no sound on a dell inspiron 6000

[nicku72]

Hi all

Hope you can help? I have upgraded my laptop to vista home premium and now lost all sound. When i put the cursor over the sound speaker icon it says no audio output device instaled. It worked before but now there is nothing. Please help!!!

Thanks Nick

[NeilX90]

Hi Nick

Bad news mate... Dell doesn't support Vista on these older laptops so there's no easy download. A quick Google showed that the audio chipset is compatible with the AC97 standard so you might try a download of Vista drivers for that, but it's a bit of a long-shot hoping that one will work.

I'm guessing you had XP before ?

What might be worth a shot is bypassing Vista and going straight to Win7 - there is a much better chance that OS will detect your hardware out of the box.

[Nox]

if the drivers don't work, another option is to get a USB sound card - I got one a little while ago, cost around £7 or so (from here)

Nox

[nicku72]

Hi all

Thanks for the replys guys, and yes it was xp before. i will search for some ac97 drivers and give them a go. The only reason i installed it was because the xp was corrupt and i did not have the original. so my sister got it for me cheap.

Cheers nick

[Andrew Moore]

Install ALL updates and it works! Had the 6000 with a 2.13 pentium m, x300 128, 1920x1200 display n all that jazz! itll b fine pal! no drivers work on vista until u go on search update.. its in there sumwhere so just download and install everything! I promise you you will have sound soon ;)

Andy