happy new year dudes in the house.
pls what do i do? the OS of my hp compaq nx 6325 laptop had problems recently and after reformatting and reloading with win xp professional, no sound was found . On attempt to download sound, i got a message promt saying'' HDA audio driver is required and not found'' and after that no way to download the driver. Pls what should i do to this problem
Thanks

do you mean hp or compaq. Well whichever, I guess you can solve the problem by visiting the hp or compaq website. You'll usually find a download section where you can choose the brand of your laptop and then download adequate drivers. The sond to your laptop went mute because when you formated your system, you also wiped off the sound drivers. In case you don't know where to find hp or compaq website, you can google it up.

Go to the Hp Website; support and downloads. ( www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1849083&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=1849082&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1093">http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1849083&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=1849082&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1093 ) check for HDA Modem Installer, download and install then u install the driver for sound. That should work

yea thats right. the audio is linked with the modem. Download the modem driver complete. Re - run the audio setup again.

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do you mean hp or compaq. Well whichever, I guess you can solve the problem by visiting the hp or compaq website. You'll usually find a download section where you can choose the brand of your laptop and then download adequate drivers. The sond to your laptop went mute because when you formated your system, you also wiped off the sound drivers. In case you don't know where to find hp or compaq website, you can google it up.

I don't think it every question you must reply. especially when you dont know what the solution is. First of all, hp has bought over compaq (stale gist) and so some hp systems have model name as compaq nx6110, Let's try to make nairaland better and don't destroy it for us. don't take it personal, but thats the truth.

lol, how nice
i just finished with another hp-compaq laptop and exactly the same error, ehehe, i'm downloading the driver from HP's site, its about 18MB
just type ur full laptop name and model in google, if its hp, the first or second search result will take u directly to hp's page, to the page for that very laptop, then u can download all the drivers for the laptop from there.

I have nearly the same problem with original poster but I bought a new hard drive and can't get audio. I have tried to install audio devices but the problem still persists. Is it possible I may not have an sound card?

I have the same problem, i just installed XP on my vista based HP 6735s.

well the problem isnt really from ur sound card, am guessing u all having this problem installed windows xp

well u'll find the solution in the link below

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-270474.0.html

let me know how it goes