Missing hd audio codec

Thanks for the reply. I actually tried that driver before along with about a couple dozen others. I've even been paying for tech support from a Dell representative. She's put in about six hours alongside my fifteen or so. I guess either the real problem here is either really complex or so simple we can't see it.

Thanks for the reply. I actually tried that driver before along with about a couple dozen others. I've even been paying for tech support from a Dell representative. She's put in about six hours alongside my fifteen or so. I guess either the real problem here is either really complex or so simple we can't see it.

I have the same problem? Actually I'm the same guy, I just couldn't find a link to let me post this somewhere else, it was probably right under my nose and I just couldn't see it.

The audio driver worked just fine in Vista, which is about the only good thing I have to say about that OS. After wiping Vista out I did a full system scan from the Dell drivers and utilities disk that came with the PC. Everything came back fine on that so I don't think it's a physical problem with the hardware. The rep that helped me was doing pretty much the same thing I've been doing; downloading and trying every driver we can find. I've also scoured several different forums where people had the same problem. The solutions that worked for them didn't work for me, but then none of the others had the exact same model computer as me either. Earlier today the only thing giving me a yellow ! in device driver was the hd audio codec, and any attempt to play a cd brought up a missing hardware dialogue from media player. Now, the ! is gone and media player goes right along like it's playing the cd but there's no sound.
I have the same problem? Actually I'm the same guy, I just couldn't find a link to let me post this somewhere else, it was probably right under my nose and I just couldn't see it.

The audio driver worked just fine in Vista, which is about the only good thing I have to say about that OS. After wiping Vista out I did a full system scan from the Dell drivers and utilities disk that came with the PC. Everything came back fine on that so I don't think it's a physical problem with the hardware. The rep that helped me was doing pretty much the same thing I've been doing; downloading and trying every driver we can find. I've also scoured several different forums where people had the same problem. The solutions that worked for them didn't work for me, but then none of the others had the exact same model computer as me either. Earlier today the only thing giving me a yellow ! in device driver was the hd audio codec, and any attempt to play a cd brought up a missing hardware dialogue from media player. Now, the ! is gone and media player goes right along like it's playing the cd but there's no sound.