Windows Kernel Wave - No Sound

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This keeps happening to this computer. Sound stops. Device manager shows
yellow ! and the device error states: Windows cannot load the device driver
for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39).

I cannot stop this problem. Plesse help...

"GW" wrote:

> I have lost all sound twice now in the last two months. I did the fix below
> both times and it worked. Does anyone know why I have to keep doing this?
>
> Thanks
>
> On the System Properties panel, Advanced tab, Environment Variables button,
> under the User variables click New and create a variable named
> devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices with the value of 1.
> Open the Device Manager and select Show hidden devices from the View menu.
> Under the Sound, video and game controllers group, find your sound card(s)
> and
> disable it/them (don’t need to uninstall).
> Then uninstall the following devices:
> Microsoft Kernel Audio Splitter
> Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device
> Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer
> Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver
> Select Scan for hardware changes from the Action menu. Now the system should
> redetect and reinstall the deleted devices automatically. You may get non
> signed driver warnings, click continue.
> Enable the devices you disabled in step 4. You may need to restart the
> computer.
> The problem should be disappeared, you should be able to play sounds.
>
 
On Sep 7, 5:08 am, GW <G...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> This keeps happening to this computer. Sound stops. Device manager shows
> yellow ! and the device error states: Windows cannot load the device driver
> for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39).
>
> I cannot stop this problem. Plesse help...
>
> "GW" wrote:
> > I have lost all sound twice now in the last two months. I did the fix below
> > both times and it worked. Does anyone know why I have to keep doing this?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > On the System Properties panel, Advanced tab, Environment Variables button,
> > under the User variables click New and create a variable named
> > devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices with the value of 1.
> > Open the Device Manager and select Show hidden devices from the View menu.
> > Under the Sound, video and game controllers group, find your sound card(s)
> > and
> > disable it/them (don't need to uninstall).
> > Then uninstall the following devices:
> > Microsoft Kernel Audio Splitter
> > Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device
> > Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer
> > Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver
> > Select Scan for hardware changes from the Action menu. Now the system should
> > redetect and reinstall the deleted devices automatically. You may get non
> > signed driver warnings, click continue.
> > Enable the devices you disabled in step 4. You may need to restart the
> > computer.
> > The problem should be disappeared, you should be able to play sounds.

Run Windows on "repair". That will replace missing/knackered drivers
etc.
 
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