No Sound Driver Found

[jmpc]

My computer is generating no audio sounds. Also, I've noticed that the volume icon is missing from lower taskbar. I have performed a DirectX Diagnostic Tool test from the sound tab and it generated the following note, "DirectSound Test Results: Failure at step 3 (DirectSound Create): HRESULT=0x88780078 (no driver)".

I have a second hard drive installed which is working fine with none of the aforementioned audio sound problems. I recently added the same scanner setup that is on the old hard drive on to the new hard drive. Could this perhaps be creating a conflict with the audio sound on the older hard drive? I am at a lost as to what to do. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Styx]

Only boot off one HDD. The one that works should be jumpered as Master on the primary channel and plugged in on the ribbon connector farthest from the mainboard.. The other should just be a backup for emergencies or, a image of the Master.

You obviously need to loasd the sound/soundcvard drivers on the malfunctioning drive. Get the off your drivers CD or the sound card makers website.

From Safe Mode Device Manager you'd load the sound drivers. Emachines, Celeron 600, 256 Mb RAM, 10 Gb HDD, ADSL.

 

[gargouille]

You get the volume icon back by doing Add/RemovePrograms/Windoze and look for it in the variety of add-ins. (may need the cd, don't remember)
The drivers should be in Device Manager...and if not you can add them there...OR put Windows in Add/Remove Hardware to do the discovery thing. While you're in Device Manager, expand all the entries and check for yellow exclamation marks beside any (or yellow ? marks)
You may well have an IRQ conflict...IF you have quite a few peripherals.
Matter of fact the device AND driver should be displayed on the DirectSound test page of dxdiag...

Is this a dual boot?

 

[jmpc]

If meaning must I perform a separate individual boot to access each hard drive, then the answer is yes, this is a dual boot.