At 04:41 PM 28/08/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote:
In the past I've almost always found that meant the device was toast if Windows couldn't find it on boot up. You've forced Windows to find it when you load the drivers but if Windows never sees the device on boot up it won't even try to load the drivers. I have seen the audio go out on laptops before & if the audio doesn't show up as at least an unknown device in the DM then you're out of luck. I'm assuming that after a reboot it doesn't show up in the Control Panel/Sound & Audio Devices either.
That's the strange thing. The device always shows up in Device Manager and always says it is working properly. It just doesn't appear in the Sound and Audio Devices applet. This is an old, abused laptop (I had to resolder the power connector) so it is certainly possible that the sound card is failing, but it feels like software to me.
We have a local shop that doesn't like onboard audio in desktops & sells the lusers a new sound card when they don't need it but in your case you can't do that.
Heh heh. We have one of those two. Then they sell them cards based on the Vortex chip - how long has Aureal been gone? Five years? Six?
T
