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    No sound after Vista upgrade

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Vandal, Feb 1, 2007.

  1. Vandal

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    I have an SZ120P/B and installed Vista Business night before last. So far I've gotten just about everything working - fingerprint reader, function keys for brightness, touchpad scrolling, etc. but no sound. I have installed, uninstalled, rolled back drivers, tried installing chipset drivers direct from Intel and nothing has worked so far. And from searching on Google it looks like Sigmatel had issues with Vista right up into the release candidates. Anyone else have this problem? What did you do to fix it? I'm tearing my hair out here. And where is the Power Management utility? My fan runs constantly now. Ideas?
     
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    Thanks, but I have already installed all the drivers from Sonys esupport. The Sony audio driver (and a couple of other Sigmatel dirvers I've tried) don't work. Anyone else?
     
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    I taught I was the only one. All Sony drivers are useless.
    Ever since I installed the VGA driver, my screen as been flickering
    In fact, I am better off with the microsoft in-box driver
     
    surefire, Feb 2, 2007
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    Well, I think I'm going to back up my data on a friends USB drive, format and install a clean XP base and try again. If I still don't get any joy, you'll be seeing an SZ120 on eBay very soon.
     
    Vandal, Feb 2, 2007
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    I finally fixed the vista sound problem! Its so easy I'm pissed it took this long and I even took the notebook to the Geek Squad and they couldn't help.

    Simply go to device manager and uninstall the sound device and drivers.

    Then go to control panel to windows update and have windwos check for updates.

    It will find and instal the sound drivers on its own and your able to use immediately!

    Simple huh? Why didn't we think of this before?

    Good Luck
     
    jc_law, Feb 4, 2007
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    Yeah, I tried that two or three times, didn't work for me. I broke down and formatted and installed from scratch. This time I just let Windows install the driver on it's own and it's been working fine. This clean install loads and runs WAY faster too. Now if they'd just fix the stinkin' camera utility. But I can pretty much live without that for a while.
     
    Vandal, Feb 4, 2007
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