Satellite A300 and WXP 64-bit

Hi,
I have laptop Toshiba Satellite A300-15k, it has CX20561 sound codec, I Found drivers for XP 64 but they are not working in 100%, I have sound but, when I plug in headphones, build in speakers still playing, i cannot mute them and second thing, build in microphone doesn't work, also when I plug in some other microphone to laptop it also doesn't work...
I know that Toshiba doesn't support this OS, but maybe someone know how to fix this, or found better drivers, please help...

> I have these problems because drivers which i used are not exacly for this model
Hm I think thats the reason.
You can Google for your sound chip and try to find a XP 64bit driver but its not sure that all will work because from Toshiba are no 64bit XP drivers available.
Maybe a BIOS update could solve the problem.
Good luck and post your result!

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