Re: Laptop No Sound

Is the MX6025 the same as the MX6124?

They are very close. Mine uses newer Intel chips, but everything else is
pretty much the same.

MX6025 Specs
http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/6000Series/5376sp13.shtml

MX6124 Specs
http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/6000Series/5386sp3.shtml

Lots of people seem to be having this problem with this exact
computer, see http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=204960

(Gateway of course isnt interested in problems they cant use to fix
their computers)

Well if you still have the Gateway Recovery DVD, there are the original
sound drivers on there. That is what I would use to reinstall. The trick
is finding it through the cryptic folder numbers.

I don't know if you still have the Recovery partition or not. But if you
decide to do a complete reinstall, there is a trick to reinstall and not
have the recovery partition. You really don't need it as you have the DVD
anyway. The trick also skips all of the extra software that Gateway places
on the machine. If you want to go this route, I'll give you directions.
By now I have tried pretty much everything: I have two hard drives, on one
is an XP Pro installation. It largely works and I use it more often.
(Microsoft doesnt recognise it as being particularly valid).
On the other just for kicks, I did a restore install from the Gateway CDs
and the proper Product Key!. On this one I am trying to do experimentation
to try to get sound working. Thus far to no real avail but it would be
interesting, if it can be done and i can switch to using that hdd full time.
Someone erased the boot partition on the hard drive so Gateway told me that
sound would never work until I bought new restore CDs from them to restore
the partition.

I didnt believe them as I suspected they were just trying to get me to buy
more CDs from them while being actually unable to identify what was causing
the sound not to work on the computer where, most importantly, various MS
KBs specifically say that 'this windows update is not compatible with
Conexant sound drivers'.

Is all this wrong and is there in fact some way to get sound to work on this
computer please??


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Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2



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