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| | Been having problems with no sound on my pc, and have tracked the problem down to a sound driver. (Read thread - http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/FindPost240283.aspx for the background info) I have got a 'SigmaTel C-major Audio' sound driver installed on my system which I do not recognise. When this driver is enabled I have no sound on my pc, but once it's been disabled I have sound. I have uninstalled the driver, and restarted my pc as instructed to complete the uninstall, I then have sound on my pc for that windows session. However, after a full shut down of the pc, I've noticed that Windows is detecting it as New Hardware on start-up, and re-installing the drivers each time, I therefore have to disable it, or uninstall it & restart, each time before starting my session. Whilst this isn't a big problem, it's annoying. . . is there anyway to remove this driver permanently? I've been thru the uninstall process several times now, but each time it reappears on start-up. On the previous thread, RichieUK asked for a Hijackthis uninstall log, (see below) and then asked me to remove/uninstall: SigmaTel C-Major Audio Viewpoint Media Player and then restart. Having tried that, I can't remove Viewpoint media player at all, and every time I remove the SigmaTel C-major Audio driver, it re-loads itself the next time I boot-up. Here's the uninstall log from Hijackthis, 1st Pricing 32 Bit HP CIO Components Installer Adobe Acrobat 4.0 Adobe Flash Player ActiveX Adobe Reader 8.1.2 Adobe Shockwave Player Adobe® Photoshop® Album Starter Edition 3.2 AppCore AV AVS DVDMenu Editor 1.2.1.19 AVS Video Converter 5.6 AVS4YOU Software Navigator 1.2 BlueSoleil Canon Camera Support Core Library Canon Camera Window for ZoomBrowser EX Canon Internet Library for ZoomBrowser EX Canon MovieEdit Task for ZoomBrowser EX Canon PhotoRecord Canon RAW Image Task for ZoomBrowser EX Canon RemoteCapture Task for ZoomBrowser EX Canon Utilities PhotoStitch 3.1 Canon Utilities ZoomBrowser EX ccCommon Championship Manager 2007 C-Media PCI Audio Crush'Em 2.0 D500 USB-Handset Manager DECAdry Express Labels 3.1 DECAdry Font Manager DelinvFile - 3.03 Diamond 2400Plus v1.0 EasyCleaner Eraser FinePixViewer Ver.4.2 FloorPlan 3D v8 FUJIFILM USB Driver GameShadow Google Earth Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer Google Updater HijackThis 2.0.2 Hotfix for Windows Internet Explorer 7 (KB947864) Hotfix for Windows Media Format 11 SDK (KB929399) Hotfix for Windows Media Player 11 (KB939683) Hotfix for Windows XP (KB914440) Hotfix for Windows XP (KB915865) Hotfix for Windows XP (KB926239) HP Customer Participation Program 9.0 HP Imaging Device Functions 9.0 HP OCR Software 9.0 HP Photosmart All-In-One Software 9.0 HP Photosmart Essential 2.01 HP Smart Web Printing HP Solution Center 9.0 HP Update HPSSupply ImageMixer VCD2 for FinePix Indeo® Software Java(TM) 6 Update 6 LiveUpdate 3.2 (Symantec Corporation) Logitech Desktop Messenger Logitech Print Service Logitech QuickCam Memory-Map OS Edition Version 5 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Hotfix (KB928366) Microsoft AutoRoute 2005 Microsoft Compression Client Pack 1.0 for Windows XP Microsoft Internationalized Domain Names Mitigation APIs Microsoft National Language Support Downlevel APIs Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Premium Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP Microsoft User-Mode Driver Framework Feature Pack 1.0 Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Microsoft Works 7.0 MicroStaff WINASPI MSRedist MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB927978) MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB936181) Nero Norton AntiVirus Norton Confidential Browser Component Norton Confidential Web Protection Component Norton Internet Security Norton Internet Security Norton Internet Security Norton Internet Security Norton Internet Security (Symantec Corporation) Norton Protection Center Norton Security Scan Packard Bell Data Secure Packard Bell EverSafe Packard Bell InfoCentre PCI Audio Driver PGA Championship Golf CE Photo Viewer V208G2 PowerDVD Privacy Guardian 4.0 Puzzl'Em 1.0 Beta2 RAW FILE CONVERTER LE Registry Mechanic 5.0 Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator SAMSUNG Mobile USB Modem 1.0 Software Samsung PC Studio 3 USB Driver Installer Samsung PC Studio PC Sync Samsung Samples Installer Scientific-Atlanta WebSTAR 2000 series Cable Modem 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| The sound driver you are trying to remove is usually associated with the onboard/built-in sound adapter. It has to be disabled either in the BIOS or by a jumper on the motherboard [or both] or Windows will keep installing it. Same if installing an Add-in card to replace the built-in adapter.
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| | I have managed to disable the driver, and I think stayed 'disabled' this time. Well, the last few times I've booted up, I have sound, and the offending driver hasn't tried to re-install. As for disabling it on the BIOS, and changing 'Jumpers', I know what you talking about, but it sounds a bit technical for my level of knowledge. . . any suggestions? If I have sound, with the new card's drivers installed, do I need to change any jumpers or BIOS settings at all? |
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