Lost audio devices when upgrading to Ultimate

My new laptop came with Vista Business. This weekend I upgraded to Vista
Ulimate and when I finished my audio devices had disappeared. I'm
up-to-date according to Windows Update.

My volume tray icon has a red circle with a white "x" showing it is
disabled, hovering over the tray icon gives the message, "No Audio Output
Device is installed." Everything was working fine with Vista Business.

Any idea what happened, and how do I get my sound back?

Terry

Terry Carnes wrote:
> My new laptop came with Vista Business. This weekend I upgraded to Vista
> Ulimate and when I finished my audio devices had disappeared. I'm
> up-to-date according to Windows Update.
>
> My volume tray icon has a red circle with a white "x" showing it is
> disabled, hovering over the tray icon gives the message, "No Audio
> Output Device is installed." Everything was working fine with Vista
> Business.
>
> Any idea what happened, and how do I get my sound back?

Reinstall your sound card drivers as a first step.


Malke
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Assuming this is onboard sound, go to the motherboard manufacturer's website
and download/install the audio driver.

Cheers!


"Terry Carnes" <tcarnes@reedfax.com> wrote in message
news:49406D7D-5A91-4370-9C50-87AB47A92750@microsoft.com...
> My new laptop came with Vista Business. This weekend I upgraded to Vista
> Ulimate and when I finished my audio devices had disappeared. I'm
> up-to-date according to Windows Update.
>
> My volume tray icon has a red circle with a white "x" showing it is
> disabled, hovering over the tray icon gives the message, "No Audio Output
> Device is installed." Everything was working fine with Vista Business.
>
> Any idea what happened, and how do I get my sound back?
>
> Terry

I have a Toshiba Protege w/ Sigmatel audio device and I was dealing with
the same exact problem after i upgraded my vista. Finally, after
several failed attempts, i found a solution on Andreas09's blog,
Computer Bits. (Thanks btw!):

-For those of you having issues with sound on Vista after an upgrade
from an earlier version of Vista (and maybe XP - not sure), there is a
bug with the Sigmatel driver installation package that affects the
upgrade scenario. It will look like the install worked, but you’ll get
the error “No Audio Output Device Installed” as a tooltip from the
system tray speaker icon, and in the Control Panel sound settings
dialog. You can get around this by going to Device Manager,
*uninstalling* the Sigmatel audio that appears under sound devices
(choose to remove the software too, this won’t remove the installer,
just the copied driver), and running the installer’s setup.exe (as
Administrator).-

But before you can do all that above, you must first download the right
vista audio driver for for your computer. Since i have a toshiba, i
just went to their website and downloaded it from there
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...all_docs=false

Anyways, g'luck! hope this helps!


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