DV9700 no audio?

[artois7]

Picked up a HP DV9700 showing 'no audio device is installed' and overheating.

It doesn't seem to be a driver problem as the first thing I did was restore to factory which didn't sort the audio.

As far as my experience/knowledge goes.. The audio is the first thing to go, then the wifi, then the video on these DV boards?

Anyone had this problem before? Think I'd probably be kicking a dead horse if I put some time into trying to fix it.

[999999999]

Re: DV9700 no audio?

Usually those die via wifi failure then video corruption or complete loss of video without the sound having gone out but that does not mean it couldn't go out first.

Some people are determined to do everything they can to try to fix these and other similar HP units but personally I'm in the kicking a dead horse group, the problems are likely to only get worse but for now you might try a USB sound adapter, they are only a couple dollars US from places like Dealextreme - http://www.dealextreme.com/c/usb-gadgets-316 though shipping from Hong Kong may take about a month.

[artois7]

Re: DV9700 no audio?

I've had a DV2000 or something similar before with the problem of no audio, so I figured it's just the start of the nvidia failiure as the thing is overheating horribly.

Guess it's probably worth at least trying a new driver before stripping it for parts.