DSOUND.DLL Problem

[ME2]

Every time I boot up W7 I get this error:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DSOUND.DLL is either not designed to run on
windows or it contains an error.

I have tried a few suggestions I found via Google, but I must not be
doing things right. Can anyone suggest a way to get rid of the error
that worked for you?

Thanks

ME

 

[Ken1943]

Every time I boot up W7 I get this error:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DSOUND.DLL is either not designed to run on
windows or it contains an error.

I have tried a few suggestions I found via Google, but I must not be
doing things right. Can anyone suggest a way to get rid of the error
that worked for you?

Thanks

ME

DirectSound
File version: 6.1.7600.16385

Is the one I have, but I don't know what uses it.


KenW

 

[ME2]

DirectSound
File version: 6.1.7600.16385

Is the one I have, but I don't know what uses it.


KenW

Wow. Direct Sound downloading sites seem a mess of garbage sites to
me. Do you happen to have the address for a download site for
6.1.7600.16385?

I would appreciate same.

Thanks

ME

 

[Phantom Post]

Wow. Direct Sound downloading sites seem a mess of garbage sites to
me. Do you happen to have the address for a download site for
6.1.7600.16385?

I would appreciate same.

Thanks

ME

I don't know a lot about this stuff but directsound is somehow a part of
direct x. See if this link helps you at all:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279001

 

[Paul]

Wow. Direct Sound downloading sites seem a mess of garbage sites to
me. Do you happen to have the address for a download site for
6.1.7600.16385?

I would appreciate same.

Thanks

ME

In "ancient times", we'd run "dxdiag" program. From a command
prompt. And a window would open and show stuff. Including
all the files installed for DirectX.

On the Windows 7 laptop, I had to click the "Save all information"
button at the bottom, to get a good synopsis.

On my WinXP machine (DirectX 9) I have:

dsound.dll: 5.03.2600.5512 English Final Retail 4/14/2008 12:00:00 367616 bytes

whereas on the Windows 7 SP1 machine, quartz.dll is used a lot instead.
DXDIAG made no mention of dsound.dll, implying it's not an official part
of whatever version of DirectX is on my laptop.

Default DirectSound Device,0x00800000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713
DirectSound: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio),0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713

Now, even though dxdiag doesn't list it, there are files of that
description actually on the Win7 computer. This is from a listing I keep,
from Aug2012. It appears there are 32 and 64 bit versions, linked from
the Store. Maybe they're kept for compatibility, to fool games or something.
But they did not appear in the DirectX listing. So maybe they're a
compatibility layer, get called by older games, and link to quartz.dll
or something.

C:\Windows\SysWOW64:
-rw------- 2 username 453632 2009-07-13 21:15 dsound.dll

C:\Windows\System32:
-rw------- 2 username 540672 2009-07-13 21:40 dsound.dll

C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-audio-dsound_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_5872147ba3367471:
-rw------- 2 username 453632 2009-07-13 21:15 dsound.dll

C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-audio-dsound_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_b490afff5b93e5a7:
-rw------- 2 username 540672 2009-07-13 21:40 dsound.dll

Someone tried to fix that dsound.dll error message here, with SFC /SCANNOW.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ted-file/e0c3bf20-844b-4517-a291-26b162583ed1

If you don't have a real installer DVD (like with my laptop, there
is only the Acer restore stuff), then you'd try to download
a DVD image from DigitalRiver (a supplier of electronic versions
of Windows 7). For example, I have Windows 7 Home Premium images
I got, by looking for X17-24208.iso (32 bit OS), or X17-24209.iso
(64 bit OS). Since my OS was already at SP1 (I did the update),
I got those disks in case I ever needed to do a repair install.
You're more likely to find DigitalRiver SP1 discs, than original release.
So you're better off updating to SP1 if you haven't already.

Occasionally, the 32 bit DVD comes in handy, which is why I need
both. The 64 bit DVD is the one I'd actually use for the repair
install. But if I needed a 32 bit copy of bootsect say, I can
get that from the 32 bit ISO9660. I'm one of those "belt and
suspenders" people, which is why I downloaded both.

Pop X17-24209.iso into your search engine, and you should be
able to find a URL for a download link. That's assuming
DigitalRiver hasn't stopped selling Windows 7 of course.
Some day, the "River" is going to dry up People should be
prepared for that dry era, when it comes. Get your SP1
DVD image while you still can. You'll need it, someday.

SFC /SCANNOW, if it needs files, would like to have an installer
disc containing them. That's for anything that hasn't been patched
perhaps. The couple times I've run SFC in the past, it was
quite "creaky". To make it work on WinXP, I had to edit two
registry entries, so it could find the i386 folder on the CD.
I don't know if Windows 7 requires manual intervention or not.
I've not had reason to run SFC there.

"Use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or
corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

Paul

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

DirectSound
File version: 6.1.7600.16385

Is the one I have, but I don't know what uses it.


KenW

(What version is the one you have, ME2?)

Since it seems to be something to do with sound, I would not have
_thought_ its absence should actually stop Windows from booting. Since
some people have found that their system may not use it, I'd be inclined
to rename it, and see if any (new) error message gives an indication
what _does_ use it; that may help point to where to get a new one if
it's other than the one that is part of Windows. (Has this error message
just recently started appearing, or been there since you've been using
7? If the latter, how do you come to have 7 - came with the computer, or
what?)

Just in _case_ renaming it _does_ prevent booting altogether, maybe only
do it if you have some way of booting into something else from which you
can rename it back. I don't _think_ it will stop the system booting
though, since the error message above suggests it's not being
loaded/used anyway (and booting is continuing).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can
still ripen a bunch of grapes as it if had nothing else in the universe to do.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

 

[ME2]

(What version is the one you have, ME2?)

I wish I knew. How do I determine that in W7?

Since it seems to be something to do with sound, I would not have
_thought_ its absence should actually stop Windows from booting. Since
some people have found that their system may not use it, I'd be inclined
to rename it, and see if any (new) error message gives an indication
what _does_ use it; that may help point to where to get a new one if
it's other than the one that is part of Windows. (Has this error message
just recently started appearing, or been there since you've been using
7? If the latter, how do you come to have 7 - came with the computer, or
what?)

Came with computer.

Just in _case_ renaming it _does_ prevent booting altogether, maybe only
do it if you have some way of booting into something else from which you
can rename it back.

Can't rename it - says I don't have permissions to do that.

I don't _think_ it will stop the system booting
though, since the error message above suggests it's not being
loaded/used anyway (and booting is continuing).

If I accept the error, boot continues correctly.

ME

 

[Ken1943]

Every time I boot up W7 I get this error:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DSOUND.DLL is either not designed to run on
windows or it contains an error.

I have tried a few suggestions I found via Google, but I must not be
doing things right. Can anyone suggest a way to get rid of the error
that worked for you?

Thanks

ME

You could try running sfc/(space)scannow . That may correct the error.
My guess that some program installed an older version (if your version
doesn't = my version). Will Google dsound.dll to see what pops up.


KenW

 

[JCO]

Have you searched the Registry for this exact string?


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Every time I boot up W7 I get this error:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DSOUND.DLL is either not designed to run on
windows or it contains an error.

I have tried a few suggestions I found via Google, but I must not be
doing things right. Can anyone suggest a way to get rid of the error
that worked for you?

Thanks

ME