I have a new Gateway with Sigmatel audio on an Intel board. I installed
Vista and lost the sound, even though Vista claims there is a driver
installed for the Sigmatel audio chip. I then installed the latest Intel
driver on it's site and supposedly the sound was installed, but it is not
what I call sound, just some low groans and beats. It isn't even good enough
to be called distorted. Has anyone had luck getting sound from the Sigmatel
chip and if so, how? I'm discgusted that even INtel can't provide adequate
sound drivers for Vista even after it's introduction. The computer is
worthless without sound, at least to me. Or maybe MS should take the wrap
for programing a sound system that no one can provide sound drivers for!
There is also lots of trouble with SoundBlaster cards and audio and no
drivers for all their cards.

I'm replying to my own message as I found a way to get the drivers
installed. Don't know if this is necessary, but first uninstall Sigmtel
drivers currently on computer. Then I reinstalled WinXP drivers using
compatibility mode for WinXPsp2. Sound was awful, but at least the sound
device was listed. With the Vista drivers it said no sound device was
present. Then, without uninstalling anything (as windows vista drivers seem
to leave out something) I installed the vista drivers through device manager
by browsing for the folder where the inf file was located (WDM folder under
the expanded Vista driver folder.) Once that was done and I'd rebooted, I
had pretty good sound and everything seems to be working. Mike isn't too
clear all the time, but at least it's giving me passable sound (as I use it
a lot for internet phoning to my grandkids overseas.) Hopefully this will
help some others out there having problems. This might not have happened
with a clean install, but I was trying to see what an upgrade install would
be like. (Still using RC2). When I get my upgrade disk, I'll know what to
do for the best install.
"Jo" <Jo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B9CBBEC6-25A1-4D47-8BF2-5EF9169019CF@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have a new Gateway with Sigmatel audio on an Intel board. I installed
> Vista and lost the sound, even though Vista claims there is a driver
> installed for the Sigmatel audio chip. I then installed the latest Intel
> driver on it's site and supposedly the sound was installed, but it is not
> what I call sound, just some low groans and beats. It isn't even good
> enough
> to be called distorted. Has anyone had luck getting sound from the
> Sigmatel
> chip and if so, how? I'm discgusted that even INtel can't provide
> adequate
> sound drivers for Vista even after it's introduction. The computer is
> worthless without sound, at least to me. Or maybe MS should take the wrap
> for programing a sound system that no one can provide sound drivers for!
> There is also lots of trouble with SoundBlaster cards and audio and no
> drivers for all their cards.[/color]