Advent 7079 Laptop??

I have recently aquired an Advent 7079 laptop. I am having some problems with it.

1. Whenever i try and mute the sound on the laptop, nothing happens sound still comes out throguht the speekers.
2. Whenever i use hedphones with it sound still comes out the speekers and not the head phones.

i seem to be having some sound issues , the laptop has a Realtek AC'97 Audio card.

the laptop also has Intel ProSet Wireless but in. When I start the laptop i have to press the wireless hard button to enable wireless. Does anyone know how i can get it to utomtically enable. I have checked things like the bios.....

Any help with the wireless or sound issues are greatly appreicated.

By the way, its a media centre laptop so i dont know if this has any effect on the sound issues.

Which driver are you using for the soundcard?

I have Realtek AC'97 surround sound with a nvidia nforce 4 on XP x64.

The nvidia drivers were stable but they didn't support surround sound. The Realtek drivers worked but it takes a while for their stable release to actually be stable. Once it stopped crashing I stopped updating the sound driver.

the driver i am using is the default one that comes with the laptop.

And the version / manufacturer is....................

thanks for all the help and offers for help but I have finally figured out how to fix the error.

I uninstalled the Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibiliy Driver. Some sites say do windows updates but it doesnt help!!!


I just though i would leave this fix for other people to save them the hassle of crawling the internet if they have the same issue