Comments on: Sound in Vista cutting off

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By: Walking Along

Walking Along — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:43:20 +0000

Hi again!

I wounder what about sound in Windows 7?

Maybe Linux will help or so on

Did somebody tested?

By: jeff kloepfer

jeff kloepfer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:33:29 +0000

I using a Dell laptop that has the touch key sound control. while i was playing Sins of a Solar Empire, the audio started acting funny so i muted the sound. Now no audio is working. what do i do?

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By: Gaspard

Gaspard — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:53:53 +0000

@steph:

Not sure if you’re in the correct forum.. I can’t find any information if the F500 series uses SoundMax audio drivers…

If it does then this page might help… but only in the off chance that it actually uses the same chip as described in this page…

Please check your device manager and see if it’s listed as “SoundMax” under your audio device.

You said it worked correctly previously for a year or so, please try an older version of the driver.

I searched HP/Compaq:

http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Lookup?h_pagetype=s-001&h_lang=en&h_client=s-s-r2515-1&h_cc=nz&h_query=Compaq+Presario+F500+Notebook+PC+series

used that link to find the model… you need to flip the notebook upside-down and look at the model number on the sticker.

By: steph

steph — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:16:40 +0000

hi. i have a compaq presario F500 that i’ve had for about a year and a half and havent had any problems with it until recently. the sound wont work and i’ve tried just about everything, including various methods above. nothing seems to be working. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks.

By: bert

bert — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:26:36 +0000

i have sound one moment then next nothing it says its working ansd when i test it its okay but if i watch video on internet it dosent work

By: Gaspard Leon

Gaspard Leon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:37:34 +0000

well…

Things that can effect startup time severely:

- Broken device drivers (HDD, Chipset, Video, etc)
- Joining network domains (admin scripts etc)
- Viruses, other software installs etc

Things that would effect time in a lesser extent:

- Hard drive performance (5400rpm vs 7200rpm etc)
- CPU Performance (2ghz vs 3ghz etc)
- RAM Size (1GiB vs 2GiB vs 4GiB)
- Broken networking or device drivers can cause some lag too.
- Restart installs (windows updates etc)

The short answer is Vista is great if everything works, but it’s not as solid as XP SP3 which is stable and mature, and works on every machine from 2001 to 2006 and most new ones too.

Also XP SP3 will wring that last drop of FPS out of most games as well, and if you have less then 2GiB of RAM it’s definitely more efficient.