Comments on: There Are No Active Mixer Devices Available

By: elri

elri — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:05:04 +0000

Great thanks for your advice!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:49:25 +0000

I’m having the same problem and I was getting extremely skeptical of any more solutions but I think I may have found the solution. I think the problem revolves around sp3(at least that seems to be a constant in all the searching i’ve done) Stay with my logic on this but during my pc search to fix a few off things, I found my xp sp3 install had selected an alternative driver for my dell monitor 2005FPW,.. a radeon 9600 or whatever not really important but I wanted the dell driver from their site that always worked with prior installs. I sort of stumbled on the idea that it was sp3 related when I was searching through the updates on microsofts site for sp3 and noticed that the (2) Hardware, Optional updates they had listed were for a dell 2005FPW monitor and a Realtek hardware update were for the 2 problems I had. I’d tell you the outcome but it’s in the middle of installing 73 updates and will ask me to restart before I can confirm… something to give a try anyway. Hope it helps/works!

By: ayaz

ayaz — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:56:36 +0000

thanks for solution of “no mixer devices available” problem

By: suresh

suresh — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:12:29 +0000

to the moderator of this site…..
sir…u can check my site….the solution to the problem of
(“No Active Mixer…..” / ” Sound and Audio option grayed out in Control panel” ) being faced by many….my suggested solution DOES WORK….

i am not trying to promote my site….i did post the soultion here earlier but the same has been deleted….guess it was too long…

By: Chandler

Chandler — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:33:55 +0000

IF this didn’t work for you, which it didnt to me, this might help.

Start->Control panel->system->Hardware->Device Manager and scan the list for any that might have a pretty big yellow ? on them, i had 2, after installing new drivers for these it allowed me to play with the mixers and set it to my c-wave media device, and now i have sound =)

hope this helps.

By: Penny

Penny — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:00:15 +0000

Mine are not working under device manager. It also has a problem with ethernet. I definitely have a hardware problem. Do those bluetooth stereo speakers work if your audio is messed up? I think that might be one solution.

It doesn’t look as if the authors add much to the forum anymore, huh?

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:00:16 +0000

Solved my problem, thanks for the solution!

By: Mits

Mits — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:45:11 +0000

Hi I followed the steps from DA and reached a deadlock at the have disk stage. I got a browse option with *inf in the file area. Please advise how to proceed next.

My Audio Services are running and enable Automatic but still not sound everything is greyed out.

Pls help !!!

By: khaled

khaled — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:12:59 +0000

Check device mgr – if all are sound devices are working properly – go to start>control panel>admin tools>services – scroll down to Windows audio. Make sure it is set to Automatic and all dependant programs are enabled.

Under the recovery tab select “restart service” for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd failures.

Worked for me….

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:40:41 +0000

I’ve been checking all the solutions and think I might have a hardware problem. I went into the bios and looked to see if it was a plug n play or on the motherboard. I have the sigmatel 9750. Are these physically replaceable or can you try downloading something to see if it just needs a missing software component?

By: zosmatech

zosmatech — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:33:29 +0000

you guys are the best, I got a job interview tomorrow that requires sound on my pc, and out of no where I turn it on with this problem this was the fix…

Thanks.. from some one who never posts.. you guys are a lifesaver!

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:32:45 +0000

Thanks Jan. 25 @ 5:03am anonymous!!! It worked.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:52:44 +0000

Anonymous- Jan 25th
Thank you! I tried every fix available, this finally solved the audio problem!

By: DA

DA — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:20:52 +0000

Same problem here. Audio service is on. I don’t even get to the mizer – just the error. I’ve tried to reinstall the chipset and audio drives. SigmaTel/Dell. Tried everything.
This finally worked:

OK we got it fixed. The plug and play software emulator had was missing.
Fixed by searching for machine.inf then copy to temp directory. remove
at about line 20 ” ExcludeFromSelect=* ”

goto control panel, add new hardware, next (let it seach), yes hardware
is connected, next, scroll to bottom, add new hardware device, next,
install from list, next, select system devices, next, select have disk,
point to amended copy of machine.inf in temp directory, scroll to “plug
and play software device emulator” in right hand column, next and
complete install.

By: K Cannell

K Cannell — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:41:57 +0000

Oscar, all,
No, I have not fixed it yet, but …
I did have a tech support guy check it out for me – he says it is definitely software, that all the things I have done are exactly the right steps, and, the next step is to reinstall the operating system.
I am holding off on this until I get a lull in my projects .. that way IF something goes wrong I have time to recover sanely. It should all go smoothly, I know, but I like to go into these things prepared for the worst.
So, Clonable Type’s support guy (at the beg. of this thread) may not have been off at all.
Will report back when I actually do this …

By: oscar

oscar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:47:03 +0000

K Cannell, you might have the same exact issue as i do since we both have the Sigma audio. Did you ever fix this?

By: K Cannell

K Cannell — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:06:23 +0000

I have the same No active mixer device massage. BUT my Windows Audio service is ON, startup IS set to Automatic.
Plug and Play and RPC services are ON and set to automatic startup (Windows Audios depends on those).
Have SigmaTel High Definition Audio – properties say this is OK.
I have already searched for updates to this – I have the latest version of this driver.
Now what should I try?

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:23:19 +0000

Still not working for me either… can’t do much with no sound.
I did go to the places you guys said to, but like othere it already said it’s running… now what?

By: pRAY

pRAY — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:55:55 +0000

probably some of windows OS copy viruses, this problem I had when tried to get genuine for free to my copy, but there is no crack or hack for that

I use only win doc updates, for Windows, but automatic updates is off

yeah, and we all know how much Windows company lose founds of the pirate copies :)

so they, try to do something, with advertisement and viruses on your copy of WIN OS

By: Andrei

Andrei — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:25:18 +0000

Thanks a lot!
It helped.
But tell me please, what’s the reason for that problem? virus?