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Question

i recently installed windows xp and now my sound drive and hp printer wont work why is this? and how can it be fixed?

Answer 1

update your drivers
from your computers manfacturere
and hp.com for the printer

Answer 2

A good question. Can you be more specific about what they're doing or not doing?

What were you doing before your issues arose. Has anything changed? Recent installation of programs, extensions, hardware, etc?

Was it ever working properly? If so when? Did anything change between when it WAS working and when (now) it isn't?

Did you have another OS installed BEFORE XP? If so, which OS? If you "upgraded" windows to XP, the drivers that were carried over to XP may not have been written for XP. You may need to download new drivers specifically written for XP from the manufacturer's website, uninstall the current drivers, unplug the hardware, reinstall the NEW drivers, then plug the hardware back in and allow windows to re-find it. This usually works, assuming drivers are available for the specific hardware... You'd have to check with the original manufacturer as to what drivers are avaialble or what specific drivers to look for (if your original manufacturer: HP, compaq, e-machines or whatever doesn't have their own drivers for it; maybe the original equipment manufacturer does: like soundblaster, turtlebeach, inland, etc.).

You MIGHT be able to simply go into the Control Panels, into Sytem, into Hardware tab, into the Device manager, and tell it to "uninstall" the hardware, then tell it to refresh (it's on one of the menus in the window, I think). It'll search for changes to hardware and/or new hardware. Windows may find a newer better driver in its own archive. Unless this was a fresh install from scratch. In which case you'd need to find out who made the hardware that's not working under XP and see if they have a driver that will work.

If not, sometimes you can find similar drivers on www.driver-guide.com that DO work, but it take searching and fairly specific info about the card or device, like model number, spcific chipsets used on the board, etc. That can be a pain for older hardware unless it's really generic and used everywhere. Even for us tech types. Moreso for the uninitiated.

Answer 3

You need to install the driver for the sound card and the hp printer.

Answer 4

This is the link from MS to support SP2, And it has several links and also offers tech support "live" to help the transition. The Second Link, when you go there, it has several links and at the bottom of the page it even shows you how to remove SP2 if you are wanting that, and like the previous poster said, update your drivers from the manufacture of the problem devices, they all offer updates to the SP2 issue. Good Luck..

Answer 5

You may need to reload the drivers for them. You should have received the driver discs for each... sound card driver probably came with your system, printer driver with the printer.

Answer 6

Download the latest driver off the internet from the maker of the hardwares website. Most of the drivers are free, so look hard. www.hp.com may work. Should be a support or drivers column somewhere.

Answer 7

If you can't get the drivers please downgrade back to windows 2000 or 98. Hacked versions of windows xp will cause issues. You are better off buying one from newegg.com

Answer 8

windows xp settings, sound
make sure your speaker conncetion is in the speaker port
on your sound card ..if you have a SPEAKER box with power set it to on or if your spearks have a power & volume on set too on and turn up the volume on then click on start / control panel
sound speech,and audio devices, icon
click on change the speaker settings,tab
a sound and audio devices properties box will pop up
volume ,tab
device volume bar , set too high
untick, mute

ckick on advanced,tab
a volume control box will pop up
untick any box that has tick in the mute
click on the volume control box red X too close the
volume control box

speaker settings
click on speaker volume ,tab
left, set the volume level too high
right,set the volume level too high
clikc ok


click on advanced, tab
speakers,tab
speaker setup, set the tab,too desktop stereo speakers

click on perfomance tab,
hardware acceleration, bar,set too, full
sample rate conversion quality bar, set too , best
click ok

now on the click on audio tab,

sound playback, default device , set tab for your sound card ,
sound recording ,default device, set tab for your sound card

now click on voice tab
voice playback,default device,set tab for your sound card
voice,recording,default device,set tab for your sound card
click on apply & ok

now in the control panel click on the sound and audio devices,icon
tick the box , place volume icon in the taskbar
click apply & ok
close off the control panel

now click on the
volume icon in the taskbar
volume control box will pop up
on the top click on options
then on properties
at the top in mixer device box
click on the tab, set the device for your sound card

1:tick, volume control
2:tick, wave
3:tick, sw synth
4:tick, front
5:tick, subwoofer
6:tick, center
7:tick, rear
8:tick, cd player
9:tick, line in
10:tick, microphone
11:tick, pc speakers
click on ok

now on the vloume control box
make sure no box has a tick in mute box

1:volume, control, move the bar too the top
2:wave, move the bar too the top
3:sw synth, move the bar too the top
4:front, move the bar too the top
5:subwoofer, move the bar too the top
6:center, move the bar too the top
7:rear, move the bar too the top
8:cd player, move the bar too the top
9:line in, move the bar too the top
10:microphone, move the bar 2 steps up
11:pc spearkers, move the bar too the top


if you only have 2 speakers and not a set of 12 speakers l
on the volume control box click on options properties


in show the follwing volume controls box list
you can untick

1:front
2:subwoofwooer
3:center
4:rear
then click on okfor windows xp settings, microphone settings
click on start /control panel
sound speech,and audio deices, icon
sound effect manager ,icon
click on speaker configuration ,tab
place a dot in
2 channel mode for stereo speaker output
click on ok close off control panel
restart the computer
then do a sound test and microphone test

has for the hp printer uninstall the printer drivers and reinstall them then go to you're printer settngs and set your printer

Answer 9

try updating your drivers.