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  • ADM_DSOUND_MIXER_OPEN_ERROR (not all caps)

    Posted by Alex Bond on September 12, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Hi,

    I am trying to install Avid Xpress Pro 4.3 on a HP Laptop and keep getting this message when I try and run the Avid:

    ADM_DSOUND_MIXER_OPEN_ERROR

    I’ve seen a few forums which say I’ve got to make sure the default capture and output audio settings match (which they do) and that the default box at the bottom of the window is checked (which it is) but this has not fixed the fault.

    any ideas?

    Laptop is:

    HP
    Intel(R) Core (TM)2 CPU
    T5500 @ 1.66GHz
    1.66 GHz, 2 GB of RAM

    Running:

    MS Windows XP
    Media Center Edition
    Service Pack 2

    Piotr Niemcewicz replied 17 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
  • 5 Replies
  • Jon Zanone

    September 13, 2008 at 11:07 pm

    The biggest problem I see is your OS – you need XP Professional, svc pack 2. Media Center works, then it doesn’t. At least that’s what I’ve heard from people who try to run it.

    Jon

    “Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
    And telling us stuff that we already know”

    Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
    Billy Joe Shaver

  • Alex Bond

    September 14, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    er…I have XP and Service Pack 2, is that different to SVC 2?

  • Piotr Niemcewicz

    November 20, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Realtec codec..

    try use extrenal sound card like Sound Blaster

  • Alex Bond

    November 20, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    Thanks for the response but nothing worked.

    Bought XP Pro with SP2 and that did nothing to help.

    In the end we gave up, after 5 days of trying to make a perfectly good laptop with all the correct system requirements for Avid to work, and managed to get it up and running on an ordinary, 3 year old Sony Vaio which didn’t even have XP Pro.

    Thanks again though

  • Piotr Niemcewicz

    November 20, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    oh, no.. realtek codec in SOUND CHIP, no software…

    only hardware.. please chceck your sound chip mounted in laptop

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