IDT Audio IDT High Definition Audio CODEC ERROR

I have Vista and ran the IDT - Audio - IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
update yesterday and now I get the following on the volumn control:
NO AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE IS INSTALLED

I checked "installed updates" to remove this and it is not there.

I tried to restore back to several restore points and I got an
unspecified error for all the restores.

What should I try next? Jim

 

I have a gateway with the sigma tel sound driver that is preventing the
update to sp1. I installed this windows update, which is some manner removed
the sigma tel driver. I contacted gateway chat support, who pointed me to an
unsigned driver on the gateway site, which I downloaded, this provided
instructions to reload and I got sound back. HOWEVER, it remains to be
seen if windows update will then "find" the sp1 update for me, one concern
already, when I reselected windows update, it found the same IDT CODEC update
already installed on the machine.

 

System Restore should solve the problem at least for most people with this
case.
I suggest you "hide update" (I mean this particular driver update) and don't
turn System Restore off because System Restore is very useful.

I wonder when they will stop pushing this driver and test it to work
properly before pushing it through Windows Update again. At the time of this
post I checked for update and was offered this broken driver again.

I also think that the feature "Roll Back Driver" should be made to really
roll back the driver as in this case using that feature doesn't help. There
is no sound after that even when you reboot.

Some people at their Support should try to take customers complaints more
seriously. Still pushing this driver will just cause more people to fall into
this mess. Stop and test the driver.

 

Having the same issue here with Windows Vista - System Restore fails to
restore.
Windows update does not show this as a driver that you can Uninstall

Interestingly enough - today "Windows Vista SP1" shows as an Important
Update available to install.

I'm giving this a try now.

 

Mick I fought with this for a couple of weeks with my dell and ended up just
buying a sound card for $25.00. It works fine and sounds good. The amount of
time spent on this ended not being worth it. I don't believe there are any
current drivers to get anywhere. I got my Dell in 05 and it basically works
fine untill a major crash (Blue Screen) First was the hal.dll corrupt or
missing then pci.sys ( and $50.00 bucks to dell for nothing. They said my
mother board was bad in the end. BUT I ended up loading a new XP program and
WALLA it worked fine all except for sound. I am sure it was a driver problem
but like I said I searched and searched everywhere and could not get the
sound working and I tried everything. My son who is an expert was helping and
had the same problem. He finally said dad go buy a sound card. I did and it
all works fine. Dell was wrong. Every help site didn't work WITH PEOPLE WITH
THE SAME PROBLEM. Take my advice and just buy a sound card They're cheap and
you get good sound. That was my fix and I don't believe the right drivers are
anywhere. I just went through all of this to maybe help someone from wasting
to much time. Gimme some feed back-I'll be Baak

 

As stated above buy a new sound card and save yourself a BIG headache.
I really hop this helps someone after what I went through.