A clean install is not a "cure for everything" as you stated. It is simply
the only prudent way to install any software, whether it is a repair install
or an upgrade install. Why incorporate the old within the new? You don't wear
a new pair of pants over your old and/or dirty pants. You remove the old
first. Why should software be any different?

"Lloyd Sheen" wrote:
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> "CB" <CB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> >I also have Sigma Tel and have had no problems whatsoever. You should first
> > make sure your audio is enabled and that you have selected this device for
> > your sound. I would suggest you reformat your hard drive and do a CLEAN
> > install of Vista. Have a nice day.
> >
> > "SeniorNovice" wrote:
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> >> Installed Vista over XP. No sound. New drivers, old drivers, nothing
> >> helped.
> >>
> >> I need suggestions about how to get sound.
> >>
> >> Jerry
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> I have the same and Vista install was good with sound. There was a Windows
> Update for Sigma Tel after which I lost sound. Had to restore. This
> behaviour is very Vista like. No much works with Vista and the constant
> suggestion that the cure for everything is CLEAN install is just wrong. How
> about if MS gets their act together. Vista and all the surrounding problems
> is on the verge of criminal incompentence.
>
> Lloyd Sheen
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