Occasionally, my SoundMAX gets corrupted. Last time it happened to me because I uninstalled something that had attached itself to some SoundMAX files. Restarting my computer fixed it. This time it seems to have happened randomly. My music kept making weird annoying sounds.
Anyways, my computer told me to reinstall SoundMAX. So I did.
Then it told me to restart my computer. So I did.
As it booted up, it got stuck in a perpetual boot-up process, with no way to get to safemode or anything.
I waited 3 hours and tried again. It works now, but SoundMAX did not reinstall itself.
I've googled it and all of the results are automatic update money-making schemes and some are driver updates which are useless since there's nothing there to update.
Can someone help me?
P.S. SoundMAX is what runs all sound related stuff on the computer. iTunes, Media Player, Games, etc. Apparently my Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus is gone.
System restore back to before you did that stuff.
Won't I lose data?
And how do I restore to just before that?
I believe System Restore only affects Windows files and not your documents and such.
Just try to uninstall all the sound drivers, and reinstall all the sound drivers. That would replace anyfiles that were removed.
[QUOTE=milkyway;16928937]Just try to uninstall all the sound drivers, and reinstall all the sound drivers. That would replace anyfiles that were removed.[/QUOTE]
I tried that, but the data is gone from the computer. It can't find the installer for the driver.
[QUOTE=grea$emonkey;16928986]I tried that, but the data is gone from the computer. It can't find the installer for the driver.[/QUOTE]
If your networking works, go to your motherboard company's website. And download them. If they dont have them, try google.
Every time I do that, all of the results always take me to some kinda update application which requires payments. That's what I meant by the schemes.
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Will system restore work?
[QUOTE=grea$emonkey;16929187]Every time I do that, all of the results always take me to some kinda update application which requires payments. That's what I meant by the schemes.
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Will system restore work?[/QUOTE]
Might..
What will it change? Just my drivers right? No storage will get deleted correct?
[QUOTE=grea$emonkey;16929394]What will it change? Just my drivers right? No storage will get deleted correct?[/QUOTE]
Well not storage, but things that are installed will be affected.
I went to system restore tab and pressed apply and then ok. Does that mean it's fixed? It didn't ask to restart or anything...
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[QUOTE=milkyway;16929848]Well not storage, but things that are installed will be affected.[/QUOTE]
So wait, that means all my applications will vanish? I've got too much to have to reinstall everything...
[QUOTE=grea$emonkey;16929924]I went to system restore tab and pressed apply and then ok. Does that mean it's fixed? It didn't ask to restart or anything...
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So wait, that means all my applications will vanish? I've got too much to have to reinstall everything...[/QUOTE]
Some things yes, not all.
Damn. Making backup. :crying:
Yea, I would. Because you have no idea what the hell it will remove... :keke:
Woah easy there. What's your computer manufacturer? or did you build it yourself? If you did, whats the manufacturer for the mobo?
[QUOTE=SteeleCratos;16933068]Woah easy there. What's your computer manufacturer? or did you build it yourself? If you did, whats the manufacturer for the mobo?[/QUOTE]
Custom rig.
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ASUS.
It's an ASUS P5N32-E SLI.
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What do I do?
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Please someone help me. I'm tired of there being no sound.
Try the Realtek HD Drivers instead? I think that would actually make it work.
Here is your driver from the Asus site (I guess you are running WINXP 32-bit): [url]http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/ad1988/SoundMAX_Audio_V51016110_32bit.zip[/url]
Reinstall it in Safe mode :).
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