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No sound in XP after dual boot
Name: najitech Date: January 14, 2008 at 05:48:30 Pacific OS: Vista/XP Pro CPU/Ram: 512 MB Product: Toshiba Satellite
Comment:
I posted something in Networking, but think it's more of an XP issue. After setting up a friend's Toshiba Satellite laptop to dual boot with Vista Home Premium (original OS) and XP Pro, I could boot into either OS. Everything in Vista was fine, but found no sound and no network capabilites on the XP side. When running ipconfig /all, no IP info shows up at all. It looks like this may just be an XP driver issue - since the laptop came with Vista Home Premuim installed, it probably didn't have the sound or network card drivers needed for XP. I'd appreciate any input on this issue.
Name: najitech Date: January 14, 2008 at 06:51:26 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks XPUser. I didn't want to do a duplicate post, but I did reword the post to indicate that I thought this was really an XP issue. Thanks for your input. I already went to Toshiba's website, downloaded XP sound driver, and burned them to a CD. (The laptop is located at our church, and they are still on dial-up!). Looks like I will have to get XP drivers for the network card, too.
Name: XpUser Date: January 14, 2008 at 07:30:24 Pacific
Reply:
OK Good luck in finding compatible drivers. Now that you have mentioned Vista/XP Dual boot, you need to be aware that System Restore points and other recovery features in Windows Vista are affected when you dual-boot with Windows XP. For a workaround, read/bookmark for church the following article.
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