Audio won't start on TP 600

**MartinS** · March 10th, 2004, 03:36 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Code 10 means it ran out of addresses that it can use.

Then way around this is to Go into safe mode and uninstall the sound and anything to do with sound then turn off in the bios setup anything you don't use, such as serial ports, irda, etc and then try a reinstall of the sound card.

If that doesn't work, turn off more stuff - even stuff you use until you get the sound going, then add each thing you need back one at a time.

You should also check for any bios/firmware updates for the laptop that you may have missed installing earlier... especially those that deal with power management and/or acpi.

Thanks for that NooNoo - will give it a go and see what happens.
Regards, and thanks again
Martin

**MartinS** · March 11th, 2004, 11:15 AM

Hi All
Had a go at disabling some of the unused systems (parallel, internal modem, games/midi ports) by using 'Thinkpad Configuration', but whilst flicking through the user manual, it states that the maximum RAM for the 600 is 160MB (32MB base + 2 x 64MB DIMM options) - I'm running 192MB (1 x 64MB + 1 x 128MB - where's my base 32MB?) - doh!
Do you think the extra installed memory is something which would cause the problems with finding addresses - would it be worth removing the 64MB and see what happens?
Just a thought....
Martin

**NooNoo** · March 11th, 2004, 03:02 PM

Worth a shot yes, overloaded ram sockets can do strange things. It's always best to attack these problems with a minimum amount of hardware and all known bases covered.

**MartinS** · March 11th, 2004, 05:50 PM

I decided to install the updated drivers I found and it's all working perfectly, even with the extra memory and everyting enabled!
Very strange - but I'm a happy bunny, so while it's working i'm just going to leave it alone!
Thanks all for your help
I'll be back if I decide that the COM1 is an issue, but until then....
Regards
Martin

**jza734** · March 17th, 2004, 10:07 PM

watch out for the modem on that machine w/ xp. if you try and use it and aol 8-9, it'll get trashed every time..

**MartinS** · March 18th, 2004, 04:02 AM

Originally Posted by jza734

watch out for the modem on that machine w/ xp. if you try and use it and aol 8-9, it'll get trashed every time..

Thanks for that - luckily, I have no use for the modem as I've set it up to work with my broadband connection through USB, and you'd never catch me anywher near AOL!