Same shit here, I use my travelmate 2040 to hook up to my stereo,spewing, jack stuffed, went through absolutely everything, everywhere, done the stand-by worked for a while until the day came and nothing worked anymore. Reloaded realtek and thousand other patches and fixes, but what got me back, at least to the stand-by fix was the patch below, posted by someone else in the thread here!. Tomorrow I am going to get a USB to jack adapter and I am done with it. Really read everything even in german.
Thanks dudes, cool forum here,
If someone should have the yellow questionmark problem in mass storage controller, download: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated Flash Media Controller. Gets your SD card slot up again.
Cheers Fiebiger
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