[SOUNDSTORM] - Drivers OK but No output

[hyperthermia]

After trying Realtek Generic AC97 driver my sound crashed completely on my XP pro SP3.

After uninstalling and switching to nForce 5.10 Unified driver my sound is still gone.

In Device Manager a have 2 devices installed: nForce MCP and nForce ACI, so it looks OK to me.

Soundcard is visible in Winamp's Waveout/Dsound device list, and it seems to be working alright.

However there is no output on the analog line-out, not even a tone or noise.

I have second Soundcard PCI based using WDM driver and it works :/

If it's of any hint: there is no Properties panel for MCP or ACI in devmgr.
Backup card shows it though:

multimedia devices:
+ audio devices
- ALS4000 audio device [wdm]
+ midi devices
- ALS4000 audio device [wdm]
+ mixer devices
- ALS4000 audio device [wdm]

and you can access sub-properties for each on this list.
There is no such list for nForce MCP/ACI though.

So why no output?

[hyperthermia]

I read that all sound output in XP passes the windows KMixer (Kernel Audio Mixing Driver). Thought it might be the cause I found a way to bypass it. It is called Kernel Streaming (or DirectKS). Ran foobar2000 w/ Kernel Streaming plugin to test it. Though it seemed to not hang (it's still experimental), there was no output at all again :<

Seems like problem lies somewhere else.

I'm still fighting.. ;/

[TwL]

It's probably the bus enumerator not activating the device as far I've seen these issues usually there.

The sound drivers needs also time after installation because they re-detect the Microsoft part, hehe.. I boot my SoundMAX straight up when it asks and it's no go for sounds.

anyhow, try'ed the A404 driver package from Realtek?

[hyperthermia]

Short diagnosis

BIOS:
Two on-chip devices are properly detected by BIOS.

WIN:
Device Manager detects devices properly. Drivers installed by hand are working. Soundcard is visible as both waveout and directsound device.

INPUT:
Winamp processes MP3's and sends data to soundcard without problem. Things like buffer state, spectrum analyzer and eg. RightMark Positional Accuracy Test are working.

OUTPUT:
In Control Panel -> Multimedia Devices; Test Device diagnosis looks like this (unpack, it's an AVI):

http://hyper.hekko.pl/pub/dev-test2.rar

( look closely at recording slider going down; and volume bars - they are static )

Wave Recorder (Stars->Progs->Accessories->Entert.) after 10 secs of recording outputs following static noise (i played it back on backup soundcard ofc):

http://hyper.hekko.pl/pub/mic-out.wav

Backup soundcard when playing music emits identical static noise. Something affects both cards, but that's another issue.

When we're talking about other issues, my SB Live 5.1 Digital appears completely dead to my BIOS (it won't show along other PCIs).

Any hints hackers ?

[TwL]

Well, I'm out..

All I would think on that would be that it's something else but the software drivers. I remember like very long ago I had one of same serie cards and it had simlar issue, but I got that fixed by odd way to install older drivers to it. Don't ask can't remember which versions they were to activate the enumerator correctly. the A1.10 versions were designed for the ALS4000, but you probably have already those. Sorry for the misleading A4.04 statement on my earlier post.

Anyhow, as said have no clue after checked that video.

-edit-

You could try turning that device off from BIOS reboot to windows > add it back at BIOS see if that does some kinda reset at least turning this device off & then adding the other sound card in should work after that, but well as said dunno.

[hyperthermia]

Well yesterday I restored my 6 months old registry backup (hives SYSTEM & SOFTWARE). Problem still remains..

It must be some corrupted system file/driver/whatever
or some mobo part died But how might it die when Soundstorm/NFaudio is integrated within mobo itself ?

[joshua]

Soundstorm actually has 3 devices in Device Manager.
The one that is causing you the problems is the HIDDEN one.
Uninstall/Reinstall the hidden one.

Had the same sort of problem a LOOOONG time ago and this sorted it out.
Hope this helps
Good luck.

[hyperthermia]

There are 3 of those drivers and they're working properly. I've even switched to Realtek driver, but still there is no output on line-out.