Asus motherbord no sound P5PL2 intel 945PL Chipset support 650

Found something on this, just follow the link below.

http://blogote.com/2010/windows-ideas/fix-bad-directsound-driver-error-code-88780078-in-windows-xp.html

re-install the chipset driver.
Than try the soundcard driver restart and than the rest of drivers.
Restart after every installation.

Assuming you are running windows XP, you can follow this link to ert your drivers:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

My long standing WinAmp suddely started giving me the following message: "Bad Direct Sound driver, Please install proper drivers or select another device in configuration. Error code 88780078"

That error appears when you don't have proper sound card drivers installed. please reinstall them and the problem is solved

1.) Open Winamp
2.) Press and hold down Ctrl+P (for preferences)
3.) Go to Plug-ins --> Output
4.) Double click on "DirectSound output"
5.) Click on the Driver tab
6.) Make sure the device in the drop-down list correctly reflects your soundcard.

Further DirectSound config tweaks....
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?...

This may just do it for you folks...please leave rating, thank you kindly

sounds like the sound card is dying, or the sound codec's are wrong.

check the sound drivers in device manager. if it gives yellow sign then re-install sound drivers.

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).
You can also run (Start/Run( dxdiag.
Look under "Sound to see what the problem is.
This often means you need to reinstall or update your sound drivers.

hello,
I have a problem with my computer.I have installed win xp and my audio driver is not working well.It returns this error code 88780078 .i can't uninstall it,i've tryied to reinstall win xp...same error .the computer is brand new and don't know what is the problem...please help me