

When I checked the Sound and Audio Devices section of the Control Panel in Windows XP, it shows there are no audio devices and everything is grayed out. However other audio does not play normally and results in error messages. Starts or shuts down you hear the normal Windows sounds. Most people will assume the sound card itself is having difficulty or the drivers have no been installed, or maybe the system has been muted. I receive this error message about no active mixer devices when I try to double-click on the Volume icon in the system tray

I noticed that there was a problem with ->There are no active mixer devices availableĮrror in Windows XP <- There are no active mixer devices available when opening volume control, I went here and found the problem and solution.Īlthough the sound card and its drivers are installed correctly. I have been having this very problem and have been having no luck until a few minutes ago. Why aren't the Realtek or Creative in my hardware, what are those unknowns and what should I do with them, and most important I want to get my sound back. I hit the reinstall driver through windows update and it searches and never finds it. To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver. The drivers for this device are not installed. There's a list of other devices and underneath it all there are two that says Unknown. HP says my factory sound hardware is suppose to be Realtek Audio Codec or Creative Audigy, but when I go to the hardware tab it's not in there. Under the audio tab in sound playback it says under default device No Playback Device and voice playback it says under default device No Playback Device.

I went to sounds and devices and under volume it says No Audio Device. I have seen simialr threads but none of them worked and there is a difference tro my problem that I have not been able to find an answer yet. I recently crashed the system and had to do a system recovery.
