Audio Driver help

[68vetteracer]

OK so i just installed windows 7 on one computers and i can't get the sound to work so i figured this would be a good place to start. The motherboard is a MSI k9n4 sli with a realtek AC'97 on-board audio. I went to the MSI website but no luck there. then i searched online and found some downloads but nothing seemed to work so from what i know of computers the on-board sound on this motherboard is fairly common so hopefully someone has found a solution, otherwise i could just buy a cheap sound card and do that but if i don't have to spend any money that would be cool.

So thanks for the help

Ben

[Nuclear Krusader]

Have you tried Windows Update? The optional updates section sometimes contains drivers for old hardware.

[MikeMoss]

Hi

I just went through something like this on a friends Dell computer.
After upgrading to Windows 7, every thing worked great but the sound.

I tried reinstalling the drivers, I tried different drivers etc. nothing seems to help.

Device Manger said that the device is working normally.

Finally I went into device device manager and uninstalled the sound device.
I also unplugged the speakers and rebooted the computer.

When I restarted I got the Windows has found new hardware and is setting it up message.

When I plugged in the speakers I had sound.

I don't know if this will work for you but it's worth a try.
It seems that Windows needed another shot a configuring it.

Mike