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I have Dell Optiplex GX150 with Windows 2000 Professional. It worked fine untill I changed to XP. Then no sound at all. Now I changed back winsows 2000 and still no sound at all. The sound hardware tell me I got sound but to no avail. Please help
Zak Osman
Re: I have Dell Optiplex GX150 with Windows 2000...
Download and install the xp soundcard drivers for the gx150 here- http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=PLX_PNT_P3C_GX150&os=WW1&osl=EN
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Dell doesn't have Windows XP drivers on their site. Apparently these shipped with one about 5 different devices, none of which have drivers for Win XP. I think I would recommend replacing the sound card with a more recent one. You could try using the Windows 2000 drivers, but this is kind of a hinky fix, and it may or may not work. If you want to try this option the driver is here: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19 You can find (on ebay, etc.) sound cards that would work fine in the $10-15 range easily.
You will have to boot in to repair console from XP cd and run it so it can try to repair the Operating system. Put in cd and restart and if it does not ask to boot to cd u have to change boot order in bios to boot to CD rom first. If all this fails you have to reinstall windows. Hope this helps.
by the sounds of it your processor which is the brain of your computers is damaged you can either replace the motherboard of purchase a new computer because 8hrs is a long time for a installation
To reinstall Xp from the CD you need to press F2 and go into the BIOS then select the boot order configuration and make the CD the first boot device and the hard disk the second boot device.
After installing XP, if you wish you can go back into the BIOS and change the boot order to boot from the hard disk first.
Contact Dell technical support to get the CD read the partition on your hard drive to restore to factory settings. It won't be able to work without one since it has to boot from the CD in order to get it to work.
I have experienced this problem as well, it is either the CD is scratch
or the CD-rom lens needs cleaning, however it can read the content of
the CD, I would susgest you try a another CD-rom ,
borrow it from a friend. It works for me.
try going to the bios by pressing f2 or delete key on the keyboard at the dell logo.
if you are able to enter the system setup screen, reset the bios.
to reset the bios, press num lock, caps lock and scroll lock so that all 3 lights on the keyboard are on.
press alt + e and alt + f keys.
press esc twice
then select save changes and exit.
also try booting through the safe mode by hiiting f8 on the dell logo.
you can also try booting through the dell resource cd or win xp cd.
Depending on the operating system, most of the time it is located in the start menu, programs, accessories, then system tools. Restore is a process that takes the computer back to a specific date and time called a checkpoint. Reformat is a process by erasing the entire hard drive and re installing the version of windows you are running.
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