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    Updates, Sound, and Vista

    Discussion in 'HP' started by stefanoascari, Jul 16, 2007.

  1. stefanoascari

    stefanoascari Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone,
    I have an hp dv6226 and everything was working fine until a windows pop-up said new updates are available, so I installed them and now the sound is disabled. The problem is, I'm still new to Vista and I don't know how to find out what sound card I'm running. Any ideas, anyone ?

    Many thanks!
     
    stefanoascari, Jul 16, 2007
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    All right, so I went to Device Manager and on the sound device I rolled back the driver. I'm sorry for the post and I wish I had caught that earlier. I'm still new to Vista!
     
    stefanoascari, Jul 16, 2007
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    TomTom2007 Notebook Deity

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    It's alright, I had the same exact problem after the new updates.
    It seems that Microsoft was doing its own Vista sound driver update, which had conflicts with the Conexant Audio driver.

    For those of you who still have the problem:

    Go to "Device Manager" (Control Panel - Device Manager)
    Expand "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" (Click "+" sign)
    Right-click every audio driver you see, and "Uninstall" each one.
    (Including Conexant Audio Driver)
    Afterwards, you will see that Vista will recognize the new sound driver and install it, which should be Conexant driver or other original sound driver you had before.
    Then you can go on to HP driver and support site and download the new update for the audio driver and restart your computer. And done.
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    If you still can't hear any sound after the reinstall:
    Click on the "Volume" Icon at bottom right.
    Click on "Mixer"
    Click on "Device"
    Choose "SPDIF Interface (Conexant High Definition Audio)"
    Click on the "Volume" icon to un-mute, and turn the volume slider way up.

    By default on some systems (like mine), it's muted. Just un-mute it and done.
     
    TomTom2007, Jul 16, 2007
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