did a clean install of vista ultimate oin my daughters pc , everything works great except sound , it had the ac97 audio onboard but could not get it to go no matter how many times i updated the drivers for vista , so my daughter got a envy24 hts 8 channel sound card , so i installed this and it says the same no audio output installed , i have installed the vista drivers for it and still no joy , please help if you can.
dave

does the sound tray icon have a red cross on it?
or any other symtom like "no audio device"
eg.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400...
(right click bottom r/corner to enlarge)

... if NO errors and you have subwoofer surround sound etc
try switching cables around.
... tried this on a friends and poof everything OK now

hi ,
yes icon has red cross on it , and when you put mouse over icon it says no audio device connected , and yet i have searched the net and installed drivers for vista for this card but still wont work

Hi mrmacca

Press] windows/Flag key + Pause key (go to)
> Device Manager > +sound,video game* (<<anything here?)
... it should show audio drivers here
... if they're here it wo'nt be a driver problem.

... as soon as you plug in the cables correctly, it'll
detect source from external speakers etc

... (like) the image in the link which should change dramatically
to 3d type images of speakers ... (bells n whistles)
then you'll have sound.