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April 26th, 2005 21:00
Crystal Audio Driver problem under Win 2000
Hi,
First to say, that I'm posting from Germany, so apologize my poor English. I hope that you recognize my translated error messages. I didnt find a German Dell Forum ...
I was using my laptop (Latitude C610) with the pre-installed Win 98 and by the time got all kind of problems except of audio problems. Then I formatted the HD and installed Win 2000. As I didnt have the Driver CD any more, I used the newest drivers from the Dell website (Chipset drivers too). During the installation of the audio drivers for Crystal CS4205 the process broke down with a failure concerning the "cwawdm.sys"-file. It said "The driver could not be loaded". So that made an unsuccessfull installation, I no sound device was installed (so I even couldn't try to play some audio).
I tried everything to solve the problem for hours. I disconnect every device (external Floppy, mouse, Network cable, modem) and deactivated the ports (com1, ...) in the bios. I also flashed the bios with the newest version. Then I read something about other drivers, that may work. So i tried the Intel AC 97 and the one from Avanche. Same failure.
The sound card must be working. It worked before under Win 98 and it works under Knoppix (Linux boot cd), too. Do you have any idea?
Thanks for help,
Philippe
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NGUVU
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May 10th, 2005 15:00
SuperVisor85
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May 11th, 2005 18:00
bar9
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June 4th, 2006 22:00
I am having exactly the same problem with a cwadwm.sys file location error. I have installed wondows XP however on my Dell C510. Can you tell me if you have reolved this problem, its driving me crazy having no sound!
Barry
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June 4th, 2006 23:00
Win2000 does not come with the latest directx
Download directx and install then install the current driver. All software should be installed as local Administrator.
DirectX 9.0c October 2005 - Redistributable for Software Developers - Multilingual http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/a/3da1fee0-ccfe-4a18-b7d2-421f2d664008/directx_9c_oct05sdk_redist.exe
Crystal CS4205 Driver Release Title: Audio: Crystal CS4205, Driver, Multi OS, Multi Language, Multi System, v.6.13.10.4159, A09 Release Date: 10/21/2002 Description: Crystal CS4205 WDM Driver
ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/C5mua09i.exe
Message Edited by SpeedStep on 06-04-200608:46 PM
bar9
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June 5th, 2006 09:00
I followed the instructions you gave. I logged in as administrator in safe mode. I uninstalled the previous Crystal Audio controller in Device manager from the Sound, Video and Game controllers tab. I installed the Directx and then installed the driver. Everything seemed to go smoothly. I then restarted and I was presented with the same problem (to locate a file)
The file 'cwawdm.sys' on Crystal AC 9x WDM driver Disk is needed.
In Device manager there is the following:
+++ Other Devices
+--- Wireless card
+++ Sound, Video and Game controllers
+--- Audio codecs
+--- !Multimedia audio controller (there is a yellow exclamation mark beside this)
+--- Legacy Audio drivers
+--- Legacy video capture devices
+--- Media control devices
+--- Video codecs
Shouldnt I see the sound card listed under Other devices also.
,Barry
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June 5th, 2006 10:00