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

    Originally posted by jiroy View Post
    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.)

    Originally posted by jiroy View Post
    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.

    Originally posted by jiroy View Post
    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.)
    Last edited by momaka; 12-20-2017, 03:24 PM.

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