Oh my golly its been a while since I last wrote anything on this.. its not to say I haven't been busy fixing/bodging stuff its just I haven't had chance to write about it!
Well, this is a little update, only a small job but one that had been royally p*ssing me off. I recently installed Windows 7 on my HP Media Centre. It'd been happily running XP however, after getting a laptop a laptop with 7 on it, I realised how good this operating system was. Anyhoo, install it.. and everythings good.. except for the sound!!
I tried a number of different things, downloading the
XP audio driver from HP and installing it using compatibility mode (right click on the .exe file, click properties then head to the compatibility tab), no dice, then went to
Realtek for the most recent driver from them, installed it.. no dice!
So after a little bit of head scratching/crying, I decided to check out the system settings (bios) and have a look at the onboard audio settings (before this I uninstalled the audio devices through device manager) I knew they were set to AUTO but figured I'd have a little play with that.. changed it to ENABLED logged into Windows 7 then watched as the audio devices reinstalled themselves.. hey presto.. sound!
I've noticed quite a few PC's upgrading (fresh install of 7) have not had the audio drivers install like graphics etc. My Dell GX280 had no sound until I'd messed around with it for a while and neither did my Toshiba TC1100 which required me to download the most recent but one XP audio driver and install that?!?
I don't know why its being so awkward but it was.. and yet its all working now like nothing ever happened.
Next on my to do list.. cut down a tree, rebuild rear suspension on BMW 5 Series, get my T25 aircooled started.. change wheel bearings on my Jeep Cherokee XJ.. put in a new kitchen, sort out leak in flat roof....
I intend up update this blog with all of those adventures..
Oh and landscape front and back gardens..
