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Windows XP/Laptop hardware detection problem

  • 01-03-2005 9:25pm
    #1
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭


    The machine in question is a Packard Bell Imedia 5280.

    It belongs to a friend who asked me to service the laptop, ie reformat it and set it up again, after getting a bad rash of virii. Anyways, after much misadventure, I managed to install XP Professional and I've run into a unique problem that's pretty much a first for me-Windows didn't detect its hardware right. Just to be sure, I booted into Knoppix as well and had the same problem. Specifically it doesn't detect the graphics card, sound card and 56k modem. Even after I downloaded and installed the drivers from the Packard Bell site, for that specific machine...it didn't work. Both Windows and Knoppix only identified them as "generic" items.

    Its an SIS 650 integrated graphics card, SigmaTel C-Major (STAC97N) sound card and a Smartlink CNR2900 modem.

    Now I considered myself something of a geek, but this has absolutely stumped me. :(


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  • #2
    fatherdougalmag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭fatherdougalmag


    Go into the registry and look down through the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI (usually graphics adapters appear under PCI - your mileage may vary).

    You should be able to determine the PCI vendor and device ID. Just hunt around the web for an INF (& drivers) with matching ID's. You might also want to look at the %WINDIR%\setupapi.log. That might give you a hint as to what's going wrong.


  • #3
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    I got the video working by using an older driver, but unfortunately sound is still a problem. SigmaTel don't provide support themselves and apparently no one but Packard Bell actually use the bloody sound card.


  • #4
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    I've a sigmatel sound card on my new Dell Inspiron 8600c laptop. Try the dell site?


  • #5
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    I hate to dig a post up like this, but I'm still stuck on this. :mad:

    The Dell drivers detected the hardware, but told me they weren't the ones for my card. Eventually I tried the Realtek AC97 drivers-these worked perfectly...but I still have no sound. It seems to be muted somewhere. I checked the controls on the keyboard, but it doesn't seem to be muted there. Any suggestions?


  • #6
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    ^


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  • #7
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    Fenster wrote:
    The machine in question is a Packard Bell Imedia 5280.

    It belongs to a friend who asked me to service the laptop

    that link you gave is for the packard bell desktop, did you mean to link to the easynote F5280 laptop, if so that laptop has a SIS Titan N Motherboard, did you try the drivers off the SIS website?

    http://www.sis.com/download/

    Try the audio drivers for the sis7012.

    Hope this helps.


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