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Posted by news.rcn.com on September 23, 2007, 11:23 pm
Please log in for more thread options What I have discovered is that the drivers simply don't load: The Gateway
driver file on their site (inputting their own serial number from their own
computer!) is 706kb which doesn't sound right?
I ran aida32 and it told me in the multimedia section that the sound card is
an Intel 82801DB(M) ICH4(-M0 ac97 Audio Controller [b-1], (not QUITE the
same thing as what Gateway reports, Conexant AC Link, though ac doe figure
in the description) whatever that means and when I searched for the drivers
for this specific card, none I could find would load either. (for some
unknown reason they are all called Realtek drivers??)
Is it possible that there exists a sound card without drivers or are they
just proprietary to Gateway, who wont let users have them? They say that
the drivers are located on a partition on the hard drive which seems to have
become corrupted and simply shows unallocated space after a reload of the os
from the Gateway restore disc!
> news.rcn.com wrote:
>>>>
>>> Check sound chipset is not disabled in the BIOS setup?
>>
>>
>> Yes, the behavious is so perverse that I wondered about that but the BIOS
>> is VERY basic and there is virtually nothing in it besides a batttery
>> calibration program which doesnt seem to work
>
> Can you try a linux live CD like ubuntu, boot into a command shell and
> type something like 'lspci' to list devices.
>
> Actually, you might get some sound out of ubuntu or evidence that the
> chipset is accessible - type 'dmesg' to view driver load details.
>
> Then you'd know at least it's not the hardware...
>
> --
> Adrian C
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