Pavilion 4453 Riptide modem/sound card

My Pavilion 4453 (WinME)has a rockwell/conextant modem/sound combo card. If I go into Safe Mode and remove the modem, enumerator, and sound devices, Windows will reinstall these items (on restart) and they will work. If I re-start, however, the speakers have a loud feedback-like sound and then the card will not work. I've flashed the BIOS, d'loaded the latest drivers and done everything but chant while waving a dead chicken over this (POS) pc. No advice or actions have made any difference.

Should I give up and replace the card with separate modem and sound cards?

[quote]Originally posted by MikeBrown:
<strong>My Pavilion 4453 (WinME)has a rockwell/conextant modem/sound combo card. If I go into Safe Mode and remove the modem, enumerator, and sound devices, Windows will reinstall these items (on restart) and they will work. If I re-start, however, the speakers have a loud feedback-like sound and then the card will not work. I've flashed the BIOS, d'loaded the latest drivers and done everything but chant while waving a dead chicken over this (POS) pc. No advice or actions have made any difference.

Should I give up and replace the card with separate modem and sound cards?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Do you have a microphone plugged into it? Is it that kind of sound? What kind of software to you have loaded that might access the sound?

You could also try booting to safe mode and removing the sound then go into add remove prgrams windows setup and remove all your multimedia. You could have a corrupted sound Codec that is giving you issues. Then reboot and reload the multimedia and the drivers.

[quote]Originally posted by Larommi:
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Do you have a microphone plugged into it? Is it that kind of sound? What kind of software to you have loaded that might access the sound?

You could also try booting to safe mode and removing the sound then go into add remove prgrams windows setup and remove all your multimedia. You could have a corrupted sound Codec that is giving you issues. Then reboot and reload the multimedia and the drivers.</strong><hr></blockquote>


I have removed the multimedia in Safe Mode. With the microphone unplugged you get no feedback sound, but the modem/sound card still goes out. The only program that MIGHT use the microphone would be Speakerphone.

HP reccommends removing the Riptide drivers via "Add/Remove", the restoring the drivers with the "Recover" CD. Problem is, the packed the wrong CD for my Pavilion, and wants $25 to send the correct one that I shoulda got originally.

Can you tell me more about Codec?
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