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Posted: **Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:24 pm**

I am very happy with my little 240X thinkpad on WinXP pro SP2.

One minor problem though:

Sound is only activated after depressing Fn + Delete during or after each boot. This is true for both the onboard speaker and headphones.
(with headphones the onboard speaker is off anyway).
When in sound mode, Fn+Delete or Insert increases or decreases volume as it should.
Fn+Backspace gives Mute, and thereafter sound is only restored by depressing Fn+Del.

As far as I can see there is no BIOS item that has a relation to sound.
Needless to say that in the Thinkpad Configuration Audio is Enabled, and in Windows Config. Mute is off.

Am I missing something?

Hans

Posted: **Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:29 am**

It's just a thought,

Have you tried to reboot the computer AFTER you activate the sound at startup and BEFORE entering into the the OS and see if the sound activation stays on?

Posted: **Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:37 am**

Thank you teetee, I thought it was a good suggestion and worth a try, but alas...

Hans

Posted: **Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:45 pm**

Make sure your bios is up to date. One of the bios fixes was:

(Fix) Volume state (level) does not keep the setting after rebooting the system.[/i]

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:18 am**

Thanks Virge, a very good suggestion indeed.
But I have the latest BIOS version (1.03.23) installed..
Hans

Posted: **Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:13 pm**

Not related, but...
what is the configuration of the OS?
How did you installed, did you streamline XP? If you did, can you tell me what you did?
I will be installing XP SP2 on my 240x (PIII 500, 192mb ram) and may want to try out different variations, maybe I could find also a workaround since I am curious if I may have the same sound problem (in Win 98 I do not).

thanks,

franco

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:09 am**

Hi Franco,
My OS is WinXP SP1, config. P3 497 MHz, 192 MB RAM.
I have splitted a 20 GB HD in C:=14GB and D:=6 GB.
Splitting and formatting in DOS in the 240X laptop.
Connect HD to Desktop PC and copy a WinXP i386 file from WinXP CD to D: partition.
HD in 240X again and install OS into c: partition.
You will find detailed instructions somewhere in this forum.
Search for author 'thinkpad adrian'
Hans

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:39 pm**

I ran into this issue upgrading to XP SP3.
1)The XP install will provide a driver.
2)Make sure the Audio is enabled in the Thinkpad Configuration Utility.
You also might have to set the sound scheme to default in control panel>sounds

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