no audio

[Unregistered]

Anyone else experience this problem? When my 220a comes out of standby/sleep mode I have no audio. Have checked the device manager and it show everyhything working properly. The only thing that makes it work again is a restart. Any ideas? thanks!

[Ioman]

I think I read somewhere else about this happeneing. I think the fix was to uninstall the audio drivers and reinstall them. Did you check to see if there is updated drivers on the VPR Matrix website?

[zoofer]

UPDATED drivers? How can you tell if the drivers available at the VPR Matrix website are updated or not?

You would think the geniuses who run the VPR Matrix website had never needed to download a device driver from a manufacturer's website before. Check the downloads page at the websites for Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. and each driver listed has - at a minimum - a date and version number next to it, so you can tell at a glance whether or not the driver has been updated. That's not the case at VPR Matrix. We are forced to download the driver before we can determine if it is newer than the one we're already using. That's insanity.

That is by far the biggest pet-peeve I have with VPR Matrix.

[Nimbus]

Go to device manager, uninstall the sound card. Then restart the computer. It will reinstall upon restart and that should solve the problem.

[lotivictor]

My VPR 220A audio "slowly" got weaker and weaker until it was almost inaudible. Not too sure which game software or DVD player package may have caused the problem, but in any case, it was easily solved by un-installing the audio driver thru the "Device Manager" and rebooting the system.

Here are detailed steps on how I did it after learning everyone else's postings:

A) Open up the "Device Manager"
1. RightClick on your "My Computer" icon
2. select "Properties". This will bring up your "System Properties".
3. Select the "Hardware" tab.
4. Click the "Device Manager" button. This will bring up the "Device Manager".
B) DoubleClick on "Sound, video, and game controllers
C) DoubleClick on "Audio Codecs"
D) Click on the "Properties" tab.
E) Select "imaadp32.acm" and the "Remove" button.
F) You will get all these "Warnings" of disabling your system, don't worry, click "Yes" to remove it.
G) Reboot your system...
H) and since you've probably had your volume dial set to "10", your system will GREET you very loudly with that Windows HELLO WORLD ding...

[TroyG]

Well, I tried lotivictor's directions, and the imaadp32.acm codec never came back. The file is still in the system32 directory, but it doesn't seem to be "registered" with the system.

Anyone have some thoughts on restoring it? (Windows XP SP1)

AND my audio is sitll VERY QUIET. Grrrr....

Troy

[lotivictor]

No, I did not throw out my VPR.

I just un-installed the VPR audio driver and have been using the default WinXP drivers for over a month now.

GoodLuck,
LotiVictor