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Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) is a computer audio interface driver protocol for digital audio specified by Steinberg, providing high data throughput, synchronization, and low latency between a software application and a computer's audio interface or sound card. [1]
Virtual Audio Cable is a software product based on WDM multimedia driver that allows a user to transfer audio streams from one application to another. Any application is able to send an audio stream to the input side of a "virtual cable" while a corresponding application can receive this stream from the output side.
Attempts by the guest operating system to access the hardware are routed to the virtual device driver in the host operating system as e.g., function calls. The virtual device driver can also send simulated processor-level events like interrupts into the virtual machine. Virtual devices may also operate in a non-virtualized environment.
The Service Pack 3 update to Windows XP and all later versions of Windows (from Vista onwards) included the Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) class driver, which supported audio devices built to HD Audio's specifications. Retrospective UAA drivers were also built for Windows 2000, Server 2003 and XP Service Pack 1/2.
The USB specification defines a standard interface, the USB audio device class, allowing a single driver to work with the various USB sound devices and interfaces on the market. Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux support this standard. However, some USB sound cards do not conform to the standard and require proprietary drivers from the manufacturer.
Windows 1.0: Device Manager: Allows the user to display and control the hardware attached to the computer, and control what device drivers are used devmgmt.msc: Windows 95: Windows Mobility Center: Centralizes the most relevant information related to mobile computing mblctr.exe: Windows Vista: Security and Maintenance
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Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. 42: Windows cannot run the driver for this device because there is a duplicate device already running in the system. 43: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. 44: An application or service has shut down this hardware ...