No sound in Vista

[fr]

I installed Vista on a Vaio S170 with ADI SoundMax integrated audio.

I've tried installing the WXP driver from Sony's site. The setup runs, I reboot, but it doesn't seem to do anything. My audio device still shows in the Device Manager with the exclamation mark because no drivers are installed. Is there a way to extract the drivers from the EXE so I can manually install them?

I've also tried the generic RealTek AC97 drivers for Vista. They install fine and everything *seems* like it's working, but there is no sound output at all.

This siteis the most popular result on Google, but those drivers don't output any audio either.

 

[marulee]

Originally posted by: fr
I installed Vista on a Vaio S170 with ADI SoundMax integrated audio.

I've tried installing the WXP driver from Sony's site. The setup runs, I reboot, but it doesn't seem to do anything. My audio device still shows in the Device Manager with the exclamation mark because no drivers are installed. Is there a way to extract the drivers from the EXE so I can manually install them?

I've also tried the generic RealTek AC97 drivers for Vista. They install fine and everything *seems* like it's working, but there is no sound output at all.

This siteis the most popular result on Google, but those drivers don't output any audio either.

Best thing is remove the driver files from your system first, then auto scan the driver after reboot the PC. Presumably it will pass the logo test by vista if new copied driver on you HD is not corrupted.

 

[fr]

When I do that, it says no drivers can be found for my device. I should also mention the only way I've been able to install any drivers at all has been to force them by going into Device Manager and using the "Have Disk..." method. Sound was working fine in XP a day before the Vista install with the Sony drivers.

 

[fr]

Okay, I figured it out. I ran the Sony driver install under XP compatibility mode and that got sound working, but it was very choppy. I would also get an error message from the driver software at boot saying no codec was installed. I disabled the SoundMax system service and now it seems to work fine. I'm good to go!