I have a Compaq 5bw284.
It had Me on it.
I installed XP.
Everything seemed to go fine. There are no questions marks in the
hardware list.
I have no sound. I have no driver disks for the mobo. What do I need
to do to get sound working?
Terry wrote:
> I have a Compaq 5bw284.
> It had Me on it.
> I installed XP.
> Everything seemed to go fine. There are no questions marks in the
> hardware list.
> I have no sound. I have no driver disks for the mobo. What do I need
> to do to get sound working?
>
Software & Driver downloads - Compaq Presario 5BW284 Desktop PC
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:45:08 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>Terry wrote:
>> I have a Compaq 5bw284.
>> It had Me on it.
>> I installed XP.
>> Everything seemed to go fine. There are no questions marks in the
>> hardware list.
>> I have no sound. I have no driver disks for the mobo. What do I need
>> to do to get sound working?
>>
>
>Software & Driver downloads - Compaq Presario 5BW284 Desktop PC
>
>http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...roduct=93710&#
>
>ADI Audio Driver for Windows 5.12.01.3029 18.58MB
>http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...t=93710&os=228
>
>Try that first, then get back to us.
>
>HTH,
> Paul
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:45:08 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>Terry wrote:
>> I have a Compaq 5bw284.
>> It had Me on it.
>> I installed XP.
>> Everything seemed to go fine. There are no questions marks in the
>> hardware list.
>> I have no sound. I have no driver disks for the mobo. What do I need
>> to do to get sound working?
>>
>
>Software & Driver downloads - Compaq Presario 5BW284 Desktop PC
>
>http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...roduct=93710&#
>
>ADI Audio Driver for Windows 5.12.01.3029 18.58MB
>http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...t=93710&os=228
>
>Try that first, then get back to us.
>
>HTH,
> Paul
That worked
Thanks
BTW I had already been to that page, but it is harder to find
something if you don't know what you are looking for.
Terry wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:45:08 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>
>> Terry wrote:
>>> I have a Compaq 5bw284.
>>> It had Me on it.
>>> I installed XP.
>>> Everything seemed to go fine. There are no questions marks in the
>>> hardware list.
>>> I have no sound. I have no driver disks for the mobo. What do I need
>>> to do to get sound working?
>>>
>> Software & Driver downloads - Compaq Presario 5BW284 Desktop PC
>>
>> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...roduct=93710&#
>>
>> ADI Audio Driver for Windows 5.12.01.3029 18.58MB
>> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...t=93710&os=228
>>
>> Try that first, then get back to us.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Paul
>
> That worked
> Thanks
>
> BTW I had already been to that page, but it is harder to find
> something if you don't know what you are looking for.
I'm just happy when something works :-)
On my computer, I have Soundmax, but it has a couple deficiencies.
I use a separate sound card now, and that works better.
The Soundmax EAX support is not very good (in some game situations,
the sound is muddy), and the Soundmax driver uses reverberation
(echo) added during playback of sounds. I could not disable the echo
effect. I also get the odd click or pop from the speakers, and that
happens maybe every ten minutes or so. With the separate sound
card, I have none of those problems. I've tried about four different
SoundMax drivers, with no real improvement.
Compaq No sound 
Linear Mode
