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i got this great little machine for my kids to do home work etc, it was on win 98 se, and worked well, i upgraded the os to win xp home and now the sound doesnt work, tried all sorts, updateD the bios, installED sound drivers, nothing works, i know it worked when it was on win 98. any help would be appreciated,
the specs, are, 10gb hdd, pent 3 450 mhz, (will the cpu upgrade ?) 192 mb ram, win xp home servis pack 3 (no sound), bios version ITET55WW DATE 30/11/99.
any help would be appreciated

Welcome to the forum!

Have you tried the gizmo that adjusts volumes? The mixer! That's it. Anyway, open that up and ensure Wave and Master are turned up.

Then also turn up the hardware volume by pressing Fn+PgUp (or whatever key has the volume up icon) like 15 times.

hi
tried all that, nothing works, is really annoying, i know its a soft ware problem. its just tracking it down some one on this site must have come up against the same problem

I've had XP on three 600X's and never had this problem, but I never did an upgrade install. All were clean installs.

XP comes with the driver for this chip, so that shouldn't be an issue (but please speak up if you're using a different driver).

There's a "Windows XP installation supplement files" download from Lenovo that notes this fix:

(New) Support INTEL SpeedStep Processor Issue with 82440MX chipset and Soft audio/soft modem

so you might want to try that and follow all the instructions on this page:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-40062

For you CPU question, the short answer is yes--with some quirks. Take a look here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

Personally I would be more inclined to use Windows 2000 on my 600X (if I was sticking with Windows.) Mine came pre-installed with a Win2k installation and everything was working great.

Also XP can usually use Win2k drivers when XP drivers aren't available.