No Audio Device

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Hi,

I am running Windows XP SP2 and my Sound device is integrated into my
motherboard (K7SEM) and I am running the latest drivers found on this site:
http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/drivers_sound.html

I also have checked my BIOS and have confirmed that the device is enabled.

Device Manager also states there are no problems, and that the device is
working correctly.

I went so far as to put an old hard drive in my machine and do a fresh
install of windows, it found the sound device and it WORKED! (No SPs on the
restore CD I got with my computer).

So what can I do to besides reinstall windows? Is there something in regedit
that I need to clear? I've uninstalled and reinstalled, and rebooted, and
enabled till I'm blue in the face. It says it clear as day in the hardware
tab in the Sound options (SiS 7018 Audio Driver), but it still is telling me
there is no device to output sound to. Help?
 
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So what can I do to besides reinstall windows? Is there something in
regedit that I need to clear? I've uninstalled and reinstalled, and
rebooted, and enabled till I'm blue in the face. It says it clear as
day in the hardware tab in the Sound options (SiS 7018 Audio Driver),
but it still is telling me there is no device to output sound to.
Help?
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The only help I can think of is: read any messages carefully, and interpret
them in the context of what you're doing.
If you have some diagnose software (dedicated to SiS or general), try it.
Try different file types, starting with WAV.
Check in Control_Panel | Sounds_and_Audio_Devices | Audio that you have
devices selected.

If, say, no MIDI device were selected, the data from a MIDI file would have
nowhere to go to.

Off-topic, just to alert you:
Not your situation, but mine: I can play MIDI files at this moment, but I
won't hear a thing. My default MIDI device has been set to a removable one -
that happens not to be connected. I choose another one - and here's the
sound.
 
Well, I can't play a thing, because every player says no audio device
selected, and there is no way to select it from within the control panel GUI
for sound and the like. As for errors, it started from what I think was power
interuption, I tried to play some music in winamp, and it gave me a no audio
device selected error. So I went to device manager and there were about 5 or
6 things with exclamation points. Instead of writing down each one like I
should have done, I said WTF is this and started uninstalling all of them and
hit refresh. It was basically my sound device, my CD drive, my DVD drive and
something in System I think, and I'm not sure if they all came back (CD, DVD,
and the SiS Sound driver came back, I know for sure).

I'll post relavant event log stuff when I get back on that computer wait a
bit for any response. Then I'll probably end up spending 4 hours reinstalling
everything back to some normalcy, unless anyone has any registry solutions,
because thats the last place for a software settings solution I can think of,
since I've already shown its not a hardware one. And no, I don't have a
restore point, not one I'd like to go to anyway :). Its not that I don't
backup my data, I just don't back up system states on my home computer.
 
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