Possible Fix for Missing XP Audio!

Thank you very much!

After spending a lot of time trying to solve this I found your post and followed your instructions, it worked perfectly.
I really appreciate your help; I was frustrated, and it's very important to me.

Again, thank you!
 
Worked Great

Pandora and Jango were crashing my browsers so I figured perhaps the fact that i didnt have an audio controller installed was probably playing a role in this. Within 10 minutes, i had everything worked out and i am glad to say, pandora and jango are both rocking my socks. thanks
 
Beautiful !! Thanks !
Suggestion: Include links to this message in the other unresolved threads.
I found it through Google instead of the Parallels Support.
 
Soul780 said:
Thanks for the idea folks, I'm having the same sort of issue - only I get scrambled audio. I've tried a number of different fixes on different sites and either the drivers crash the virtual machine, or they give me scrambled audio. I can make out the XP system sounds (just barely), but music and what not are completely un-listenable.

My question is about the removal of previous drivers - what file names do I look for.?

Originally, my audio device would show up with an exclamation mark next to "multimedia audio controller"...I deleted two files that I recognized from my previous installations of drivers, and then ran the fix. Now the device shows up as "Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver" - with the same exclamation point next to it.

Getting pretty frustrated, but I need to get this working! Please help!
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I am having this similar problem, as there is no Intel driver listed. It just says 'multimedia audio controller' as well.
 
if you get a multimedia audio controller with an exclamation in device manager and no intel bam whatever yet, that means you need to uninstall through control panel parallel tools, then back to device manager, and put the windows cd in and it should be able to change multimedia audio control to intel whatever, and then you can run the driver update if still needed.
 
different initial driver

this fix worked great for me!! thanks! the only thing was, my initial question mark showed up next to the "multimedia audio controller" so i just followed the instructions to update that, using the same driver you provided. worked great! just wanted to pass along my slight difference, in case there were any others out there getting confused from the start because the didn't have the right file...
 
After 5+ hours of trying to figure this out, cbpeaches first post fixed my problem completely. Thank you so much!

To parallels support: Thanks for nothing but being mind numbingly incompetent regarding this and other issues. This is an interesting VM product for its intent of tight integration with the host OS etc. But in many ways, it's worse than free, open source or cheaper (if you count support costs of time spent!) competing products. I'm currently a very disheartened customer. Earn my money. Do better. Maybe offer cbpeaches some contract work to put your support team in shape!
 
Soul780 said:
Thanks for the idea folks, I'm having the same sort of issue - only I get scrambled audio. I've tried a number of different fixes on different sites and either the drivers crash the virtual machine, or they give me scrambled audio. I can make out the XP system sounds (just barely), but music and what not are completely un-listenable.

My question is about the removal of previous drivers - what file names do I look for.?

Originally, my audio device would show up with an exclamation mark next to "multimedia audio controller"...I deleted two files that I recognized from my previous installations of drivers, and then ran the fix. Now the device shows up as "Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver" - with the same exclamation point next to it.

Getting pretty frustrated, but I need to get this working! Please help!
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Do as in the first post. IT WORKS! Finally I can play Monkey Island 3!
 
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