From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 22:28:17 EDT
You need to zap the inf file, or it will keep installing the SAME drivers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monks, Peter" <peter.monks_at_vignette.com>
To: "'Steve C. '" <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: <ThinkPad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:13 PM
Subject: RE: T23 - No sound
> Hi Steve,
>
> > You can still have the speaker icon yet have no sound
> > if a driver is installed but it's the wrong driver.
>
> Now we're getting somewhere! :-)
>
> This is my suspicion as to what's happening, but I don't know enough about
> Thinkpads to know the specifics. I've primarily used Dells and Toshibas
in
> the past (I can hear the booing from here!), so I have the problems with
> those guys pretty much wired.
>
> > Happens pretty often on motherboards that use AC97
> > sound devices, especially if someone has installed
> > Win2000 on the laptop. W2K will install a sound driver
> > and you get the speaker icon but no sound.
>
> Shouldn't deinstalling the sound driver and installing the drivers from
the
> IBM website get around this problem though? I did that as one of the
first
> steps, but still nothing happens. Perhaps I should totally zap all of the
> sound card driver files off the hard drive, just in case Windoze is
somehow
> picking them up?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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