I have the gateway p-7811fx laptop. I purchased it with Vista 64-Bit but some of my games didnt work properly in Vista so i decided to downgrade to XP 64-Bit. The downgrade process went great, but I was unable to find a working driver for my sound card. One user on a forum was able to take the Vista driver and "convert it" into a XP-32 bit driver. However, this driver does not work for XP-64 bit. I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to either make or find me a compatible driver? I would be willing to reward the person who helps me get my sound working with a month long rapidshare subscription.
I have done some research on the problem, so just linking me with some of the solutions posted on other forums probably isnt going to work. Although, I will try every solution you all offer to be fair (besides from changing OS, or reformating, etc) and if it works then you can also have the account.
A lot of info on the drivers of the p- 7811 fx notebook can be found on the forum below. As well as the posts by "Rancid" the maker of the XP-32 bit driver.
I hope someone here becomes interested in this driver problem and I look forward to working with you all for a solution. Feel free to contact me via PM if you have any questions.
Thank You,
C
PS:
The "Convert It" Method Rancid Used on XP 32-Bit is as follows:
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This is how I got sound to work in Windows XP 32-bit. Takes a little bit of work but should work for anyone if you modify the driver package you are using. If someone wants to provide me with the ini files from their OS drivers I will modify them for you to install.
2.) Reboot the laptop once installation is compelte
3.) Ignore any found new hardware messages if they pop up (click cancel.) Go to my computer and select manage then go to Device Manager, go to System Devices and expand this selection.
4.) Locate the Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio and select it. Then up at the top menu bar you will see an option to disable the device. Go ahead and disable and then re-enable the device. This should cause 3 more unknown devices to pop up.
6.) After you run setup the modified ini file should pick up your audio device and install it. You can verify this by seeing if Conexant HD-Audio SmartAudio 221 is now listed under Sound, video, and game controllers. If it is you are good to continue.
7.) You will have 3 unknown devices, an extra HD audio device, and a modem device. DISABLE the 3 unknown devices and for the extra HD Audio Device you will want to manually install the wisvhe5.inf file in the XP32 directory from the installer package. This will cause the device to appear as an extra Conexant HD-Audio device but it will not start. After you get the warning message the device could not be started DISABLE IT. This will prevent a popup window appearing after reboot.
9.) Install devcon to any directory (I put it in C:\ devcon to make life easy) and then go into the directory you installed it from My Computer. Create a new text document by right clicking, go to new, text document and name it audiostart.bat.
10.) Edit the audiostart.bat file in wordpad or textpad and add this line EXACTLY like this devcon restart PCI\cc_0403
11.) Save the file and exit then right click the audiostart.bat file and go to Send To Desktop Create Shortcut. Once you created the shortcut go to the Windows start menu, all programs, HIGHLIGHT startup and right click and go to open. A window should open and you will place the audiostart.bat shortcut file you created here. DO NOT move the auctual audiostart.bat file or devcon will not work.
12.) Once the bat file is in the startup folder (the shortcut to the bat file, not the actual bat file) right click the shortcut and go to properties and under Run drop down the selection menu and select "Minimized"
13.) Reboot the laptop and upon logging into windows you should see your bat file running in the task bar called audiostart.bat which will take 10-30 seconds depending on what else you have loading on startup. When you see the little window disappear you will know the hardware refresh is complete and you should have audio.
14.) Congrats, you should now have audio without reinstalling a single driver
15.) **Optional** for the HD Modem device if you want this installed simply do a manual driver install and point it to the XP32 directory that you unzipped from my modified driver installer. This will install the correct modem audio driver which should leave you with 3 unknown devices and 1 disabled audio device from the previous step.
Please let me know if you guys have any questions or if I need to explain anything better. For people in 64-bit XP or 32-bit Vista I will need your audio package drivers and the hardware ID of your UAA bus controller to make the same method work.
***** I tried contacting rancid, I was unable to get a response back from him.
I also need those drivers. I tried Rancid's approach also and it didn't work for me either. I think they will only work for SP2, and I have SP3. It's slipstreamed into my install disc. I've tried countless Conexant, Realtek, and SigmaTel drivers (hoping to get lucky), and no luck. Sound worked perfectly on Vista 64-bit, but I just cannot get it on XP SP3 32-bit. There's no way I can go on with no audio, but I'd really prefer to stay on XP, if possible.
Originally posted by eric618: That's mine. I just posted it on Notebook Review a little while ago. Meant to post it here as well. Glad someone was ahead of me! :D
Originally posted by eric618: Did it work okay for you? If so, is your volume control in Windows still working okay? I can only control volume through the Wave slider now. :/
The Wave Slider and The Volume Control Work. I am running XP 64 bit with SP2 though.
