Sound / Audio

[Jerry_Lippey]

Good for you, PARuss!

[timmi]

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Jerry_Lippey wrote:

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Tecra-A8 running Windows 7 and sound doens't work

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Try running this Toshiba utility that was used in Windows Vista upgrades.

   Sound Utility to Turn Mute Off After Upgrading to Vista

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Didn't work for my Tecra A9-PTS52E, will now try the updated A8 sound drivers, got nothing to lose...

Edit: Still no sound trying the following:

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PARuss wrote:

For my situation running Windowws 7 32bit I just looked at the Toshiba Tecra-A8 model site and low and behold they have an update for realtek audio drivers.  I installed it and I now have sound working!

Here's the site

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=144744...|PTA83U

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The funny thing is my Tecra A9-PTS52E doesn't appear in the download section of this page, think Toshiba hasn't developed any Win7 drivers for this notebook yet...

[Jerry_Lippey]

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Tecra A9 PTS52E

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Your 64-bit driver should be this one. Right?

   Realtek Sound Driver for Windows 7 - 64 Bit, 6.0.1.5904, 30/10/09

   sound-20091030105519.zip

[PARuss]

As I mentioned in an earlier post that after installing the latest audio driver that I found on the Toshiba website my audio was working.  The next day I had installed Skype and was fiddling around with it trying to get the microphone to work.  Since then I once again have no audio.  I have since reinstalled Win 7 twice but still have no audio even after using the new drivers.

Question for those who might know: I've noticed that in my XP setup(on same machine) that in the device manager under sound it shows a bunch of audio codecs in addition to the Realtek driver.  In my Win 7 setup the device manager only shows the Realtek.  Could the missing codecs be the reason why the audio doesn't work?

Thanks

[dsirk]

Removed and resintalled drivers and then ran the Vista utility (mute) and all is well.

Thank you Mr. Lippey!

You are the salt of the earth.

[Jerry_Lippey]

Happy to hear you got things working! Thank you for stopping by to say Thank You.

[Sri_S_Iyer]

Thanks a lot. This problem has been troubling me for quite a while, and your suggestion worked.. Hurry.

Cheers

[Jerry_Lippey]

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Sri_S_Iyer wrote: ...your suggestion worked..

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Do you mean the mute-off utility?

   Sound Utility to Turn Mute Off After Upgrading to Vista

[chrisvincent]

Jerry

I just used the utility to 'un-mute' the sound on my Portege R500 and it worked great after 2 days of hassle.

I had been running XP (corporate standard 2 years ago due to Novell support requirement) then lost the sound when I used the product recovery disk to recover it to the factory supplied Vista. Tried various drivers and settings, nothing.... Then decided to upgrade to Windows 7 as Vista had decided it needed about >15Gb after loading 90+ updates following the recovery.... Windows 7 works great, with a MUCH smaller footprint, but still no sound.... they I tried the utility and all is well.

Thanks for posting,

Chris

[Jerry_Lippey]

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chrisvincent wrote:

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Happy to learn that, Chris. Thanks for letting us know.