I've just had a seriously non-fun few hours arguing with drivers on the Toshiba Satellite Pro P100 (specifically the PSPAEE-00E006EN variant). Had no real issues installing Windows 7 64 bit, didn't really expect to as Vista 32-bit worked perfectly well. 135 updates installed later, including the graphics driver, everything seemed to be working swimmingly.
Except the sound, which while it pretended to play, it clearly was not.
Apparently I was far from alone in this issue. Many forums complained about lack of Vista x64 / Windows 7 x64 failing to work properly with the sound. I tried installing a variety of sound drivers, none of which seemed to actually work, although strangely occasionally I'd try to install one, it'd fail, but the sound would work until I rebooted. Extremely frustrating.
Eventually, after much hunting down and forum crawling, I found this driver from HP - SP40170 - which did actually work. The automatic install program didn't, but installing the driver manually via device manager - update driver - select from a location on disk, and choosing c:\SWSETUP\SP40170\Venice\V64 allowed me to install a working driver, and get sound.
It's not perfect - the sound stops working on suspending the machine, which I haven't figured a solution for yet aside from reboot - but other than that it seems to be working well so far. I'm a bit surprised (and disappointed) that a proper 64-bit driver wasn't released for Vista/7 by Toshiba, but hey, just the way the cookie crumbles with older hardware I guess.
Hope this saves someone else the hours I've had to spend hunting this down.
It worked. Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeleteGlad it helped you out! :)
ReplyDeleteAny luck on finding solution for problem where sound is muted again after notebook is awaken? Will look into that, if any luck I will share. Until than, used simple workaround by disabling sleep/stand-by options.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I never found one - I'm currently using the laptop back in 32-bit mode at the moment, although I may try 64-bit again soon. One thing I did notice is that on the 32-bit, after the laptop was in sleep mode, the system had a tendency to turn off the system sounds in the mixer - I don't know if that'll help you at all? It's something to do with the audio routing though I think, the high definition audio codec chipsets on these things can be almost identical, but have different software "pins" wired, from memory, or something like that, I had difficulty when configuring it for OS X for the very same reason.
DeleteUnfortunately, all I can do is wish you luck, and if you do find the answer, please do let me know - I spent many hours looking for it!
for Toshiba Satellite P100 áudio Windows 7 64b install 64bit_Win7_Win8_Win81_R275
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chose 32b for Windows 7 32b