| All comments about smax4pnp.exe: |
 Sable | I know that it is the driver that runs Sound Max on my Intel 865GBF. I don't need it as I use Creative Lab Sound Blaster Live instead. It can be disabled in system settings. |
 Ben! | Driver for built-in sound card on Asus mobo |
| jn | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, but appears to be harmless otherwise |
| Joe Grant | I know that if you want to delete it, it isn't as difficult as everyone says. I'm not a computer guy, sop I don't know about removing registry items and such. So, in Spybot, after you have fixed the problem, go to recovery. You will see that spybot has backed up SMax4PNP. Just chose to "purge" this item. I haven't had it sence. |
| | SoundMax Drivers, in my case for ASUS P4P800-E |
| ghostface | SoundMax Drivers not dangerous |
| | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, but appears to be harmless otherwise |
| DonFouse | It appears to be unneeded as sound still works. I think it senses changes to what is plugged in to sound ports. Startcop will find and disable or remove. It hangs up my PC on shutdown also. |
| | SoundMax Drivers |
 SHansen | I downloaded it from a website that was supposed to make it so I could download movies onto my computer. I am not able to do that and ever since I installed it, my computer frequently freezes up and that is said to be running. I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of it. Scans that I have done says I have no malicious spy ware on my computer yet another program I have keeps telling me that I do. |
 Josephtan Chenghock | smax4pnp is an sound card for computer |
| sandguy | SoundMax Drivers have redundent problems when you try to shut it of |
| Waldo | Interferes with MS Money 2006 Deluxe |
 | I was trying to open "My Documents" like I do everyday, but it gave me a blank white box with none of my files, and my cursor told me my computer was working hard, poor thing. CTRL+ALT+DELETE told me that 'My Documents' was Not Responding. Since this stuff usually happens when something wicked snuck onto my computer, I looked at my processes on task manager, and the first thing that stood out was smax4pnp, since I've never seen it before in my life. Decided that, because of this site, I should get rid of it, I did so. Tried to open My Documents again and voila! It works. |
| Deb | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, not sure if it is harmless or not. |
| Shawn | Soundmax driver, for those of you who said it hangs up thier logoff, had the same issue, completly remove the soundmax installation, than reinstall, haven't had the logoff issue since. |
 Lola | Every time I ever had a problem with my computer and shut it down, microsoft memo says this progam is running. |
| Ace | SoundMax Drivers for a couple of ASUS Boards |
| Ash | Freezes occasionally when I have put the computer into standby or hibernate. I don't use its environmental effects so I just disabled it. |
| Blizzard | SoundMax Driver, not dangerous. Itīs a common problem that this driver freezes the computer sometimes if shutting down. But if the file is located in WINDOWS\System32, it can be a cloaked virus, so be careful. |
| Root4u | Soundmax soundcard software, in this case HP laptop |
| hakkelikuk | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, but appears to be harmless otherwise |
| T'Surakmaat | high and constant page faults! even though it only takes about 8M of memory, it constantly generates page faults, which makes no sense... i removed it and all seems well. if you don't want it to load at boot, try renaming it to DONOTLOAD_SMax4PMP.exe and see what happens... you can always rename it back. |
| Bounce | Comes with audio driver for SoundMax audio chip (usually with VIA chip). Causes problems when shutting off Windows XP system (fails to close). Solution is to disable the start-up of this program using MSCONFIG. |
| Dil | Definatly related to the Soundmax card on your machine. Knew nothing about it until I looked on this site, Thanks Google and ZoneAlarms for picking it up. I followed the advice from this site to uninstall it with Device Manager, It did solve my hang up issues when closing down the pc, and as ever XP just installs it when you re-boot.. WARNING, for those of you out there that like to do a complete cleanup before re-booting(Recommended for EVERY RE-BOOT of XP sorry Gates! Operating System you cannot do! Bing back DOS! |
| Laura | SMax4PNP was keeping my computer from shutting down. I went to start/run/type in msconfig/OK/ then go to the startup tab and uncheck it. |
| Sponge | SoundMax also feature on the dell 8400 standard Mobo. I have a SB Audigy2 card as well so don't use it. Only time it has caused problems is in setting up a microphone. |
| Max W | Reinstalling latest version of driver for Intel board didn't fix problem with hanging. Reinstalling earlier version I had archive seems to have worked |
| | SoundMax Drivers, Harmless. |
| Shortodd | It keeps giving me an error message when I start up my computer |
| Kyle | Drivers of SoundMax sound cards. Some versions are known to be buggy and hang systems. |
| komani | smax4pnp.exe obviously is an additional sound driver that came with the software cd included with my samsung notebook. the driver causes problems everytime i shut down the computer. de- and re-installing didn't solve the problem. I installed another sound driver included with windows xp2, which works fine, but the smax-driver offers more options / features, so i'm not quite sure if it's needed for advanced settings of this special notebook and its audio devices etc.!?! but i'm sure it's not dangerous in MY case as i installed it from original cd .. See also: Link |
| | Soundmax driver, after reinstalling driver from manufacture, the lockup problems went away. |
| hydra | its new for my PC task manager list of processes. I removed it and cant find Soundmax in myPCs Add - Remove programs list |
| | Sound Max, alright, as clean exe file. However, trojans come dressed as this sound file. Have your SoundMax Driver files available. Boot to safemode. Go to C:\program files\analog devices\soundmax. Locate Smax4pnp.exe and rename to Smax4pnp.exe.old. Go to the SoundMax driver files you have available and run setup.exe. When finished. Restart and load windows normally. It worked for me and reinstalled the true version of Smax4pnp.exe. Check by locating c:\program files |
| Fnp | It always gives me an error message |
| kaaposc | SoundMAX system core utility for "advanced jack-sensing and enumeration feature" support. If you do not mangle with various sound input/output devices (speakers, ear-phones, microphones etc.) all time, You can safely remove it from registry startup. If ever needed, it can be switched on in SMax control panel. See also: Link |
| Ken Webster | ocasional pain on shutdown, requiring user to click "end now" in order to proceed with shutdown.I'm frustrated and still investigating....considering deletion |
| IBM User | The smax4pnp.exe process puts an icon in the system tray. This icon gives you quick access to some of the features of the SoundMax software that was installed with your soundcard drivers. If you do not use the system tray icon it is safe to stop this process. See also: Link |
| Ned | Sound Max Driver (version 4) plug-n-play ( for when you plug in your speakers / mic, makes you get that dialog box asking what you plugged in....) |
| DeadFire | smax4pnp.exe is part of the SoundMAX software/driver package for onboard sound on many motherboards. It is not necessary for sound to work after the drivers are installed. However, it does seem to be necessary if you wish to use the SoundMAX Control Panel software. Both of these will run on startup after the software installation, and can be safely disabled without hurting basic sound functionality. smax4pnp.exe is only necessary if you wish to use the additional "features" of the SoundMAX Control Panel software, which will not run properly without it. Also, like others, I have experienced occ See also: Link |
| johanhelmons | comes with soundmax drivers from Analog Devices See also: Link |
| Alfa52 | Driver for built-in sound card on Asus mobo |
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| ruddin | it keeps freezing my comp during shut down... |
| Bill | Seems to cause Hellgate: London to fail to update multiplayer patches |
| | Definitely not dangerous at all. |
| BetYouNoOneReadsThis | driver that comes with SoundMax, causes problems in games |
| Echizen | It's a soundmax driver, although seems to cause many problems for many people, including myself. Get a different soundcard and get rid of this, it's a windows explorer nightmare |
| Daniel | Doesn't appear to be malicious. IE froze while I was looking at a Java page (is that considered malicious yet?) and Task Manager said smax4pnp.exe was the culprit. I killed it, killed the Java page, and everything returned to normal. I blame Microsoft. |
| Ocino | The 4.0 version has a memory leak that freeses the Windows task bar first and than the whole operating system. Otherwise harmless. |
| joe | it recently poped up in my task manager process list, it was never there, I check regularly. |
| yeahlikeimgonnaleavemyname | My soundmax came with my asus crosshair board, which came with it's own "sound card." I had a BSOD one day from a bad ram chip, and it started giving an error message "Your hardware configuration has changed. You must re-install SoundMax." I have, and have uninstalled the old one, yet i STILL get this error message EVERY STARTUP. Doesn't seem to be harmful, but the useless error message is extremely annoying. My sound still works (both speakers and mic). |
| Sally | SMAX4PNP only lets me close down if I hit the END NOW button |
| Tony | Fixed shutdown problem in ThinkPad A31p by removing SoundMax driver using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel then getting new audio driver from Lenovo. |
| Buster | Keeps me from shutting down my computer. Just delete the file and then restart ur computer. The file will reload from the net and all should be fine. Worked for me. No more problems. I think it gets corrupted over time. |
| Vladimir | As I know, it-s SoundMax driver on my Windows XP |
| Adriano Z. | smax4pnp.exe is a process installed for Analog Devices audio products. You can disable this unless you are using the advanced features of the sound system (e.g., surround sound). If you need to change any settings, you can use control panel / Sound (or SoundMAX). See also: Link |
| BetterPCPerformance.com | Harmless file related to SoundMax soundcard drivers. Can be safely removed if advanced effects and other features are not required. See also: Link |
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