Hi,
To start I am reviving an old laptop which hasn't been turned on in ages! It crashed, and I thought it had been a broken hard drive as it had made an awful noise before it died. Years later did I find that putting in a boot disk let me install the OS, and it worked... and I thought it was a hard drive problem lol. Anyway before it crashed, it was connected to my amp through the SPDIF port.
Now, after having XP Pro installed...I currently have no audio device in my sound settings in the control panel. It is a advent laptop with a built in sound chip, a VIA AC97 chip. I have tried various drivers from around the net which have told me the sound chip is not enabled, and to enable it in the bios. To double check I had the right driver, I used the original driver CD that came with the laptop. This also resulted in the same error telling me to enable the sound chip in the bios.
I have been through the bios many times now and cannot find any option for the sound chip. I have reset the CMOS by leaving the small battery out of the laptop for an hour which reset the bios and my time/date etc.
There is no sign of my sound chip in the device manager. I have had the laptop in pieces, twice, to check the sound chip and it all looks ok. Nothing obvious looks wrong.
I have even tried the original reboot disk, which is a 2002 version of XP home... very old!... and nothing in the bios todo with sound showed up. So back on went XP PRO.
Basically the Motherboard is not recognizing it has a sound chip built into it, but I don't understand how it cannot register it being there?
Is there anything else I can do to get this sound chip working? I really would like the sound back lol.
Specs:
Advent 7001 Laptop
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3, v.3282 (build 2600)
Board: DIXONSXP N355 1.0
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01
Soundchip: Via AC'97 - VT8233 (read from the chip on the board)
I have even seen this is a program called Everest... Which makes no sense?
So to sum up things Ive tried...
Tried the
original os that came with the laptop.
No question marks etc or hardware with no drivers/conflicts etc in device manager...
Nothing in the bios todo with my sound chip....
Windows Audio services are
enabled....
Tried
clearing cmos by taking the small battery out....
Inspected actual audio chip on the board, not sure what im looking for lol but nothing looks wrong to me....
Linear Mode
