I tries an advice and I did uninstall, reboot, install Realtek (from the Realtek site) The different outcome was that the Realtek installed without an error like it did with ASUS version. For example, when you look for solutions this code 19, you get nothing useful (for me)! Never what you need! I have never got any help or direction from those codes, ever. I rather do a fresh OS install if I am going to loose my setup! It takes 4 to 5 days to complete my studio! So I am not really keen on that.Īs far as Microsoft and their pointless error codes goes Yikes! PS Google was NOT my friend what so ever. Should I kill myself now or a little later? I tried few stuff from googling like the error codes and no audio problems related stuff, but no dice! So now I have no audio driver listed in my Sound Tab Realtek HD driver could not be Installed !! Error Code: 0x000000FF Realtek on the other hand came up with a new error code: RME had no problem through out the installing process but had no effect on the problem what so ever. So I removed the Acer, Phillips and Virtual cable drivers and I uninstalled and reinstalled these drivers: the Realtek and RME. "Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. The result was, HD Audio Device had a driver problem: ' NOT FIXED!'Ī further analyzing the device status came up with this: So I select 'apply this fix' knowing that this can't be that easy. (I presumed that this must be Realtec that came with my ASUS P9X79 WS) Two of my monitors had audio so they had drivers, plus I had a couple of virtual Midi cable programs which carry audio drivers.) Plus HD Audio drivers and RME Sound card driver.įor my first attempt to trouble shooting sound problem suggested that I might be able to fix my problem by reinstalling the driver for High Definition Audio Devices. (I had more drivers than what the picture said. Although I have to admit there may be some other software installations that may have something to do with all this.Īfter the installation and reboot none of the drivers in 'sound, video and game controllers' were working! They were all there but they all had a yellow ' ? ' sitting on them.
So my latest windows trauma happened right after the last windows 8.1 64 bit based update.