6860 sound drivers no longer work after vista update

My sound drivers was working fine until I did a windows update the other day (sound driver included). My ubuntu partition is working fine, so it has to do somthing with the update. Is anyone else having this problem?

 

Yup! I have Vista x64 and after my clean install sound was fine.... that is until I did an update. No sound! so I rolled the drivers back and sound returned. What gives!

 

Vista Sp1 did have some problems with drivers for various hardware. Windows Update was supposed to identify which drivers had the issues and not to give those updates to those machines, but this is Microsoft we are talking about. You no the company that accidentally sent out Sp1 updates a month before they were supposed to (a beta version) and screwed up allot of computers. When I did a clean install of Vista 32bit on my system it said it had 7 updates for me but only 6 installed. So maybe no 7 would have been the one to screw up my sound, i don't know.
Seanno

 

I usually don't use any Microsoft update drivers, I like to get my drivers direct from the source.

 

My sound is not working either. didn't think it had anything to do with a windows update, but I might have had a couple beers in me at the time so who the heck knows! hehe. Here's my story:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=246771

Not that this is a big deal because I could just update the drivers, but my recovery disk is being a pain in the rear. Haven't been able to get any computer to read it for a couple days now. Wouldn't be a problem if Gateway's driver page would have better drivers for 6860fx w/ Vista 64. Anybody know which ones to use I'd appreciate if you could tell me. I tried the drivers for the 6831 w/ Vista 32, but no go.

Oh and for good measure here's the link to the drivers page I get(pretty sparse):

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/mydl.asp?tab=MY&os=Windows Vista (64-bit)

 

same here...i second this post!

way to many extra problems when using microsoft for drivers...not sure why...

 

I did find a driver pack that somone put together for a dell, it works, however only if I plugin speakers to the laptop, the builtin speakes do not work. I will get the link to the thread in a little bit.

I would love to simply roll back my driver, however I thought the driver listed on the gateway website would work and installed it (and uninstalled the current drivers), so I have nothing to roll back to.:/

 

Ok, here is the page I found with a fix for the sound (atleast if you use headpones or external speakers), I havnt gotten the laptop speakers to work, but it is a start atleast. My modem also still doesnt work, however I honestly am not worried about that as it will never be used anyway.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2944329&SiteID=17

 

I had a very similar problem (it was on my desktop though). The root of the problem is that after the vista update, the OS "saw" a digital audio device and it defaulted all the sound to it. Once I went into the sound setup through control panel and disabled my phantom digital audio device my speakers worked just fine.