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Sound stopped working after Vista update
After an update this week my computer would crash to the blue screen of death
every time I turned it on for about two days. On the third day after taking 12 minutes to load on startup it went into installing 11 new updates. When this was completed, the sound no longer worked. I have tried various solutions and finally used the Microsoft help solution of uninstalling the driver in Device Manager. When I tried to reinstall the driver, Vista says there is an I/O error and driver installation failed. I have repeated this result several times now. The Microsoft help just refers you to the sound driver manufacturer, but clearly since it worked until the Vista update it is a Microsoft error, not a sound driver manufacturer error. Anyone know how I can get this fixed? I've got an HP Pavilion with Realtek HD Audio. Like I said, since the Vista update no drivers from the HP or Realtek website will work with Vista now. |
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Sound stopped working after Vista update
Thanks, but I only had one sound device (Realtek HD Audio) installed
originally and now I have zero sound devices and can't reinstall the Realtek drivers. "unclebuckle" wrote: Something similar happened to me. After I applied sp1, it changed my default sound device from my sound card to my usb sound device (skype phone). I used control panel \ sound \ playback tab to select the default playback sound device. Good luck "G Moore" G wrote in message ... After an update this week my computer would crash to the blue screen of death every time I turned it on for about two days. On the third day after taking 12 minutes to load on startup it went into installing 11 new updates. When this was completed, the sound no longer worked. I have tried various solutions and finally used the Microsoft help solution of uninstalling the driver in Device Manager. When I tried to reinstall the driver, Vista says there is an I/O error and driver installation failed. I have repeated this result several times now. The Microsoft help just refers you to the sound driver manufacturer, but clearly since it worked until the Vista update it is a Microsoft error, not a sound driver manufacturer error. Anyone know how I can get this fixed? I've got an HP Pavilion with Realtek HD Audio. Like I said, since the Vista update no drivers from the HP or Realtek website will work with Vista now. |
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Sound stopped working after Vista update
G Moore wrote:
Thanks, but I only had one sound device (Realtek HD Audio) installed originally and now I have zero sound devices and can't reinstall the Realtek drivers. My Dell Inspiron 1721 encountered a similar problem when updating to SP1 on Vista x64. Apparently, SP1 breaks Hi-Def audio drivers in a number of cases, especially on 64-bit builds of Vista. The solution on Dell's tech support site was to obtain updated drivers that were compatible with SP1. Incidentally, this was listed as the #1 topic in Dell's "Vista SP1 post-update problems" FAQ shortly after SP1 was released. Has your system vendor provided any tech support FAQ articles similar to this? Have they made updated drivers available? |
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Sound stopped working after Vista update
Right now Vista shows 'No Audio Output Device'. There is an updated RealTek
driver but it won't install, it returns error 800703E3. So basically I have no sound now and no idea how to fix it. |