While you’re at it, ask him why he sold you a computer with a practically defunct operating system.
As for your sound problems. You need to start from the basics and you may not need to open the computer at all. First, don’t rely on the headphone jack at the front since it’s most likely not plugged in especially if it is on your CD/DVD burner. For whatever reason, people tend to omit this cable when building a computer system.
Where are the audio jacks you see. Are they on one of the card slots or are they on the motherboard cluster with your keyboard/mouse/USB serial/parallel ports,etc.
Next…check your BIOS settings.
On boot, watch for a message that will tell you how to get to the BIOS setup. i.e. Press ESC, DEL or F2, etc…
If you have on-board sound there will be an enable/disable toggle in the Device Configuration Menu.
If you have a sound card, disable the on-board sound then check your PCI slot settings to make sure they are enabled.
Save and reboot.
For onboard sound:
Make note of the motherboard model # on boot up, it will appear immediately. Hit the pause key to give you time to write it down.
Go to the manufacturer’s website (or Google search) and download the latest setup utility for your motherboard for the OS you are using. i.e. Windows XP This is a package that should contain all the drivers for every component on you motherboard. Run this utility and it will set up your computer with all the drivers that Windows requires for your system.
Let me know if you have problems and I’ll try to help.
Because that’s what Bosda bought. You get what you pay for and all that.
I have recently bought a Dell D640 laptop which came with XP and I am still using XP in all of my computers. When I am forced to then I will switch but not before because XP works fine for my needs and I do not want to invest money and, specially, effort, just to have the latest.
Because people who don’t know better will buy obscenely obsolete systems at inflated prices. The “builder” probably just picked the thing up for $50 from a craigslist seller and reinstalled the OS so it looked new to the OP.
Best case scenario, but I doubt it. I’d love to see specs and price.
I agree with you on not running out and upgrading to the latest release immediately, but mark this date down.
April 8, 2014
After which all support for windows XP, (even the limited support available now) will cease.
There will be no further upgrades, patches, critical security updates, virus libraries, or even software developed for the Windows XP platform. While it’s possible to keep an independent computer running indefinitely, accessing the internet would be a huge security risk and fairly soon would limit websites you could visit due to incompatability issues and/or missing browser, flash, java, etc… updates.
As you may have noticed you cannot upgrade to IE 9 which has limited how you view some websites already.
