no audio after upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate

[Guest]

I just upgraded from XP Pro to Vista. Sound was working fine until the
patches were installed.

Then the speaker icon in the task area said that 'no audio device
installed'. I checked device manager, and under 'Sound, Video, and Game
controllers' I had 'Sigma Tel High Definition Audio CODEC' with a warning:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)

I rolled back the driver, and my PC restarted. I checked device manager, and
the device was 'working properly'. But the speaker icon in the task area said
unable to start audio device.

Re-installing the driver via Windows Update simply disabled the device again.

I had great sound in Win XP Pro. The silence is driving me nuts!

Any help that anyone can give would be grealy appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Plato]

I just upgraded from XP Pro to Vista. Sound was working fine until the
patches were installed.

All MS OS's are best installed totally fresh, NOT as an upgrade to your
current OS.

 

[Guest]

Plato

Garbage ! If anything it's more like 50-50.

Upgrade, under most circumstances works perfectly well.

I have 2 upgrades, 1. is from Pro to Enterprise and 2. Pro to
Business...and not a BSOD in sight.

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Chris

Any chance of you going back to a 'system restore point' &
checking to see which patch is causing the problem ?
There is a KB article out there, but unfortunately I can't
remember which one it was. Others may have the right
answer.

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[Guest]

Plato

Garbage ! If anything it's more like 50-50.

Upgrade, under most circumstances works perfectly well.

I have 2 upgrades, 1. is from Pro to Enterprise and 2. Pro to
Business...and not a BSOD in sight.

Maybe not a BSOD, but my upgrade from XP Business to Vista Business led to
an incredibly buggy OS. Maybe it was the fact that I have a Lenovo notebook
that came preloaded with lots of utilities, but there were many problems with
device drivers. For instance, I have an internal Bluetooth dongle that I
found really cheap, but the Lenovo drivers just didn't work and I finally
found some on the Intel site that did.

After a couple days of hassles, I backed up my C: drive, formatted it and
did a clean install. (I always partition my hard drives so I can store data
on a separate partition from the OS, making a clean install much easier.)

Doing a clean install, Vista found most of the drivers I needed. The Vista
network and sharing center is much better than the Lenovo's "Thinkvantage
Access Connections," and I also prefer Vista's taskbar volume control.

 

[Guest]

RLMEsq

I appreciate your points and they are valid. However, I was
one of the lucky ones and didn't upgrade until the beginning
of April, when (most) of the device drivers for Vista had been
distributed.
There are still problems with 'Bluetooth', from the posts here,
and some 'all in one printers' (scan) particularly aren't working.
I blame that on Dell & HP for dragging the chain, since they
have had access to Vista for (what?) since November 2006 !
I also appreciate your point when you say that your clean install
found all Vista drivers, et al. Well, my upgrades did exactly
the same. Perhaps I was just fortunate, 2 times.

However, this bantering doesn't help Chris with his 'no sound'
after update from pro to Vista !
Any suggestions for Chris on his problem ??

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[Julian]

All MS OS's are best installed totally fresh, NOT as an upgrade to your
current OS.

All OS's.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for trying to get this back on track.

The other comments are not useful as they do not address the question at
hand. Another forum may be more appropriate for the soap box speeches.

 

[Guest]

Chris

See if there is anything on this page that might help you.

http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/sigmatel-drivers-and-pc-manufacturers/

Best of luck.

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[Guest]

Problem Solved !

I ended up calling Microsoft. A lot of time on the phone, but some great
people.

My problem turned out to be that I needed an updated audio driver for my
Intel motherboard. Once the driver (all of three days old, btw) was
installed, everything worked well.

 

[Guest]

Of note is that the driver came from Intel, NOT microsoft.

Just so ya know.