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Hey there,

I bought the Gateway NX850X notebook around november 2005.
Everything worked fine but now I totally formated my harddrive and no wI don’t have any sound anymore.
My new OS is Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2+), Gateway just had Windows XP Home pre-installed when they delivered it.

The soundcard is not defect, I tried out Knoppix (some linux OS that boots from CD) and I had sound there, but there is no possible way to install sound drivers on Win XP.
It always tries to install the CONEXANT AC-LINK AUDIO drivers. I tried to install any AC97 drivers (Realtek AC97) but it didn’t work. The Conexant driver always comes back up again but I don’t have any sound.

The Gateway online support chatted with me for quite a while and also tried to fix the problem with some remote software but nothing worked. They offered me to send a driver CD but I am living in Germany and they won’t send it over here. Does anybody have an idea which drivers to take?

Thanks you
Ben
Nope, in the control panel it says something like “No sound device” (might be different in English, I just translated it from German windows ^^)

Running Sabayon Linux OS straight from the CD on my old HP Notebook. (Annotations test video)