Sound card not recognized?

[chrissie10027]

I just bought a friend's 6 month old laptop, but the sound card doesn't seem to be recognized. First, Windows Media gave me the message "Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available, or the hardware is not responding." When I checked the "Device Manager>Sound, video, and game controllers" it listed Audio Codecs, Legacy Audio Drivers, Legacy Video Capture Devices, Media Control Devices, and Video Codecs.

System info:
Toshiba Satellite A105-S2051
version PSAA2U-049018
serial # 36317718Q

Motherboard:
ATI SB450
Rev. 0.4b

chipset:
ATI RS400/133 Host Bridge

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this?

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Perhaps the drivers are bad? Drivers are small programs that lets the hardware communicate with windows.

Go to Toshiba's website and download the latest ones.

 

[kciquetech]

Have the same problem and no, no the drivers, seem like a conflict betwen the HDsound driver and the PCI Bus, tried everything, no success....any clues?