only), so that there will not be any files left for it to try to recover the driver from. You will likely have to leave things that start with hsperfdata_ and Perflib_Perfdata_***.dat files if you find them, but should be able to delete most others without changing attributes.

Now open the Device Manager (Right-click "My Computer", hit "Manage", then find Device Manager in the Computer Management console). Right-click the C-Media WDM driver under Sound, video, and game controllers, hit Uninstall. Then right-click the top computer icon listed there with your hostname beside it, hit "Scan for hardware changes". It should install a generic "Multimedia Audio Controller" instead of the "C-Media WDM Audio Driver", though you might see that C-Media Audio for just an instant before it reverts back to a generic driver (if it stays, you'll have to go back through the registry again, delete the system files again, and do a full search of your hard drive for those files so they don't get re-copied again). From here you can download your specific Realtek AC'97 Audio Driver setup.exe file here or use your motherboard's installation CD to re-install and you should have sound again.

Good luck.

Well once iI finally got the guts to try this Iwas fixed in about 2 minutes.Thanks man.

This was an error I found on my computer that I did a search on the web for a quick and easy fix for. I found this forum that had my error and symptoms, but found no one had a solution. The thread was closed because the original poster had not responded to the posts in over a year, even though it sparked a lively discussion with others saying they had same problem (at which Daniweb admins kept scoffing! I say LET THEM POST! Even if they don't have an answer, knowing that others have the same issue and finding out how it was caused in each case can be very good and help toward a solution!). I thought that was @$$ and was what made me join this forum, to give those having this problem the answer they deserved and not the closed thread they got in return. Whataloadacrap.

Background: This error occurs after trying to uninstall the updated (and overrated) C-Media WDM Audio Driver for onboard sound that appears after upgrading to XP SP2 and/or going to WindowsUpdate. Likely the driver didn't work, so you tried uninstalling the driver and were going to put back the old Realtek AC'97 driver, but couldn't get rid of the updated driver.

To fix: Start, Run, type in "regedit" (no quotes), and delete the cmaudio string from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. This makes it so it will not run on startup and try to find the cpl file that was deleted during the uninstall or not installed correctly by the installer in the first place, whichever your case depending on when you started seeing the error. If your sound was working perfectly before this, you are done. To get your sound working again if it isn't, read on -

While still in the registry editor, click on the top computer icon in the Registry Editor to highlight it (so that it will do a complete search of the registry and not just from your present point forward), do a Find (Ctrl+F) and find and delete all KEYS related to cmaudio and C-Media, not just the string entries, but the KEYS, except for that entry in the Run key I mentioned above, just delete the cmaudio string for that one.

Delete the string "CMCPlus" from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Cpls to get rid of the Control Panel icon, and delete the file it points to that resides in C:\Windows\System32.

Download this remove utility from

http://ekiis.com/Freesoft/binary/remove11.zip

and run the file you find in the zip file - it can be ran without extracting it from the zip. Take out the C-Media Audio Driver line.

-- NOTE: This utility is for taking the name out of the Add/Remove Programs section only, and does not remove it from your computer, but it is very useful for issues like this when we are MANUALLY uninstalling a program to take it out of the Programs list and should work in 98/ME/2000/XP.

Delete these files from the C:\Windows\System32 directory (or "System" directory for Win98)

cmirmdrv.exe cmirmdrv.dll cmuda.dll

Delete everything you can readily delete in C:\Temp, C:\WINDOWS\prefetch (XP only), C:\WINDOWS\Temp, and C:\Documents and Settings\%YourName%\Local Settings\Temp (2000 and XP only), so that there will not be any files left for it to try to recover the driver from. You will likely have to leave things that start with hsperfdata_ and Perflib_Perfdata_***.dat files if you find them, but should be able to delete most others without changing attributes.

Now open the Device Manager (Right-click "My Computer", hit "Manage", then find Device Manager in the Computer Management console). Right-click the C-Media WDM driver under Sound, video, and game controllers, hit Uninstall. Then right-click the top computer icon listed there with your hostname beside it, hit "Scan for hardware changes". It should install a generic "Multimedia Audio Controller" instead of the "C-Media WDM Audio Driver", though you might see that C-Media Audio for just an instant before it reverts back to a generic driver (if it stays, you'll have to go back through the registry again, delete the system files again, and do a full search of your hard drive for those files so they don't get re-copied again). From here you can download your specific Realtek AC'97 Audio Driver setup.exe file here or use your motherboard's installation CD to re-install and you should have sound again.

Good luck.

Man when I finally got the guts to try this it fixed my problem in 2 minutes. Thanks man. I tried searching all over the place to fix it, even tried Microsoft support. NO help. It is obviously not a virus. WHEWWWWW.[/QUOTE]

Hey I HAD that problem and I followed your solution and it worked, thank you
best regards John