Restored A31p with no sound - driver issues?

[wujstefan]

Hello all!

One of the systems I have always loved and finally grown up to rebuils is an old beloved A31p.
The thing is, I'm struggling to get Audio and Video drivers at their feet. Phillips WDM pops me an error code 31, and Crystal WDM audio codec an error code 10.

W2K preload is running, installed on 64Gb M2 SATA SSD.

Tried a gazilion different drivers, approaches and methods; starting with preloaded software and ending with all kind of website-based knowledge and drivers. I believe you folks have lots of experience with those devices, so would be more than grateful for help

[TPFanatic]

Im sure youve tried the official audio driver https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad- ... tp1gnt.exe

You can also try the driver intended for T42/R50/etc. https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad- ... a241ww.exe

[axur-delmeria]

Isn't it an Analog Devices chip? At least, Thinkwiki says it does.

My go-to approach with this is to boot with another OS, usually Linux. If it works there, then it's a Windows driver issue. If it doesn't, it's probably a hardware problem.

[wujstefan]

Im sure youve tried the official audio driver https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad- ... tp1gnt.exe

You can also try the driver intended for T42/R50/etc. https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad- ... a241ww.exe

Yea tried both :/

Isn't it an Analog Devices chip? At least, Thinkwiki says it does.

My go-to approach with this is to boot with another OS, usually Linux. If it works there, then it's a Windows driver issue. If it doesn't, it's probably a hardware problem.

Well will try to do this, albeit AFAIR it did work on WXP

EDIT: trying to install soundmax drivers for windows NT I do get a "Configuration or hardware problem occured" message though.

[axur-delmeria]

Have you installed any of the service packs for Windows 2000?

[kfzhu1229]

Hello all!

One of the systems I have always loved and finally grown up to rebuils is an old beloved A31p.
The thing is, I'm struggling to get Audio and Video drivers at their feet. Phillips WDM pops me an error code 31, and Crystal WDM audio codec an error code 10.

W2K preload is running, installed on 64Gb M2 SATA SSD.

Tried a gazilion different drivers, approaches and methods; starting with preloaded software and ending with all kind of website-based knowledge and drivers. I believe you folks have lots of experience with those devices, so would be more than grateful for help

You must've used an A30 driver instead of A31. A30 and A31 have completely different sound cards, I learnt that the hard way.
But if you want to make absolute sure it's not something else wrong, see if under BIOS setup if you cluck a bunch of random keys does it beep

[wujstefan]

Hello all!

One of the systems I have always loved and finally grown up to rebuils is an old beloved A31p.
The thing is, I'm struggling to get Audio and Video drivers at their feet. Phillips WDM pops me an error code 31, and Crystal WDM audio codec an error code 10.

W2K preload is running, installed on 64Gb M2 SATA SSD.

Tried a gazilion different drivers, approaches and methods; starting with preloaded software and ending with all kind of website-based knowledge and drivers. I believe you folks have lots of experience with those devices, so would be more than grateful for help

You must've used an A30 driver instead of A31. A30 and A31 have completely different sound cards, I learnt that the hard way.
But if you want to make absolute sure it's not something else wrong, see if under BIOS setup if you cluck a bunch of random keys does it beep

Nah, it beeps in BIOS and in the system; and I'm absolutely sure I have used A31 drivers

Have you installed any of the service packs for Windows 2000?

Well... I didn't, actually! Will check this out.

[ajkula66]

My go-to approach with this is to boot with another OS, usually Linux. If it works there, then it's a Windows driver issue. If it doesn't, it's probably a hardware problem.

This.

Good luck.