Infrablade

RichM, thank you in the most serious way for pointing those of us having SS probs to the D Walker, I Absolutely HATED SonicStage until today, when I read your post. Turns out that all this time, one freakin dll (msdart version 2.71.9030.0) would not update or go away no matter how many times I ran DAO, MSJet or MDAC_TYP. I simply deleted the msdart.dll, and now SonicStage opens with no error. You just saved the lives of all the SonicStage software developers :rasp: THanks Mann!!!!

I did exactly as the FAQ directed many times over just hoping I made a mistake. I pulled it from Connect.com, at first it was from Sony, when I originally installed it. Linked from their support page. No Codec packs that I am aware of, I even went into the device mgr(in safe mode) and removed the Audio Codecs that said Sony ATRAC3, they did do this weird the in returning by themselves, but I figured it was a system fluke and that they were being truly removed. All that remain there are: IMA ADPCM Audio Codec Microsoft ADPCM Audio Codec Microsoft CCITT G.711 Audio Codec Microsoft GSM 6.10 Audio Codec DSP Group TrueSpeech Audio Codec msg 723.acm Windows Media Audio Spiro Lab Telecom Audio Codec Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec Indeo Audio Software Microsoft PCM Converter I read that certain video codecs are bothering the program, but I never found out which ones those are suppose to be.

What if none of this works still, I've done this over and over again, and it still won't work. I was thinking I'd upgrade to SonicStage from OpenMG 2.2, but once it uninstalled OMG and installed itself, and after restarting, it would not start. I've pulled every single thing that looked like it was Sony, yanked every freakin Sony refferrence from my registry and still it gives that F'ed up error. I even reinstalled every update and installed Service Pack 1 over itself. I reinstalled DAO, Jet 4.0 sp8(WindowsXP-KB829558-x86-ENU), MDAC 2.5-2.8, odbc_net, even reinstalled Windows Media 9, and DX9c. I'm out of thoughts with this retarded program, and IT won't let me put OMG back on here, I tried, after the tenth uninstall, to up OMG back and it wouldn't even show up aside from a momentary Splash screen. Please you Gurus have another thought to fix this piece of crap software Blade...