[Question] Toshiba portege 3480 CT NO SOUND CARD dectected

[XP_2600]

Guys i need your help, i got Toshiba portege 3480 CT laptop for my boss, he was in harry cause he need to take it in a buisness trip, anyway i got it for him (used for sure) and i didnt test the sound thing he go in his trip and when he back he tried to play audio in it and he notice that there is no sound, i checked it i noticed that there is no sound card detected at all i ran scan for plug and play and so on nothing happend, i checked the bios too and there is no option for a built in sound card enable or disable at all, so what do you think it could be?, and in case its damaged can i get it replaced ? and can i get a usb sound device or something as a solution ? please help.

[nitroshift]

googling around, it seems that it does have a sound card, but being a second hand buy, it might be faulty. you can use a USB external sound card, of course. or get a pcmcia sound card (bit more expensive though).

[erpdude8]

XP_2600, what version of Windows is installed on the Toshiba Portege 3480CT laptop computer?

The sound card drivers might be bad or not installed correctly.

Go to the following Toshiba support site:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su...kceghdgngdgnj.0

and look for the Sound Drivers for the Portege 3480CT notebook PC. Then download and install the correct sound card drivers.

see if this helps your problem.

-EP