ok... i have a dell inspiron 1521 that i have a sound problem with...?

Question

i had sound on windows vista and downgraded to windows xp pro and now have no sound... i have my proper driver installed and up to date but i am getting a device manager error code 10... says it cant start... i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling it plus i have tried rebooting after the install... still error code 10... any suggestions??? plz help... a guy at a computer repair shop said he couldnt even figure it out...

Answer 1

Hi Joey ,



My name is Harish and I work for the Social Media and Community Team at Dell. Inspiron 1521 and 1520 both use SigmaTel® STAC9205 sound card . You could download Windows XP ( 32 bit ) Driver from the following link.

ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/Browse_For_Drivers/Laptops/Inspiron/Inspiron%201520/Audio/Driver/Windows%20XP/2007-09-03%20-%20R160671.EXE



You could also use the link suggested by Rashi and Select the system model as Inspiron 1520 and download the respective driver.



Hope this was helpful.



Regards,

Dell-Harish K

Answer 2

Easily, Upgrade to Win 8 !! OMG, the guy at computer repair shop is sucked =]] it's easiest problem that i have ever seen =]]

Answer 3

you have to download realtek audio codecs because your running a downgraded



takes a while to download so save the file



http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Answer 4

you should try window 7 professional.