Help! Lost audio in a Vista Home to Vista Ultimate upgrade!

Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) & upgraded to
Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of those
being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
"Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit compatable.
I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red x in
the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says "no audio
output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists my sound
card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as working.
I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Try Deleting your Sound Card in Device Manager - Reboot
Sound Card will be refound and then make sure you have
latest Vista Driver installed.

"bbsstmez" <> wrote in message
news:0E4B5B1E-B992-4764-BA57-...
> Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) & upgraded to
> Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of those
> being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
> "Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit
> compatable.
> I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red x in
> the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says "no
> audio
> output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists my
> sound
> card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as
> working.
> I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further suggestions?
> Thanks in advance for any help!

Fantastic! I had the same problem with a day old laptop when upgrading from
Vista small business to Ultimate, followed your instructions and, bingo, we
have sound. Thank you

"Spirit" wrote:

> Try Deleting your Sound Card in Device Manager - Reboot
> Sound Card will be refound and then make sure you have
> latest Vista Driver installed.
>
> "bbsstmez" <> wrote in message
> news:0E4B5B1E-B992-4764-BA57-...
> > Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) & upgraded to
> > Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of those
> > being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
> > "Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit
> > compatable.
> > I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red x in
> > the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says "no
> > audio
> > output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists my
> > sound
> > card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as
> > working.
> > I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further suggestions?
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>

Check out the following:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937077/

"Georgie Porgie Puddin' and Pie" wrote:

> Fantastic! I had the same problem with a day old laptop when upgrading from
> Vista small business to Ultimate, followed your instructions and, bingo, we
> have sound. Thank you
>
> "Spirit" wrote:
>
> > Try Deleting your Sound Card in Device Manager - Reboot
> > Sound Card will be refound and then make sure you have
> > latest Vista Driver installed.
> >
> > "bbsstmez" <> wrote in message
> > news:0E4B5B1E-B992-4764-BA57-...
> > > Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) & upgraded to
> > > Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of those
> > > being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
> > > "Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit
> > > compatable.
> > > I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red x in
> > > the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says "no
> > > audio
> > > output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists my
> > > sound
> > > card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as
> > > working.
> > > I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further suggestions?
> > > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> >

I have the exact same error with a Gateway NX 860XL laptop. I tried this and
the sound card was re-installed however I still get the message "No audio
output device is installed".

"Spirit" wrote:

> Try Deleting your Sound Card in Device Manager - Reboot
> Sound Card will be refound and then make sure you have
> latest Vista Driver installed.
>
> "bbsstmez" <> wrote in message
> news:0E4B5B1E-B992-4764-BA57-...
> > Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) & upgraded to
> > Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of those
> > being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
> > "Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit
> > compatable.
> > I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red x in
> > the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says "no
> > audio
> > output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists my
> > sound
> > card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as
> > working.
> > I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further suggestions?
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>

This worked for me, too. I have a Dell Inspirion. I just upgraded from Vista
Home Basic to Premium. The sound didn't work after the upgrade. I was very
happy to find this fix. I deleted the Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio
Driver in the Device Manager and restarted. I was very happy to hear that MS
startup chord and not see the red X over the speaker icon when my computer
restarted.


"Spirit" wrote:

> Try Deleting your Sound Card in Device Manager - Reboot
> Sound Card will be refound and then make sure you have
> latest Vista Driver installed.
>
> "bbsstmez" <> wrote in message
> news:0E4B5B1E-B992-4764-BA57-...
> > Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) & upgraded to
> > Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of those
> > being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
> > "Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit
> > compatable.
> > I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red x in
> > the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says "no
> > audio
> > output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists my
> > sound
> > card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as
> > working.
> > I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further suggestions?
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>

I had vista basic and upgraded to ultimate. I had the same thing going on
and just deleted mine. getting ready to restart my computer

"K_Drive" wrote:

> This worked for me, too. I have a Dell Inspirion. I just upgraded from Vista
> Home Basic to Premium. The sound didn't work after the upgrade. I was very
> happy to find this fix. I deleted the Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio
> Driver in the Device Manager and restarted. I was very happy to hear that MS
> startup chord and not see the red X over the speaker icon when my computer
> restarted.
>
>
> "Spirit" wrote:
>
> > Try Deleting your Sound Card in Device Manager - Reboot
> > Sound Card will be refound and then make sure you have
> > latest Vista Driver installed.
> >
> > "bbsstmez" <> wrote in message
> > news:0E4B5B1E-B992-4764-BA57-...
> > > Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) & upgraded to
> > > Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of those
> > > being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
> > > "Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit
> > > compatable.
> > > I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red x in
> > > the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says "no
> > > audio
> > > output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists my
> > > sound
> > > card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as
> > > working.
> > > I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further suggestions?
> > > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> >

i can't find a sound card. It says no audio device installed. BUT i did
find sigmatel audio is that it? I have a Dell Inspiron E 1505...

Spirit;3008567 Wrote:
> Try Deleting your Sound Card in Device Manager - Reboot
> Sound Card will be refound and then make sure you have
> latest Vista Driver installed.
>
> "bbsstmez" <> wrote in message
> news:0E4B5B1E-B992-4764-BA57-...
> > Can anyone help? I was running Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) &
> upgraded to
> > Vista Ultimate. After the upgrade I lost 2 key components. One of
> those
> > being my audio. I went to Dells web site. The list an audio driver
> > "Sigmatel STAC92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver" which is Vista 32 bit
> > compatable.
> > I downloaded & installed it but still no luch. There is a little red
> x in
> > the tray on the bottom left of my screeen which when clicked says
> "no
> > audio
> > output deviceis installed". I went into device manager which lists
> my
> > sound
> > card as "Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec" which is listed as
> > working.
> > I am not very computer savy & out of my league, any further
> suggestions?
> > Thanks in advance for any help!


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On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:11:25 +0530, jola <>
wrote:

>Excellent Spirit! Thank you so much. This worked like a charm on my
>vaio.

The post you are replying to appeared 11 months ago.

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