Vista - Help please with my audio!!!!

My speaker icon in the taskbar has a red cross on it. When I hover my
mouse over it, it says "The audio service is not running", if I right
click it I get 3 options
1. Playback devices
2. Recording devices
3. Sounds

So... I went to my start menu and searched services.msc and checked to see if plug and play, windows audio endpoint builder, and multimedia class scheduler were all set to startup type automatic & all started. they were. so then i go to Windows Audio, right click to properties, and it is stopped. So i click to start it and it says

"Windows could not start the Windows Audio service on Local Computer.

Error 1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process."

I tried to restore my computer but my restore point is past the point when this issue originated.
Also, Conexant Driver is installed and working properly.

If I right click on the volume icon with a little red X through it... I can click on Open Volume Mixer, and It says "No Audio Device Installed"
Yet, my audio devices are installed.

Please help!!!!!

Hello tylerhess,

Welcome to the forum.

Have you installed any new audio drivers?

Can you open playback devices and send me a picture of it or describe what you have there? Use the snipping tool. Start Search, write snipping, and select the tool

Can you open Device Manager and do the same for your Audio drivers?

Windows audio? can you point me to where you are looking?

Pooch

no i have not installed any new audio drivers...
i am using Conexant High Definition Audio and it says it is running and working.

When i click on playback devices it says....

"This computer cannot play audio because the Windows Audio Service is not enabled.

Would you like to enable the Windows Audio Service?"

So, I click yes.
And a sound window comes up with three different tabs... playback, recording, sounds.


Windows audio is when i type services.msc into my search. so i open up my services.. and scroll down to windows audio and check the properties and it says it has stopped. So i try to start it and that error comes up.

Is the audio service set to automatic when you try and start it? Also make sure the "Windows Audio Endpoint Builder" is set to automatic and running.

yes they are both set to automatic.

and Windows Audio Endpoint Builder is also running.

hey ive just had the exact same problam, as have many others, luckily in my stressyness i did a forced shutdown so that wen i turened my laptop bak on i got the option to do a system check, choose that you want to do the check, after the check my computer restarted and i had sound agen... i am however thinking of spending my next loan installment on a mac

why dont you install mac on your existing computer? surely you are not going to waste your money on a bit of plastic covering on a computer?

What device is listed in the name for the audio device? We need to know more about your system in order to find out what the problem is. Do you use Realtek, a motherboard audio device, or a separate audio card? All I know ia that you are running Vista 32 bit.

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Posted: February 7, 2009, 11:22am

Under: Support



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