CF-19 MK1 Vista and Windows 7 (?) no sound solution!!!

So I have seen a few posts, and put one up there myself, about this problem. Following the Panasonic drivers install guide, is NOT ENOUGH. There are a couple missing steps.

I will outline how I got mine working.

EDIT: This is now confirmed in both Vista, and Windows 7!

1) Before installing sound drivers, make sure modem is installed. Vista Ultimate Lite (Ie a stripped down VIsta disc) still found the right drivers automatically, but to be sure I went to drivers in device manager, and did an update drivers, have disc, just to be 100% sure.

2) A generic driver had been found for the sound. I did the have disc then directed it to c:\util2\drivers\sound\WDM. I am not 100% sure this step is necessary at this point. It does get the Sigma Tel drivers into the drivers list though. I restarted, the sound was no longer working.

3) In the sound folder, there is a SETUP.exe. I ran this. It brings up the Sigma Tel install program. I restarted. Now it will show Sigma Tel down in the taskbar, but it has a red x and says "no drivers installed for this device"

4) Go back into device manager, update driver. Select from drivers on the computer. Two should now show up in the options. One is called Sigma Tel CODEC something something. Choose the other generic one.

Of course even though it was the original Microsoft Driver, MS will complain that it might not work. Install anyways. Restart.

Everything will be working now!

The Sigma Tel drivers are really not drivers, as much as a CODEC that apparently gets added to the more basic Microsoft driver. Not 100% sure if this is the perfect way to do it. Or if this is the correct" description of what is actually happening. But I spent several days poking at this before on the W7 and had troubles with it. I was uninstalling the Sigma Tel "drivers" though. This time even though I selected the "generic" drivers, on the next restart, it shows Sigma Tel High Definition Audio CODEC installed under sound.

So it works and if it is not the most straightforward path, it finally got me there!

 

Yup... It works on W7... That is how I installed the sound driver on a few installations.

 

And now I can confirm it is working in Windows 7!

The Vista load sucked. After many hours of poking at it, and I still couldn't get the digitizer to work, I gave up and cloned the drive back to where I left off with W7. Not sure what the malfunction was, but even following my own thread outline didn't get it working.

The secret ingredient I think is just NOT deleting the old drivers and software when loading the Sigma Tell in.