''No Audio Device'' on Intellistation MPro model 6220-20u Win XP

Thanks boatin-4me.

I appreciate your response. It never occured to be that it could have been the BIOS. Alas, Sound WAS disabled and I enabled it-setting it to Auto. I thought that was all that was needed, but, it still did not work (in the same way-no driver, No Audio Device).

So I tried to load the driver again (after the BIOS was enabled) and got an error: "Tool for Driver Update has encountered an error and needs to close". "more info" indicated that the "cause" was an unhandled exception in the alcupd.exe module (which means nothing to me).

So that is where it stands.

Thanks for your help so far. Thanks boatin-4me. I appreciate your response. It never occured to be that it could have been the BIOS. Alas, Sound WAS disabled and I enabled it-setting it to Auto. I thought that was all that was needed, but, it still did not work (in the same way-no driver, No Audio Device). So I tried to load the driver again (after the BIOS was enabled) and got an error: "Tool for Driver Update has encountered an error and needs to close". "more info" indicated that the "cause" was an unhandled exception in the alcupd.exe module (which means nothing to me). So that is where it stands. Thanks for your help so far.

Thanks for your help. At this point I think that I understand why the sound driver cannot load on these Intellistation M Pro machines: they are connected to a domain under the control of Server 2003. It is the GPO's of the server that prevent the correct driver from loading. If I remove the PCs from the domain, I am convinced that the driver would load properly. The correct driver is the Realtek Semiconductor Corp Audio Driver version 5.10.0.5190 (see Readme.txt in the IBMDRIVERS\AUDIO folder).

At this point I will close out this thread.
-Thanks Thanks for your help. At this point I think that I understand why the sound driver cannot load on these Intellistation M Pro machines: they are connected to a domain under the control of Server 2003. It is the GPO's of the server that prevent the correct driver from loading. If I remove the PCs from the domain, I am convinced that the driver would load properly. The correct driver is the Realtek Semiconductor Corp Audio Driver version 5.10.0.5190 (see Readme.txt in the IBMDRIVERS\AUDIO folder). At this point I will close out this thread. -Thanks