ThinkPad SL500 Model 27463YU
We continue to have a driver issue related to an Op Sys upgrade Lenovo offered for the Laptop (from Vista to Windows 7 Home Premium - 32-bit). We purchased the upgrade eight months after purchasing the laptop.
Since installing the upgrade, the machine has slowly gone down hill. While this may sound contradictory, the laptop does work but the driver for the sound card is non-existent, or has 'disappeared' entirely.
At first, the laptop performed well, everything, including the sound card worked well. But after several Windows 7 updates, the Conexant sound card driver 'disappeared' and the sound card became only marginally functional. Everything else about the laptop is fine. However, the sound card is so unstable, that the integrated microphone no longer works making the laptop unsuitable for Skype or Windows LIVE chats.
Attempting to use the upgrade disks provided by Lenovo, there is a file on the drivers disk that attempts to access the 'Net, pointing to a Lenovo server that should contain the compatible driver. However, the file (name unknown) is no longer resident on the server and as a result, the update fails.
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