Winamp displays message bad direct sound driver error code 88780078

If your default media player is worrking alright then it is possible that the WINAMP installed is having some software issues with your laptop sound driver.
Hence it will be good to uninstall the winamp and choose a new download to be installed and tried.
However if there is issues with the media player then the driver must be reinstalled.

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"

Go to compact and download the driver pack for your computer. It shoul be under support or downloads.

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.

Try going into the device manager and removing the sound driver. Hopefully you have the sound card driver. Then reboot the Pc if the system installs the driver software and you hear noise your good. If that doesn't install it from your cd. If it works try uninstalling the program that caused the problem.

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

Dear sir,
I ahve problem like My laptop is C700 series of compaq(C772TU) I ahve changed it OS from vista to XP and now there is no audio output whenever I try to play a song it gives msg like " Please installproper device or select another device in configuration Error code: 88780078"
please suggest me proper solution

check whether the sound driver and audio codecs are installed in control panel>sound & audio devices...

try reinstalling the sound driver ...
if the same problem persists then the winamp is corrupted try reinstalling that ....

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