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Mornin',
Its 45° cloudy 'n windy.

Caledon Ken said:

Good day everyone.


Beauty day here.


Glad you're back with us Mike.


Then I saw Bob had an earthquake.


Everybody buckle up, Mother Nature is p!ssed.


Well the clean install of the Dell failed to fix sound issue. It did fix it on one and these Dell are identical, bought in the same order. Maybe I could use one of those new BIOS Borg mentioned, have to check if one is available. I know my wife got one a week ago.

Morning Ken.

Yeah, unfortunately Dell & sound issues go hand in hand. All their drivers for sound are a mess.

I'm not happy about putting a BIOS update in, too much chance for something major to go wrong. I think it was like 10 yrs ago Dell released a BIOS update that bricked some PC's. I know it's a lot safer then it used to be but still makes me nervous applying those.

So how much snow did you get?

COMPUTIAC said:

Mornin',
Its 45° cloudy 'n windy.

Morning Computiac.

Borg 386 said:

Morning OM & Sammy

Wow, you guys sure got hit hard from what I saw you wrote. Worse that it was wet snow. Hope all is getting better & all that melts soon.

Good morning Borg, yes it was the worst storm we've had all year. Lots of downed trees everywhere. But its over now, things will be getting a lot better now. Will take the crews 2 to 4 weeks to clean up all the damaged trees tho.

COMPUTIAC said:

Mornin',
Its 45° cloudy 'n windy.

Good morning Bob, its 38° here with a light rain falling.

OldMike65 said:

Good morning Borg, yes it was the worst storm we've had all year. Lots of downed trees everywhere. But its over now, things will be getting a lot better now. Will take the crews 2 to 4 weeks to clean up all the damaged trees tho.

Yeah I don't doubt that. Well at least you had a Gen to keep the light/heat on

You know Ken it might be worth it to get a sound card with all the mess with the drivers & such.

Hell, I'm beginning to think all Dell customers should get a sound card just to be safe.

BTW, do they even make sound cards anymore? I would imagine they do but that seems like an old concept.

When I fired this up & there was no sound, calling the tech in India they had me d/l the realtek software or something from the driver base at the Dell site. I looked to se if I still have the package but I don't so not sure what it's called, sorry.

Morning Borg. Had enough snow to make grass white. Maybe 1/2 inch. Once it started to warm it was pretty much gone except where it was piled.


This is a laptop so a sound card would be difficult. I'm hoping we can chase with Dell engineering. We've uninstalled and re-installed the sound drivers so many times I lost track.



Morning Mike.

Caledon Ken said:

Morning Borg. Had enough snow to make grass white. Maybe 1/2 inch. Once it started to warm it was pretty much gone except where it was piled.


This is a laptop so a sound card would be difficult. I'm hoping we can chase with Dell engineering. We've uninstalled and re-installed the sound drivers so many times I lost track.



Morning Mike.

Oh, you're dealing with a lappy. Yeah, that's a problem.

Did you try that EQ proggie I posted a couple weeks back? Don't know if that would help it or not.

The thing you're dealing with is that damn sound chip they put in all their mobo's. Wish they would quit doing that. Plus I think Intel has some kind of a sound driver in there as well.

Hope you get it sorted soon. Ridiculous, a basic item like sound being such a big issue for them.

Glad you didn't get too much snow.

My Wife wants breakfast so I'm off.

Take care & have a good safe day all.

No I didn't try that. The driver is actually failing and needs to be loaded with a restart.