P-7811, XP32, Conexant Audio, and KB958664

I recently installed the new XP patch, and now my audio won't come back up (following Rancid's audio howto). It had been working for the last few months flawlessly. It appears XP now needs "software" with the driver which it can't find and refuses to do the driver install anymore.

I was wondering if anyone else had this issue after installing the patch, and if anyone had come up with a solution.

 

Confirmed, uninstall of the patch in "Add / Remove Programs" brought back audio.

 

Cool, I was about to jump in and lend a hand

 

Might want to add this to the XP guide as something NOT to install.

 

Well, any info/help on audio and the patch would be nice after the doomsday-Microsoft-patch-not-on-tuesday news reports. So right now you have to choose between sound and having a secure system. Not the best choice to be making

 

You sure KB958664 is the correct number? The only thing goole comes up with is this thread (which has already been translated into at least one Asian language) and microsoft search does not find it. I do see that my XP laptop is asking to apply KB958644. Is that the fix you are talking about?

 

Yes, KB958644 not KB958664. Sorry about that.

If a moderator could correct the thread title, that would be great

 

I completely agree with xuare, it really is a decision between having a secure system (i.e. xp or linux) or having sound using vista. I am really sick of taking about 2 hours everyday to back up all my data on my p-7811 just in case vista decides not to run next time I boot my laptop. Does anyone know of any linux distros that carry drivers for the sound card in the gateway p-7811 (I think it's Nvidia)???

 

how the heck did you figure out which patch did it? when I installed xp
it put a bunch in there! nice find. Rancid or anyone, ok now I do want to stop the pop ups...how to I 'manually install' wisvhe5.inf ? Thanks for having mercy on the "IT challenged" lol. [original instructions from rancid: 7.) You will have 3 unknown devices, an extra HD audio device, and a modem device. DISABLE the 3 unknown devices and for the extra HD Audio Device you will want to manually install the wisvhe5.inf file in the XP32 directory from the installer package. This will cause the device to appear as an extra Conexant HD-Audio device but it will not start. After you get the warning message the device could not be started DISABLE IT. This will prevent a popup window appearing after reboot.]

 

Touristo - this is where you select "Update Driver," and instead of having it look for you, you say "no, I know where the driver is," and select "Have Disk." Then you point it to the .inf file.

 

thanks Destruy..did that. BUT NOW THE WHOLE THING just wont work.
can only get sound be donig reinstall. curious thing is, after I uninstalled the bad sec update, it had sound on FIRST reboot, but thats all. I dont think bad update got reinstalled...an uninst log show for it shows up in search now.
more info: the audiostart.bat file shows up in task bar as it should, but it never disappears and audio never starts. the one time that audio did start, the minimized window never disappeared. I dont know if it matters, but if I click on devcon (thinking I might start it?) it flashes a black window for an instant but thats all...dont suppose thats a clue?

 

Rancid or anyone...has anyone found a better audio driver for xp? I just cant get the Rancid method to 'stick'. since some parts are auto-setup, I wonder if anythings getting confused onto C drive when it should be on D, but I really doubt that. kinda suks becuase everything else I want is working, and Im getting a little better 3dmark06 score on xp than on vista (235 pts better no OC).

 

Ubuntu 8.10 CD includes working drivers for sound, wireless (intel 5100), and the internal wired ethernet. While I haven't tested it in the final 8.10 release, the betas could do irreversable (to Ubuntu at least) screen blanking if you changed the resolution before installing and running X windows with the nVidia binary linux driver.

Earlier Ubuntu versions did not have working wireless and the wired ethernet chipset required installing the linux driver from Marvell's web page (which is more difficult than you think without wired or wireless networking)

 

I had it all patched up well beforehand. Then when this patch came out, it was the only patch going in. After the reboot, no sound. I have all the patches install as "reversable" so they can be uninstalled. When I lost sound I got the name of the patch from "Add / Remove Programs". Sure enough, uninstalling it restored sound as I indicated in an earlier post ;-)

x

 

Any progress on this matter?...

Unfortunately I missed fire's update at the front of his XP conversion post, so I just slipsteamed RyanVM's XP2 post update pack (which contains 958644 of course) with nlite and merrily installed XPpro on my 7811.

No way (that I can figure) to remove 958644 without a fresh nlite install, without the update pack. :cry: :cry: And XP Pro is working GREAT with my 7811, w/o sound of course.