Windows 7 The sound isn't working...

[Devourer]

I own an HP Pavilion zv6000, and recently installed Windows 7 on it. The OS is great, and I can't find any glitches in it-as far as daily usage goes-except for one. THE SOUND ISN'T WORKING! I installed the latest Realtek driver, and when I go to the device manager and click on "Realtek AC'97 Audio", the dialog box that comes up says "This device cannot start. (Code 10)". Can anyone help?

 

[Devourer]

I really need help with this.

 

[loathe]

Try clicking "update driver" in the device manager under your audio driver. If that dont work uninstall the driver and reboot, Windows might find a working driver, and if that does work try installing the new driver in compatibility mode

 

[rollingstar35]

I too installed the windows 7 ultimate and found that there is no sound, i tried to do that by searching for any drivers for windows 7, but they are not out yet. I have a lenovo machine, so what I did was, I went to the lenovo site, downloaded the sound drivers for vista for my notebook model. I installed them, it worked. So, what I think is, download the sound drivers from your laptops company website for VISTA.

BOB

 

[reghakr]

Try the latest drivers for Vista here:

Realtek AC97 audio driver for Windows Vista download - Vista AC97 driver 6285

Scroll down and click on the download link, do not scan your computer for updated drivers.

I don't know whether this card has SPDIF out, but it's a fact in Windows 7, that SPDIF is not working.

 

[Devourer]

I've looked and looked for the driver, and I've installed the latest Vista drivers, but nothing is working! I think I'm just going to go back to XP.

 

[skeldon]

mine isnt working either but i had problems before and had a spare sound card (a long time ago) i forgot it was in there and never even used it so i am using that and it seems to work fine. it picks up both but just says there is no speakers plugged into the onboard sound???

 

[reghakr]

Try this link, seems as though it's a common problem:

sound device cannot start. (Code 10) - Google Search