Toshiba Conexant HD audio driver for XP

kwin73 · Feb 26, 2007, 07:00 PM

Here is my issue:

I just bought a new Toshiba Laptop – model: P105-S6197 – and I want to create a dual boot OS with Vista (Shipped with this OS) and XP Pro. Well, Toshiba does not make drivers for XP if the system was shipped with Vista. Vista will not run all of the applications a need and I really need XP loaded.

I loaded a fresh copy of XP pro and was able to locate all of the drivers I needed through Intel – chipset, graphics, NIC, and WLAN. The only driver I have left to find is the Conexant HD audio driver - Conexant "Venice" 5045 HD Audio.

Things I have tried:
- Checked Toshiba’s web-site for the audio driver of the P105-S6197 system – no luck
- Downloaded every audio driver for all of the P105 series laptops – no luck
- Tried to download the driver from Conexant’s web-site – they only have modem drivers
- Used the Vista Driver – This works but no sound is played – device mgr show no more yellow ! sign and the system thinks its happy. In the control panel under sound and audio devices it says: no audio device. I also get an error in the event viewer: The XAudioService service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.
- Tried using the HP audio driver in this forum: http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?pid=8701
- Called Toshiba’s tech support who told me I should have bought an XP system.

Please help me find this driver! If you need me to get you any info from my system I can do that for you.

Thanks for you help!