T20 - no sound

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Orevin · #1 Post by **Orevin** » Fri May 19, 2006 7:55 pm

Ok, here I have hard nut to crack.
I installed WinXP on this T20 and it has no sound. The drivers are installed and correct. The speaker symbol shows up in the taskbar and I can adjust the volume, but still no music.
Out of curiosity I did boot from a Linux live CD (Knoppix) and what should I say, the sound worked!
Does anyone have an idea why I can't get a tone in Windows?

Thanks,
-Orevin-

Website · #2 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:28 pm

Just curious, and I know that you work on on Thinkpads daily, but have you tried continually pressing the keyboard volume controls?

Orevin · #3 Post by **Orevin** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:43 pm

Thanks for the reminder, but that was the first thing to did. And as I said, I can hear music under Linux...
I removed and reinstalled the drivers. There are now drivers for XP available from IBM, as they come with the OS. I downoaded the software for W2k, but the same thing. A new instalation of WinXP didn't help either...

JJH · #4 Post by **JJH** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:15 am

Hello has anyone found a solution to this problem? I have updated from 98SE to XP on a T20 and now have no sound. Device manger shows no problems with sound drivers. I have tried ME, 2000 drivers but still no sound.

#5 Post by **rkawakami** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:29 am

Welcome to thinkpads.com!

Sanity check:

- Double click the speaker icon in the system tray and make sure that all of the source sliders are mid-level and not muted; same for the Master Volume
- Press the keyboard's volume up button a couple of times
- Verify that you can play a music CD and hear the sound from YouTube clips or other streaming audio

If that doesn't help, then verify that the hardware is still good by either using a different OS or running the PC Doctor diagnostic, downloadable from here in a three diskette format:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-4YZM3F

or here in a CD .ISO format:

http://www.kawakami-ca.com/ibm_t2x/ibm_t22_pcdiag.iso

JJH · #6 Post by **JJH** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:47 am

Thanks for your reply. I ran the diagnostics and it passed everything. I used to scan hardware and it states sound card is installed but not configured. None of the sound controls are muted. The volume keys don't seem to do anything.

#7 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:53 am

Did you also update/install all of the T20 drivers/utils/etc. from IBM/Lenovo?

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