Hi,
I'm currently using a HP Spectre XT 2001tu. Everything was working fine until I had to reinstall the Windows 7 OS due to memory dump issues. And I deleted the recovery partition because of my sheer ignorance. After the installation, everything is working fine, except for the audio.
I have downloaded the latest drivers available for my ultrabook, but the audio drivers just won't get the sound on.
Here's what all I have done -- I restarted my laptop after every step:
1) Roll back BIOS to default, but nothing happened. Then I updated to the latest BIOS, nothing happened.
2) Reinstalled the IDT drivers over 20 times, nothing happened. Downloaded Win7 and Win8 drivers just to be sure. But none of the drivers are working. Yes, I searched for my laptop specefic drivers on the HP database.
3) Went to device manager. There's a yellow notification besides the "High Definition Audio Device". Uninstalled the driver and scanned for hardware changes. Windows began installing its own drivers, but Windows couldn't complete the installation
4) Opened the sound controller from the device manager, it says "This device cannot start. (Code 10)"
5) Used HP Support Assistant to search for driver updates. It updated my system, but audio still not working.
5) Reinstalled Windows 7 from a different disk. Everything except for Audio worked.
6) I constantly receive "No audio device is installed" on my taskbar, and there aren't any hidden playback or recording devices. Window troubleshooter couldn't solve the problem either.
-----> Then I found a WIERD THING.
I went intomy laptop specefic drivers which I downloaded from the HP servers.
Their supported devices are:
FUNC_01&VEN_111D&DEV_76E5
FUNC_01&VEN_111D&DEV_76E0
Then I went to my device manager, and opened my audio device hardware ID
. It was as follows:
FUNC_01&VEN_8086&DEV_2806&SUBSYS_80860101
The drivers that HP is providing for Spectre XT are not supported by Spectre XT.
I'd like to know what's going on?