Audio Device Missing - Help

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genenamg

I recently installed Win XP Professional on my HP-Compaq d330 uT.
Everything was working well before I installed XP Professional. I now
have a problem - there is no speaker icon on the system tray and from
the control panel/sound and audio devices, it says audio device
missing. Does anyone know what the problem is? From where can I
download a driver if I need one?

Thanks,
GN
 
Go to the HPaq web site, enter the model of the system, and see if there are XP
audio drivers available for download. If so, download and install. If not,
open up the chassis and look for an audio chip, likely made by ADI, the market
leader in on-board audion chips. Write down the markings on the chip. The chip
model will be something like ADI1885, i.e. the letters ADI followed by a
four-digit identifier. Go to the ADI web site and download the so-called
reference drivers available from most every chip manufacturer. The reference
drivers are rarely different than the drivers shipped and installed on a
name-brand system.

If you received any driver CDs with the system, they are another source of audio
drivers.

The root issue here is that the system and audio chip were designed after XP Pro
shipped, so there are no drivers for the chip on the XP Pro CD.

Finally, look at the device drivers in Control Panel and make sure that the
motherboard chipset drivers are installed and operational... Ben Myers
 
open device manager and see for any detected audio device right click and
install device and allow the wizard to look on internet for drivers

also make sure that the windows audio service is not disbled which by
default is enabled in windows xp


Harjeet
 
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