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Yanni
September 24th, 2005, 01:13 AM
K first off i have no sound at all and when i try to play music or w/e i get this error "Bad DirectSound Driver. Please install Proper Drivers or select another device in config. ERROR Code: 80004005".

I went to dxdiag and ran a Sound Test and it fails at Step 3 "HRESULT = 0x80004005"

Ive tried to Reinstall my Sound Card Driver aswell. The sound card is a... "Creative sound blaster PCI" which did nothing at all.. ive even tried removing the sound card from hardware profile and rebooting and trying that way... still nothing :( Little help please? :)

uripyores
September 24th, 2005, 01:58 AM
You could try reinstalling the mobo drivers, did you get a disk with the computer [other than the windows disk] If not you can go to the manufacturers website and download them.

Tweaker
September 24th, 2005, 02:05 AM
If that does not work try booting to Safe Mode, and remove the drivers. Reboot the system and let Windows reinstall them, be sure you have the proper drivers ready when Windows is ready to install them.

Yanni
September 24th, 2005, 05:39 AM
"Mobo"? sorry, im not too sure what that is :(

uripyores
September 24th, 2005, 01:43 PM
Sorry, it's a shortened name for "Motherboard".
If you are not sure who the manufacturer is you can download EVEREST Home Edition (http://www.lavalys.hu/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en) for free which will help you to identify it.

ps. Try Tweakers suggestion above first preferrably.