Need audio driver(s) for SigmaTel in Windows 7 ...

[barney]

OK,

Disaster just struck.  Restarted Win7, & the audio drivers won't load ... been working fine under Win7RC and even under Win7 for the last week or so.  However when I attempt to reload the drivers, Win7 says the installer won't work - even though it did before <sigh />.  Thought I needed to download new drivers, but having a damnable time finding the right download.  Win7 won't identify the sound card, just tells me it's high definition.  None of the hardware recognition & listing software I've used in the past tells me anything more.  Finally reinstalled Belarc Advisor, and it tells me the sound card is SigmaTel, Inc. - C-Major Audio Version 1.0.5405.0 nd574 .  Unfortunately, I can't use that to find the appropriate codecs on Gateway or SigmaTel site(s).

Box is a Gateway GT5064, 2.8 G cpu, 3 G ram, terabyte drives, sound card embedded on motherboard, if any of that is significant.

W/O sound, I lose a significant portion of usability, i.e., alerts, warnings, audio & video tutorials, voice chat, teleconferencing ... you get the picture.

Does anyone have any idea how to counteract this situation?

(Actually, I was pretty fond of Win7 up until now, in spite of a few unwarranted - to my mind - restrictions.)

Please help if you can ... I'm open to just about any suggestion (no, not Linux ... that's on another partition <chortle />.)

[40hz]

Hi:

You most likely need this:

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[daor79]

OK,

Disaster just struck.  Restarted Win7, & the audio drivers won't load ... been working fine under Win7RC and even under Win7 for the last week or so.  However when I attempt to reload the drivers, Win7 says the installer won't work - even though it did before <sigh />.  Thought I needed to download new drivers, but having a damnable time finding the right download.  Win7 won't identify the sound card, just tells me it's high definition.  None of the hardware recognition & listing software I've used in the past tells me anything more.  Finally reinstalled Belarc Advisor, and it tells me the sound card is SigmaTel, Inc. - C-Major Audio Version 1.0.5405.0 nd574 .  Unfortunately, I can't use that to find the appropriate codecs on Gateway or SigmaTel site(s).

If you need SigmaTel Drivers for Win7 try this link http://www.windows7update.com/Windows7-SigmaTelDrivers.html

_{edited to remove spam links hidden in quoted text. -app103}

[Innuendo]

If you need SigmaTel Drivers for Win7 try this link http://www.windows7update.com/Windows7-SigmaTelDrivers.html

Never heard of www.windows7update.com so thought I'd check it out. The page referenced gives a link to Microsoft's web site. I was using Firefox so I got an error message that I needed to be using IE8.

Fair enough...so I tried through IE8 & that link just leads to the Microsoft Update Catalog & returns 1,000 search results which none on the first page were what the OP needs.

I think 40hz has the right answer.

[barney]

Hi:

You most likely need this:
(see attachment in previous post)
Download from this link:

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=21615&dscr=WIndows%20Vista%20(32-bit%20or%2064-bit)%20Sigmatel%20HD%20Audio%20Driver%206.10.5405.0

Luck!

Thx, 40Hz, but that's the one that gave me an error ... not the correct audio drive for this system <sigh />.

Tried several others, to no avail.  This is really pulling my cork <groan />.

[barney]

Update.

Finally got an older version of the driver installation software to run.  Installed v5.10.4487 of the SigmaTel drivers.  Still don't know why the drivers went away to start with, but audio is back.  Seems funny that the Vista-capable installer won't work, but an XP version will.

Anyway, the issue is resolved - for now <sigh />.

[barney]

New update.

The previous fix worked until reboot.  Did not work a 2nd time  .

Ran across Device Doctor - including a portable version -DeviceDoctor Portable - Repair Tool of the Week (http://www.technibble.com/devicedoctor-repair-tool-of-the-week/) at Technibble, free, and supports Win7.

Tried that.  Program ran, then downloaded the driver(s) I needed - had a little trouble connecting to the Web, but otherwise ran fine.  It doesn't install things, just downloads them and lets you do the install, which I like.  The site maintains its own database and stores the drivers locally, rather than trotting off to a vendor site.

Survived one reboot & one hibernation ... maybe it's fixed this time.

Anyway, the Device Doctor app looks a promising addition to my troubleshooting USB stick.

[cmpm]

Sigmatel was updated to IDT PC Audio on  most gateway p2's.

http://www.idt.com/

Windows update may find it.
If not try Driver Genius 9.

http://www.driver-soft.com/

hm, correction, that's pentium d not 2
the pre coreduo machine
not sure if it's the same case with yours
but I had sigmatel and got udpated
but i can't remember from where