I’ve been enjoying my new Lenovo - once in a while the sound acts a bit flaky after repeated hibernates. Then what seemed like all of a sudden - the sound stopped working completely. I didn’t know what happened but it sucked not having sound….
After a lot of searching I found the likely culprit - my modem is switched off in BIOS. I turned it off when I turned on IrDA for my palm.
I should have known to just go to ThinkWiki
Problem with no sound on ThinkPad R60e - ThinkWiki
The ThinkPad BIOS has an option to disable the Modem. If you are tempted to do this (seems like a good idea if you never use the modem) don’t. If the modem is disabled sound does not work. [Applies to Ubuntu 6.06.1 and Edgy-Eft Knot2 on ThinkPad R60e] [sound does work in WinXP with modem disabled]
Live and learn…
January 30th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
What genius decided it was a good idea to link the audio and modem?