No sound in bootlegged XP Pro T21

[skygodtj]

A guy from work brought over a T21 so I could swap the LCD assembly with my kids T23, to get the wireless antennas for her wifi card.. guy swapped even, was a good deal.. ok.. the plot thickens..

He bought the T21 off someone on eBay, it came with a 30GB HD, loaded with XP Pro.. after the LCD swap, and being the great guy I am, as his was a clean install, (no IBM support files), I ran the Software Installer to get the rest of the IBM support files, and with it, ran MS Updates.. well, after abt 50 updates/patches, a box opened saying "you may not have a genuine copy of Windows" and click here to get a genuine copy.. etc.. balah balah balah... ok.. when he picked it up today I told him needed to yatah yatah yatah.. get a genuine copy.. etc.. he said would get real copy.. ok..

THE PROBLEM IS (legality aside): After MS updates/patches, the Windows audio stopped working. Nothing from speakers, no System, error or function beeps, no music. But only in Windows. It beeps on shutdown ok, does not single beep on POST, but boots fine. Beeps in DOS (C prompt). I have never run across a fake copy of XP before, so I dont know if a patch killed off the audio, or if it's a MS Fake Copy Feature(WGA) to disable something so the fake is hobbled somehow.. 'jez don kno.. anyone seen that?

[rkawakami]

Assuming that it was playing CDs okay before you got your hands on it, it sounds (pun intended ) like maybe the driver for the sound card got trashed? If the driver is correct, how about checking the Volume control panel to see if maybe the individual sound sources have been muted?

[skygodtj]

Hi Ray,

speaker mutes were the first things I checked.. I guessed the same thing abt the drivers, updates trashed it.. with my bud loading a genuine OS I hope that fixes the problem.

[ambientscape]

A guy from work brought over a T21 so I could swap the LCD assembly with my kids T23, to get the wireless antennas for her wifi card.. guy swapped even, was a good deal.. ok.. the plot thickens..

He bought the T21 off someone on eBay, it came with a 30GB HD, loaded with XP Pro.. after the LCD swap, and being the great guy I am, as his was a clean install, (no IBM support files), I ran the Software Installer to get the rest of the IBM support files, and with it, ran MS Updates.. well, after abt 50 updates/patches, a box opened saying "you may not have a genuine copy of Windows" and click here to get a genuine copy.. etc.. balah balah balah... ok.. when he picked it up today I told him needed to yatah yatah yatah.. get a genuine copy.. etc.. he said would get real copy.. ok..

THE PROBLEM IS (legality aside): After MS updates/patches, the Windows audio stopped working. Nothing from speakers, no System, error or function beeps, no music. But only in Windows. It beeps on shutdown ok, does not single beep on POST, but boots fine. Beeps in DOS (C prompt). I have never run across a fake copy of XP before, so I dont know if a patch killed off the audio, or if it's a MS Fake Copy Feature(WGA) to disable something so the fake is hobbled somehow.. 'jez don kno.. anyone seen that?

Maybe a blown speakers?

[pianowizard]

Have you tried "Roll Back Driver" in Device Manager?

[tfflivemb2]

I know that this sounds silly, but have you manually pressed the Volume up button above the keyboard to make sure that it didn't reset there? Sometimes, it takes more presses than you would think to raise the volume.

Do you have any yellow exclamations in the Device Hardware tab?

[sunkssss]

a couple of weeks ago i wiped my hard drive clean and reinstalled my windows, updated using windows update, and then went proceeded onto using System Update 2.0. At the time i thought System Update from IBM had screwed up my audio because i also couldn't get any sound (except for those beeps) to come out of my laptop. i remember trying everything i could think of with the device drivers etc. eventually i had to wipe the drive again, and reinstall windows. this time, however, i used system update first, and windows update second.

i'd keep looking into maybe a driver issue before concluding something wrong with the hardware. have you tried plugging in headphones to see if you get anything (just to see that the speakers aren't blown)?

[skygodtj]

thanks all for the ideas...

Speaker volume(buttons) all the way up..
Windows volume all the way up, not muted..
didnt roll back the driver..
speakers not blown, they work at DOS level..

friend picked it up, so it's not here anymore, he's going to reformat/reload an OS.

Thanks for the suggestions.