my sound will not work, it hasnt worked for the past 6 months im running vista service pack 1
My audio driver is "Realtek High Definition Audio"
There is a Gray speaker with a white "X" over it in the system tray.
I have tried the following to get my sound back.
1. Uninstalling the driver from the device manager and then reboot to get it back, when rebooted, the installer says it failed to install.
2. Upgrading the driver, when I do this, it says I have already updated to the latest driver when in fact the sound doesn't work.
3. Sometime when I try to upgrade the driver again it gives me another message saying cannot install, it may have been corrupted or missing(code39).
4. System restore
5. Uninstalled the driver from add/remove programs. All that did was remove "Realtek" from the sentence and it just left "High Definition Audio in the device manager.
6. Downloaded and installed once again the Realtek's driver from Realtek's site, so now "Realtek is back with "High Definition Audio" part.
7. I've tried rolling back the driver and then upgrading it and no luck.
8. I've went to the BIOS and there isn't even anything about Realtek anything except the boot order but that's not related to my problem.
9. I've typed in "services.msc" in run, and then went to "Windows Audio" and tried to enable it. But it was already enabled and set to automatic.