Downgraded Vista to XP and Soundcard not recognized

[ThinkpadLuvr]

    Any help would be appreciated. I downgraded Vista to XP and now there is no sound, no sound card is recognized, and I've download every driver imaginable in an effort to get the sound card recognized and sound working again.

Anyone else have this problem?

Vista seemed way to slow, and that's why I reverted back to XP. I really don't want to reinstall/use Vista if I can avoid it.

Thanks.

[ThinkpadLuvr]

By the way, notebook is a R61 7732-CTO

Intel GM965 Chipset, Core 2 Duo Penryn T8100

Thanks


Message Edited by ThinkpadLuvr on 05-25-2008 03:05 PM

Message Edited by ThinkpadLuvr on 05-25-2008 09:07 PM

[wirechief]

Sounds like your headed in the right direction, I would use the Lenovo drivers for WinXP since there are so many things that Lenovo has customized with their hardware.

[andyP Community SuperMod]

It probably needs the UAA High Definition Audio driver. It can be found on the Audio Driver page if you scroll down a bit

[likuidkewl]

As side note XP SP3 available today(29-APR-08) has the HD Audio driver included in the SP.
I found this out during a slipstream fresh re-install of the XP Pro to SP3.
It works great!

[ThinkpadLuvr]

Hey everyone. I've been kind of busy for the last  month or so, but I've tried EVERYTHING - downloaded all drivers, SP3 (for XP), researched forum after forum, and I still don't have any audio. None.

Not only do I not have any audio, but the volume buttons and the Thinkvantage button do absolutely nothing - it's as if they're broken, and my keyboard does not work about 20% of the time, which requires me to have to restart my system.

I really don't know what to do here. Everything worked fine with the Vista Home Basic, but I couldn't take the slowness of Vista, and when I swapped to XP (which is much faster), I started to have all these problems.

I'm at a loss. Any additional suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[pk]

Did you install the chipset drivers?   I have the same model, downgraded to XP from Vista Business due to some instabilities, and got it all to work.. except for one unidentifiable "PCI device".  

The audio drivers generally won't work at all until the chipset drivers are installed.

HTH

-pk

[ThinkpadLuvr · Accepted solution]

Problems solved everyone. I'm an idiot, and finally realized that I failed to actually run the executable files for the drivers that I had extracted.

Not only is the audio working, but the green volume bar on the screen is working, and so is the Thinkvantage button.

Message #20 in this thread helped me: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=170585&page=2

And so did this comment on another forum:

"Lenovo System Interface driver
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...cid=MIGR-67228

Forget about auto-driver update utility. Just install manually."



It is amazing to have the Thinkvantage button, hotkeys, and audio working again; things we take for granted until they're not working.

Thanks andy and everyone for all your help.


Message Edited by ThinkpadLuvr on 05-25-2008 03:04 PM

Message Edited by ThinkpadLuvr on 05-25-2008 09:08 PM

[ThinkpadLuvr]

Mods - thank you for cleaning up that mistakenly tagged solution above.

Mods and everyone - thanks for all your feedback and replies in helping me resolve this issue. The R61 with this chipset and the Penryn T8100 is blazing fast with XP now!!!