stephmayes Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 HiMy laptop is constantly running 24hours a day. It seems for the past couple of weeks and especially over night. Never in the day, it keeps coming up with the windows error message that something has gone wrong and do i want to send a report or not.Having opted for the 'send a report' it came back with a page saying tha there was a problem with my Crystal SF (WDM) Audio Driver.Ive found the audio driver and tried to update it under my computer, propertys, device manager and then found the driver. Right clicked it to update the driver..It comes back saying theres no further updates. Why is my laptop behaving like this ? Anyone help pleaseThanksSteph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Steph, I think you will have to update your drivers from the manufacturers website rather than from within Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephmayes Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Ok will try that however every time i find the right download, even from the IBM website, it takes me into a DOS program..Which Im not familar with ? Does this piece of hardware have a driver ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 You most likely have corrupt driver rather than an out of date one. In this situation, you could try re-installing from the software disk which you should have had with the machine (not the operating system disk). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 What is the make / model of your computer? I see from your post you mention IBM, but what model (A21e, A22e, etc..)Don't use this it's just an example:http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-43260.htmlIf yo go to that site, it has instructions on how to download and install. Does the site you are downloading from have something similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephmayes Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Its an IBM Thinkpad T20..Looked on the IBM site, could'nt find the link ?S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 http://www.driverfiles.net/Notebooks/IBM/T...546,70,19,.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephmayes Posted April 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Thanks Alan..I came to the laptop this morning to find it powered up but no reponse from it. The screen was turned off and even hitting the keys didnt bring it back to life..It was as if it was in hibernation/sleep mode but it wasnt...The power light was on..nothing else. I had to press and hold the power button for about 5-6 seconds to close it down .. THen powered up fine.It seems to throw a wobbly when inactive over a substantial period..ie overnight..Any ideas?Sx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Its an IBM Thinkpad T20..Looked on the IBM site, could'nt find the link ?SThat's because IBM is trying to confuse you. System x, BladeCenter, IntelliStation Pro, and IBM Monitors are IBM products.ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and other PC products are products of Lenovo.http://www.lenovo.com/ is the site you want. Not http://www.ibm.com ..... go figure.Thanks Alan..I came to the laptop this morning to find it powered up but no reponse from it. The screen was turned off and even hitting the keys didnt bring it back to life..It was as if it was in hibernation/sleep mode but it wasnt...The power light was on..nothing else. I had to press and hold the power button for about 5-6 seconds to close it down .. THen powered up fine.It seems to throw a wobbly when inactive over a substantial period..ie overnight..Any ideas?SxTurn off standby mode in the Power Options.Start > Control Panel > Power Optionsturn off monitor and hard disks can be set as you please, but leave standby as never. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephmayes Posted April 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Thanks SCM..Im sure that will work..So far no error messages as original post..So hopefully alans link did the trick..thanku bothS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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