Registered: Jul 2006
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I cannot get the Winamp to work it just keeps saying "Bad Direct Sound Driver. Please install proper drivers or select another devicein configuration. Error code: 88780078"
Why is this?
I'm using an ASUS motherboard P5AD2-E Premium, with a P4 550 3.4Ghz processor and 2MB DDR2RAM
Can you help me please?

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Registered: Dec 2000
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Try the following post
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread...490#post1617490

If you need to reply, please reply to your thread here and not the one(s) link to. Thanks

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Registered: Jun 2003
From: minneapolis/st paul

error code is the same for me too, n the sound card in my system is a radion ati




no more passing this around back between forums

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Registered: Jun 2003
From: minneapolis/st paul

IM GETTING THE EXACT SAME ERROR CODE, AND I HAVE A RADION!!!



I DID THE RECOMMENDED FIX AFTER JUMPING BACK TO THE OTHER FORUM AND I GOT ANOTHER ERROR CODE,THAT SAYS I DONT HAVE A DAMN SOUND CARD, WINAMP DOESNOT DETECT A SOUND CARD AND THAT I SHOULD GO OUT AND BUY ONE, .....THE NERVE WHAT THE HELL KIND OF ERROR MESSAGE IS THAT.

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Registered: Jun 2000
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ati radeon is a graphics card, not a sound card.

The "error code: 888780078" message is not generated by winamp.
The system generates all those types of error messages.

Basically, it means that there's a problem with whatever Output Device you've selected in: Winamp > Prefs > Plugins > Output > out_ds > config

Either change it to match your Sound card device driver
or (re)install latest sound card drivers (and maybe also DirectX).

Based on the lack of info provided, we can't really offer any further advice
(a dxdiag log might be a good place to start).


ps. don't type all in caps :/

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Registered: Jun 2003
From: minneapolis/st paul

usually i dont have anything to post in here. for the most part i never have problems with winamp, well like mabe two times now, but this was odd. really odd, its been a strange week on the internet, lots of bizzar stuff with programs, and sites and just madness.


on the off chance i missed something when i got the error message that there was no sound card detected i decided to reboot my machine, and it fixed itself. i dont know what that was about but i think it wasnt a winamp issue at all, and that mabe it may have been a bug, of some sort. because of all the other weirdness this past week. notice the time frame on the 25th.


my system rebooted, my settings picked, and everything fixed etc. so i cant really say why i got the error message, or why the settings were changed in winamp, yeah thats another weird thing, i never go into settings, all my settings are default for the most part. so seeing some cracky setting in the audio out was a red flag for me. i switched it back, and reset everything then rebooted my computer, and again its fixed now.


i dunno, its a bugger out here for sure, thanks for the reply .....you the best as always but you may want to um check things at your end, just incase you know, because there was so much weirdness this week. im just sayin, hey. by now, good day to you sir and much love for the winamp pplz.

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Registered: May 2008
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I cannot get the Winamp to work it just keeps saying "Bad Direct Sound Driver. Please install proper drivers or select another devicein configuration. Error code: 88780078"
Why is this?

Can you help me please?

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Registered: Jun 2000
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Originally posted by DJ Egg
The "error code: 888780078" message is not generated by winamp.
The system generates all those types of error messages.

Basically, it means that there's a problem with whatever Output Device you've selected in: Winamp > Prefs > Plugins > Output > out_ds > config

Either change it to match your Sound card device driver
or (re)install latest sound card drivers (and maybe also DirectX).

Based on the lack of INFO provided, we can't really offer any further advice
(a dxdiag log might be a good place to start).

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Registered: Jun 2003
From: minneapolis/st paul

not the first message but that error code issue. there have been a few upgrades since that post. Its funny getting an email 2 years later!
I love forums!

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