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Thank you very much.. im so lucky , i have the Dell Inspiron 7520 too
you helped me alot ..
Thank you very much.. im so lucky , i have the Dell Inspiron 7520 too
you helped me alot ..
OH MY GOD Thank you so much! This problem had confounded me for over 2 years; now it's finally resolved!
I followed your instructions and successfully got Stereo Mix enabled on an Acer 3830tg, which had a Conexant sound card/driver.
Some info for reference/to help others: The specific driver I edited was called "AcrPebwa.inf", in the Windows 7 64bit folder ("W7-64") of a driver package called "Audio_Conexant_8.54.1.55_W7x64". I think I obtained this from the Acer website for my laptop some time ago.
These files were the original downloaded copies, existing outside of System32 and the Windows folder, and therefore did not require any management of file permissions to edit.
The program used to edit the inf file was Notepad++
I had many instances of the commented lines in my inf file (about 35). They appeared to be recurring sets of lines for various models of soundcard hardware (though I could be wrong). I just uncommented all of them via the "Replace All" function.
I switched out the original "AcrPebwa.inf" file and placed my edited version into the original "W7-64" folder within the driver package, and directed the driver installer wizard to the "W7-64" folder. I don't know if this made any difference to anything, as opposed to using a folder with only the inf file in it.
I had some issues with having Windows install the driver:
The steps I took were: "Device Manager" -> Right-click on sound hardware -> "Update Driver" -> Browse to driver folder -> "Next"
Windows refused to use the new file, as it considered the currently installed driver to be up to date and not requiring an update.
This problem was circumvented by following the specific steps for installation within the original instructions in this thread, ie:
"Device Manager" -> Right-click on sound hardware -> "Update Driver" -> "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer" -> "Have Disk" -> Browse to driver folder -> "Next"
I did not have much issue with the lack of driver signing - Windows only informed me of this, and gave me the option to 'install anyway'.
After a restart, Stereo Mix was available in the Recording tab of the Sound control panel.
I'm so happy with this; thanks for posting your solution!
Hi there. I have followed the instructions on this thread to the letter (although I didn't need to change the permissions for some reason), and even though I am using Command Prompt to set the integrity checks off I am STILL receiving 'Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it'. I do a lot of podcasting through audacity, and I desperately need to activate stereo mix on my machine. All these screenshots of successful activations tells me it MUST be something I'm doing wrong (I'm very computer illiterate) but I cannot work out what it is. After posting this I'm going to put the original inf file back in the Conexant folder (it's called oem12.inf on my machine) and try again from the top. But I strongly suspect this won't make a difference and I would really REALLY appreciate some help as I am getting really REALLY frustrated.
Thanks!
Tulty.
You might be missing a few different steps but for a start I don't think you are working with the correct .inf file. My .inf file is called chdrt.inf and is not stored in a Conexant folder but in a folder called:
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\chdrt.inf_amd64_neutral_fa34defac299c440
So your first step is to find exactly where the .inf file is stored so you are making changes to the correct file.
Open up C:\Windows\System32 in Windows Explorer and search for this --> EpSettings\StereoMixEnable
It might take a few minutes but eventually Windows should find a .inf file and it probably won't be called oem12.inf by the way.
Open that file and follow the instructions in my earlier post.
Good Luck!
Oh my god, it worked. Thank you so much, I had almost no hope that a thread from early last year would still help me out, but it actually worked, stereo mix is actually an option now. I had to change the settings of Windows Explorer Search in order to search file contents but I can record from Stereo Mix now.
Thank you SO MUCH!