Compaq Presario v6000 laptop repair (failed nVidia chipset)

[momaka]

Re: Compaq Presario v6000 laptop repair (failed nVidia chipset)

Hi Momaka; About the Audio problem with XP SP3 , Your Compaq Presario V6000 originally come with a Vista CD as a system recovery , Something very logical since Nvidia didn't make XP drivers for Nvidia 6150GO , (that with taking into consideration of some third parties or programmers like me , who managed to make compatible and successful drivers for this chipset ) , so it is also logical to assume that your audio chipset isn't also compatible with XP or XP SP3 , While it's totally compatible vista and above ..

Yeah, when I saw the audio work fine in Windows 7, that's exactly what crossed my mind. Perhaps with the laptop being a "Vista-gen" machine, I'm better off installing Windows 7 on it. (I even considered Windows Vista for a few moments, but.... nah. Vista takes a lot of cleaning and tweaking to get it working alright, and TBH, I haven't done that many Vista installs, so I might just pass on that.)

That's being said , and looking at the Schematics brought by Piernov; , your Audio Chipset is Conexant Venice Amon CX-20549-12 .. So It's a Conexant driver that windows Automatic updates can take it easily under Conexant Audio-link .

Thanks for the info.

Yeah, if I remember correctly from the hardware IDs, the audio was indeed some Connexant chip. I'll have a look again when I open the laptop to upgrade the CPU, though.

Been a while since I used Windows update (6 years, maybe? ). I hope it can just pickup the drivers only and not have to go through the entire process of updating everything - knowing Windows update, that would make the CPU stuck at 100% for a long time and could overheat my GPU. So if it does that, then Windows Update can go to hell. There's a reason the first ting I do on any Windows XP and Windows 7 install is disable the Automatic Updates service. Then all of a sudden, the computer becomes responsive again.

This link from Hp state that HP 530 have the XP driver for the same chipset Conexant Venice Amon CX-20549-12 :

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers...ook-pc/3375953

Hope it works my friend

Thanks agian. I'll give it a try when I get back to this laptop after the holidays. I hope it works too. It's not that I don't like Windows 7, but Windows XP just seems so much more snappy on that laptop. And it still looks better, IMO... but I know that is subjective. (For one thing, I still much prefer Windows XP's way of rendering fonts on LCDs and CRTs over Windows 7 and newer. I know in Windows 7 you can adjust ClearType, and I think I even successfully did it on one PC way back to make it look like XP... but all in all, I still prefer XP. Plus, there's no enforced driver signing in XP. Win7 is annoying when it comes to disabling that, especially 64-bit versions.)