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    HP Sound

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mrmylanman, Aug 23, 2008.

  1. mrmylanman

    mrmylanman Notebook Consultant

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    I have a DV2000 notebook with the 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, nVidia GeForce Go 7200 and all that jazz, and after a stint in Linux I decided to reinstall Windows and make my computer a dual boot.

    This is after I took my laptop apart because of a fan that decided to stop working.

    I quickly reinstalled Ubuntu 8.04 to make sure that everything works correctly - and it does, and decided to put Windows XP SP3 on it (I had SP2 and used nLite to put SP3 in there, I used this disk with another computer and it works). Windows installs just fine, the video works, networking works, all that (after installing the driver's from HP's site), however sound still does not work.

    When I look in the Device Manager I see the following two with the exclaimation mark:

    Other devices
    - PCI Device
    - Unknown device

    Now I heard that you have to install the Microsoft UAA thing first, which I did, however when I restart and try to install the Conexant High Definition Audio driver, it still says "Driver Installation Failed: Could not find the MEDIA device for this driver."

    Any tips on what could possibly be wrong? I installed Ubuntu earlier and sound works just fine on it.
     
    mrmylanman, Aug 23, 2008
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