Vista Audio Playback Problem

[memphisdave]

hwheeler....

Thx, for your posts also. Question, tho... were you able to somehow switch to XP from Vista on that same A135 Toshiba laptop? The reason for asking is that we put the l/t in the shop to have the op system changed from Vista to XP. The techs knew from prev experience that drivers weren't showing avlble for XP on this Toshiba l/t. They double chkd, and sure enuff, no drivers avlble, so no way to make XP work for us on this l/t. I called Toshiba support this morning to see if any kind of work arnd was poss. The tech guy said no, that this l/t was designed to work only with Vista. (btw, that is good info I will remember when buying my next cpu from any brand) I hate such limitations, etc., and just fyi to ya'll.


We will give the fixes all of you mentioned a try tonight and see if any improvement or correcting of the problem occurs. Will post the yeas or nays accordingly.

My thanks to all of you. Have lurked the forums for several years. Changed to memphisdave handle back in Aug. Prior to this posted once ref a work arnd for MS when Media Cloq and similar 'track 16' problems started to come into being. Saying that to say thanks for all the time and effort that the regulars and stalwarts put into this forum. It is invaluable, the service that is performed by these individuals.... and I for one am truly grateful!

Will advise asap the results of tonight's experiments.

md

[hwheeler43]

Basically what you have to do is use drivers from a laptop that has similar specs and that came with XP. Toshiba support was wrong. It will work with XP. I did a google search on the subject and did a lot of research before I did the change. I also downloaded some drivers and saved them to a cd before changing as well. The only thing is that you will do is put the support on yourself. I simply took my laptop to my workplace and plugged the network connection into a spare port on the switch. Then I booted from my new oem version of XP and just reformatted the entire c drive. Then followed the screen instructions. It took about 3 hours including over 80 microsoft updates and driver installations. I have no hardware issues at all. It is really a personal choice. I am glad I changed mine. However, you may want to try other options. Good luck.

[memphisdave]

Hey, hwheeler43.

That's cool, man. Love it when someone can outfox the 'proprietaries'.... in a case like this. I admire your workaround success story. Good job!

The l/t in question is still under warranty, hardly 3 months old bought new, so I doubt my partner will go for your fix method. Will prob just try to pick up another one for the karaoke shows and use this one for d/j work, etc.

I will keep your method in mind.... Thx,

md