Looking for a universal audo driver

[Adam123]

Hello,

I have a Dell Inspiron Laptop. I changed the OS to a windows XP with a non-english language. Now, my sound card won't work.

My sound card is Sigmatel 9200. I downloaed the driver but it does not work...

I tried a few other drivers but none work.

Is there a universal audio that would work? I don't need crystal clear sound, just as long some noise comes out...

[Fed]

Sigmatel is a chip manufacturer & doesn't supply drivers so I don't know where you got drivers with only that information.

Go to your device manager & remove the audio drivers.
Re-boot your computer & see if xp will detect & install new drivers for you.
If that fails, download, unzip, install & run everest to find out what your sound device is.
http://www.comcen.com.au/~fed/everest.zip
Search the internet for the correct drivers obtained by everest, download & install them.


Feel free to ask any questions along the way or if you get into trouble with this.
Come back & tell us what happened, we thrive on feedback here.

[GX1_Man]

www.support.dell.com for drivers and their support forum. You will find all answers to this vexing problem there.

[Adam123]

Thanks,

I got the driver from Dell. It is the correct driver but it doesn't seem to work on my computer. I keep going to add new hardware, windows doesn't automatically find my sound card, so I manually pick "sound and game devices", then it asks me what driver to install, so I direct it to the driver I downloaded, and the driver installs.

However, nothing happens after install. When I try to play music, windows media player tells me I have no audio hardware

I tried one other thing but it also didn't work. I have a 2nd exact laptop with the english win xp from dell and sound works there.  So I went there to control panel and then to sounds and it had "Sigmatel High Definition Audio CODEC", something the other laptop without sound no longer has.  So I clicked on properties of "Sigmatel High Definition Audio CODEC" --> driver --> driver details. Then I had 10 paths to driver files in the windows system32 directory. I copied those files  to the laptop with no sound. But still does not work...

I actually think the problem is that the laptop thinks there is no hardware audio device at all. Perhaps newer windows OS has some files that older version of windows OS doesn't have and the old non-english windows cannot recognize the audio hardware? What to do?

I installed everest and it says my sound card is "Intel 82801GBM ICH7-M - High Definition Audio Controller [A-1] " but I cannot find a driver for that anywhere.

[Adam123]

here's the full everest report, if anyone could help me find what's the problem, I would be very grateful.

http://204.157.37.100/~proxy/Report.htm

[GX1_Man]

Dell driver installs are very easy and it would be unusual to have to do it the way you described. Did you follow the instructions about running rather than saving to disk?

The report you submitted is less helpful than if you just posted the Dell Service Tag found on the machine or in the BIOS boot up screen.

[Adam123]

I followed all the dell intrusctions. I installed many dell drivers before and no problem... only this one... All other drivers work on the laptop, video, nic, etc. all is fine, just the sound.

The service tag is : BWYRR91

[GX1_Man]

And when you go to this page and input your service tag and choose Drivers and Downloads did you pick the appropriate language? What language was it?

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen

This is the link for what you need. Is that what you got?

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R114075&SystemID=InspironI6400/E1505&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=8907&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&libid=3&fileid=149852

[Adam123]

Yes, that driver is the one I got. I just tried installing it again, and it said "This system does not support the driver you are attempting to install"

The OS language is Polish. When I pick my service tag combined with Polish, I get no audio drivers available.

[GX1_Man]

That sounds diagnostic to me. How about a post on the Dell forums where someone MAY have had this come up before.

www.support.dell.com on the left hand side of the screen. Be sure and let us know.