CORRUPTED AUDIO MIXER. How to reinstall | windows xp

[mmx]

I have an asus - p4c-800e.

The built in sound card worked fine, and is installed fine. But the audiomixer is missing.
How do i reinstall the mixer?

 

[montag451]

Did a driver disk with the mobo - that should have the audio drivers on it -
I would have thought that it wouldn't do any harm to uninstall, then reinstall (rebooting between) the audio to see if that rights the wrong.

Of course, do a system restore point before you do that.
Also, turn off the antivirus software and firewall and DISCONNECT from the internet whilst you do it too.

 

[mmx]

tried it too. The funny thing it is installed, and no problems, but there is no AVAILABLE MIXERS.

 

[montag451]

JUST CHECKING:
Open Multimedia in the Control Panel and go to the Audio tab. Make sure
there is a check in the line at the bottom about showing the volume
control in the taskbar. If there isn't, place on there. OK your way out.
You can now just double click on the speaker icon in the tray to bring up
the full audio settings or single click to adjust the overall volume or
mute it. You should also be able to get there by click Start, Programs,
Accessories, Entertainment, Volume Control.

If that doesn't work, try going into cmd,
C:\> set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
C:\> devmgmt.msc


Then "show hidden" and your nonpresent devices will appear. You can then
delete nonpresent devices like your sound devices. Once you have the old
drivers deleted, you can reinstall your sound driver software.