No sound on my Toshiba Satellite , I've tried many drivers

Hello guys,

I own a Toshiba Satellite L100-121 notebook and I have recently upgraded to Microsoft Windows Vista. My notebook has an onboard sound card (realtek ac97 I believe) and I have downloaded so far almost 12 versions of sound drivers designed to work on Vista without success. I went to realtek's website, none of their drivers seem to work. I went on Toshiba's website, same issues.

I need your help. It is terrible without any sound.

Regards

HI

Sorry to tell you but im having the same problem, however im running windows xp media. Windows did an automatic update and i have no sound on video only. It does'nt matter what programm i use (divx, wmp, ect.) it just does'nt work.

Regards

Jeff

Hi all,

Just had this issue and spent a lot of wasted time on it. Here's my story if it helps.

It started with an automatic update that generated a system error see KB 935448. Applied fix ok but 2 days later sound died.

Updated sound card with latest realtek drivers, no effect. Noticed a WMM driver under sounds in device manager, flagged as error, and removed it. Now all is ok.

Hope this helps.

Don

so far anyone found any answer yet

anyone here got any clue why isnt it working

me also puzzled...

i installed vista and now i lost my sound...

The following is a temporary solution that I was able to find online that worked for me.

"This is responding to an old post, but this is for others who encountered the

same problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite XP A75 notebook that had the exact same symptoms. The volume control was greyed out, but the OS thought the audio device was working properly. This happened after I did a virus scan and cleaned up some malware. It seems that the RealTek driver installer program alcupd.exe was

infected and refused to work correctly or be overwritten by reinstalling

the device drivers. The installer would always crash 80% thru.

My solution was to remove file alcupd.exe (or rename it) then reinstall the drivers.

My sound works fine now. Hope this saves someone grief. Good luck."

thank you very much..

after going through some toshiba forum threads i manage to find this.

i will be trying out the newly sound driver for vista hope it works...

http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/vista_drivers.jsp macId=&mode=allMachines&userOS=&action=search&selCategory=2&selFamily=2&selSeries=178&selProduct=647&selOS=26&selType=42&country=all&language=13&search=

hey people this is the solution

http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/vista_drivers.jsp macId=&mode=allMachines&userOS=&action=search&selCategory=2&selFamily=2&selSeries=178&selProduct=647&selOS=26&selType=42&country=all&language=13&search=

Hello

I have almost the same problem on my HP Paivillion laptop (dv2065ea).

I hear sounds but the problem is that its almost 40% of the sound volume I could hear when I had XP. All the drivers ar for Vista computers so it should work apparently it doesn't!

Anyone can tell me what the problem is

Thanks

I have a toshiba notebook a80 and i am also facing the same problem with my audio realtek a97sound. why dont the mircosoft or realtek people do something about it.

I have an ACER with XP, ALCUPD is not only the driver, but also a threat.

look this

http://spywarefiles.prevx.com/RRFGHF15869/ALCUPD.EXE.html

Hi, guys.

Million thanks for your post. it was very helpful. I've been searching for this driver for a long time. I upgraded my toshib satellite to windows vista. I manage to get VGA work but not sound. Now I've got the sound driver. I'll come back to tell you guy again if the sound works.

Once again. Thanks.