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After 6 grueling hours of research and trying every suggesttion I was about to give up when all of the sudden I HAD SOUND! Unfortunately Vista does not have a new theme sound. ...oh well But for all of those that are going through the same pains that I am here is what I have and what I did. I have an HP Pavillion 64 3300+ and I installed an Audigy 2 value edition soundcard. Before I upgraded I wanted to make sure that there were drivers for VIsta and having found so I decided to go ahead and take the jump. Much to my dismay I found out that it was not right for Vista beta 2.
After seeing that it did not work I decided to see if I installed the XP 64 driver that maybe I could fool the system. The installation went great and when I saw a gree speaker at the bottom of the screen I was in 7th. heaven only to find out that according to the device manager erverything was working properly but I had no sound. So after that I decided to run the Vista 64 installation program again and I must admit that I was about to go to bed in frustration only to hear the Windows theme!!!! I hope this can save some time to some of you. Best of luck. Now if I can only get to import my Outlook messages back into Outlook I will be eternally grateful and a step closer to a full system.

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After 6 grueling hours of research and trying every suggesttion I was about to give up when all of the sudden I HAD SOUND! Unfortunately Vista does not have a new theme sound. ...oh well But for all of those that are going through the same pains that I am here is what I have and what I did. I have an HP Pavillion 64 3300+ and I installed an Audigy 2 value edition soundcard. Before I upgraded I wanted to make sure that there were drivers for VIsta and having found so I decided to go ahead and take the jump. Much to my dismay I found out that it was not right for Vista beta 2.
After seeing that it did not work I decided to see if I installed the XP 64 driver that maybe I could fool the system. The installation went great and when I saw a gree speaker at the bottom of the screen I was in 7th. heaven only to find out that according to the device manager erverything was working properly but I had no sound. So after that I decided to run the Vista 64 installation program again and I must admit that I was about to go to bed in frustration only to hear the Windows theme!!!! I hope this can save some time to some of you. Best of luck. Now if I can only get to import my Outlook messages back into Outlook I will be eternally grateful and a step closer to a full system.

Your experience is similar to mine. Sigmatel sound on my Gateway M675 did not have sound after the initial install- even after I installed an update from Windows Update. It wasn't until I ran the Sigmatel installation program for XP that I finally had sound- how sweet it was, too. I did get bold and when Windows Update showed there was an update for Sigmatel- I ran it, even though it didn't work the first time. After a restart, my sound still worked.
I think some folks, after trying other means, should run the installation program that came with their sound card for XP. If you don't have it, go to the manufacturer's site and download the latest sound drivers for XP. Also, check out the computer maker's site for the sound driver/installation program.
-Michael

I have HP Pavillion and installed an Audigy 2 value card. I tried for 6 hours to install and reinstall various drivers and going to the onboard sound all to no avail. Finally I was about to shut down my system in order to go to bed when voila there was the Windows theme (old one at that)
I installed the creative beta for vista but it said that I did not have the correct version of Windows, so I then installed the XP 64 version hoping to fool the system (right!) Anyway to my amusement the XP 64 driver installed very well with the small exception that there was no sound coming out and the device manager said that everything was working properly! Finally what I did was to re-install the Vista 64 driver thnking that nothing was going to happen but amazingly I do have great sound!! I hope that this helps some of you out there. Now I only need to re-import my Oulook address book. Tried it all agian to no avail, any suggestions?