Sound Driver issues! Advent 9915w

Hi,

My sound has been running absolutely fine since I bought this Advent 9915w laptop, and after a windows update a couple of moths ago, my sound stopped working completely. When I tried to update the Realtek HD driver, the message 'no sound devices can be detected' kept coming up (or something of the sort!) I thought it would be wise to uninstall the old driver completely, and re-install the new one. However, the same message keeps coming up - and even if the driver does seem to install correctly, I restart the machine, and there is still no sound. When I click on the speaker icon in the bottom corner, the message 'No Audio Output Device Installed' comes up. HELP!!!! :cry

I run Windows Vista Home 32- bit OS, and Firefox browser, if that's of use.

Thanks to anyone that can assist!

 

are you sure you are using the correct drivers?
advent is a little tricky with finding drivers. found some here
http://www.driverstools.com/advent-drivers/driver-advent-9915wquanta-pl3c-for-windows-xp-and-vista/

according to the .inf for the driver listed there, it's a Conexant High Definition Audio driver, not realtek

 

Thanks for that thesmokinggun. For some reason I was previously convinced that it was a realtek driver needed! I've now downloaded the conexant driver from the link you gave - the driver semed to install correctly. However, I still have no sound :-S Everest shows that I'm still running Windows Vista SP1 - could this be a problem?

Cheers :cool

 

Halo - you are an angel!

I didn't see the realtek driver in device manager - but when I double checked in the programme uninstaller, it was still there! I uninstalled it, and the correct driver by conexant worked straight away! (Thanks thesmokingun for that too!)