Hello all, a friends home laptop (used to be his business laptop but retired) got ransomeware,asked me to fix it. Had to reinstall win7... again. Unfortunately due to the severity of his infection I was not able to even get in the laptop before the install to back up drivers first. I know there are drivers for win 7 because he got win 7 way back when it first came out and I installed it for him back then and his sound has worked fine all this time. I originally(the first time years ago) had to do a fresh win 7 install instead of an upgrade because his hidden partition(restore to default) was corrupted. the install went fine this time except there is now no sound. Plus, This time around lenovo has no audio drivers for win 7 (or even vista) at their site. I Some info on the laptop is:
thinkpad z60m 2311pu cpu 1.9 ghz
I tried to let windows update them but no results.
I cant figure out for sure what the sound cardbrand is, read online that it is either soundmax or realtek.
soundmaxx wont install says the hardware is wrong so I am assuming realtek. downloaded generic realtek but win7 goes right back to its own driver. I wanted to force install but am not sure which realtek.inf or .dll to force it to accept.
Any advice or links to a solution would be greatly appreciated.Thanks so much for reading.
Hanaleia
thinkpad z60m 2311pu cpu 1.9 ghz
I tried to let windows update them but no results.
I cant figure out for sure what the sound cardbrand is, read online that it is either soundmax or realtek.
soundmaxx wont install says the hardware is wrong so I am assuming realtek. downloaded generic realtek but win7 goes right back to its own driver. I wanted to force install but am not sure which realtek.inf or .dll to force it to accept.
Any advice or links to a solution would be greatly appreciated.Thanks so much for reading.
Hanaleia