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    mx7515 broken sound card?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by ppbigpp, Dec 22, 2005.

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    Hi,

    I have a gateway mx7515 laptop with a built-in conexant sound card. My machine dual boots ubuntu and winxp. Everything work fine until awhile ago.

    What happened was that I was playing a game of Homeworld2. Then all of a sudden, the game crashed. This is not the first time it crashed on me, so I didn't think much of it. There was still music from the game, and I can move the mouse around. Other than that, there is not much I could do. So I turned off the computer and rebooted it.

    Now here comes the interesting part. After rebooting the computer, the sound device is gone. First thought that comes to mind is Windows screwed up again and fudged the sound card driver. Before I do anything, I boot into ubuntu and see if it is really a Windows issue.

    To my surprise, Ubuntu also reports no sound card. /dev/sound is gone. None of the app can detect a sound device. Sure enough, lspci/lshw shows nothing.

    Anybody experienced this before? Is it time to send my laptop in for repair?
     
    ppbigpp, Dec 22, 2005
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