Audio Driver trouble

Well, that's what I would love to do, but this computer isn't mine.

I almost took a hammer to my old Dell laptop, but figured since I wasn't the one who paid for it, the kindest thing to do would be to leave it forgotten under the couch. :p Its charging center went out on me so the battery is almost completely dead and won't recharge, and it's been that way for months.





Still, I hope to get a laptop upgrade fairly soon, and I've been taking a peek at a Toshiba Satellite L505.....
 
I have a Dell and had to rebuild from scratch a couple years back (hard drive died). I seem to vaguely remember when I got all the drivers from Dell that they had to be installed in a particular order or they wouldn't work right. Also seem to remember that this wasn't immediately apparent when I first downloaded them. You're not going to want to hear this, but I'm not so sure I didn't go back and start again from scratch.:(
 
Hehe. I'm willing to let this thread die at this point. If it were my decision, I'd chuck this POS out a tenth-story window after setting it on fire. Dell is just too much trouble to be worth it.


Not that any other desktop brand I've experienced was any better.....(Well, okay, as far as desktops go, I've only experienced NEC, Dell, and HP. And the NEC was the best of the three, and that was bought in 1996!)
 
I agree when talking about OEM computers... Its why I assemble my own.

I have a standard response with OEM garbage... I make a good faith attempt to find and install the original drivers, if no go; I give drivers downloaded from Microsoft a chance, then I install Aida and/or HWinfo to find out what the machine wants for drivers and give drivers from the audio chipset manufacturer a try... If all else fails I jam a cheap audio card into the machine, if its a desktop, and use that and the drivers it came with.

Enjoy!
 
On a second note-does anyone know where I can get the Creative SB Live driver without having to go through Driver Detective or anything along those lines?



EDIT: Found and fixed the problem. Saw from Device Manager that the Multimedia Audio Controller driver was not installed and reinstalled it from that point. I had tried this before, but this time it actually worked out correctly. :D
 
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Excellent news, Karn. :):)


I can only hope that you have something worth listening to. :)
 
Oh I will, Ursa, I will. :)


Makes me feel a bit better about myself because I really don't consider myself high tech at all.

.....

Okay, I admit it. The only computer code I've ever written was simple HTML. :p And that was only step-by-step class instruction.
 
Karn Maeshalanadae said:
Through the registry. Great.


You do realize that I'm not nearly tech-savvy enough to even touch the registry, right? :(
Click to expand...

Registry is a piece of cake. You enter soundMax in the search box and hit Search. Then when an entry pops up you hit Delete. Then hit Control + F to search again and repeat till done. Before you proceed go into Tools/Backup to create a back up of your current registry just in case.
 
I've fixed it anyway, thank you. :)


I probably unwittingly solved part of the problem when I managed to find a Creative SB Live! 24-bit audio driver from CNET and then I went through Device Manager one last time and reinstalled Multimedia Audio Control driver, and poof! Sound again. :D


Thanks for all the advice peeps. :)
 
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