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    Launching browser knocks out my sound drivers!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by graphicdesigner, Mar 13, 2007.

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    Can anyone help? When I start my Sony SZ 330p machine, all is fine... if I look at Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices, all is well. And I can double click Sound Reality Audio and it launches fine.

    But the SECOND I launch a brower-- either Firefox or IE7-- it wipes out the soundcard. Under Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices, it will suddenly say "No audio device." And when I try to double-click my Sound Reality Audio icon in the Control Panel, I get the error message "An exception occurred while trying to run C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\system32\stac97.cpl",Sound Reality Audio"

    Can anyone provide any help? Could it be an outdated Java or DirectX?

    Interestingly, even after it disables my soundcard, I can still play Winamp and hear all system sounds. But I can't hear any sound through anything I play over the web, such as a video or flash.


    Any help much appreciated! This is a 2-month old Sony SZ 300p, running XP SP2 with all updates.
     
    graphicdesigner, Mar 13, 2007
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