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by jdillman

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I am running Vista Business on a Dell Dimension C521. I downloaded and installed the sound drivers from dell's website but I get no sound from my speakers. My volume mixer says that there is no audio device installed, but my speakers don't have an install, they just plug and play. I tried them out on an XP machine, another dell, I installed the sound drivers for the PC and plugged in the speakers and they worked. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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by thechas

You either installed the wrong drivers or need to install the drivers again.

The sound device the mixer refers to is your sound controller not your speakers.

You can try opening Device Manager and either deleting the sound or multi-media device, or update the driver.

Often, all you need to do is delete the device and allow Windows to install the device again on the next boot.

Chas

by jdillman

Thank you very much! I uninstalled the device and then when I rebooted, Vista installed the device and it worked.

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