07/28/07: Because of newer information I’ve edited this post from it’s original form. This post now only includes links to my most recent posts that link directly to the different manufacturers of the SigmaTel drivers or to posts that deliver useful help from myself or others.
Comments are also closed for this post.
Please Read Updates and click the links to them for complete information:
- In the post SigmaTel Vista Driver Installation Step by Step I’ve linked to the PDF from IDT, the SigmaTel Audio owners.
- In the post Updated SigmaTel Drivers for Vista I’ve checked the SigmaTel drivers as of July 3rd.
- In the post SigmaTel RealTek Vista AC97 Drivers I’ve linked to RealTek.
- In a new post “SigmaTel and PC Manufacturers” I’ve linked to the 3 biggest manufacturers that have Vista drivers for the SigmaTel audio codecs.
- I’ve complied the solutions from comments to this and part 2 in this post: SigmaTel Solutions Part 3
- Check out Part II with new info on the SigmaTel drivers straight from the manufacturer.
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Had hella probs with audio tried the update through windows tried re installing old drivers and nothing worked almost gave up then i tried unistalling my audio drivers then reinstalling after restart and Ive got sound out of my headphones cant believe it!!!!!! uninstall your audio drivers start from scratch then reinstall old drivers from resource cd or dell site.
As an update, you can also uninstall the drivers and let Vista reinstall them for you. That should work also. By the time Vista comes out to the mass market the drivers will work in any case. When doing an upgrade there are always quirks that may change the way an OS installs. Sometimes it’s best to save your data, wipe the drive and do a fresh install.
Thanks to both posters – I was a bit worried when I got the warning from the Vista Upgrade Advisor. I feel reassured now!
when i upgraded my dell isp 9300 to rc1 the headphone jack died, thanks to kirk. I grabbed the sigma tel audio driver from dell and like magic it works nows. thanks again Kirk, Gerry
I’m glad to see that this blog as helped some folks. It is always wise to uninstall and reisntall the drivers if you have this type of problem. I used it just yesterday on an employees computer at work.
[...] My original post on the installation the SigmaTel audio drivers in Vista and its comments have sparked a major increase in hits on this blog. It seems that this is a major issue for a lot of us, so much so that I went to the SigmaTel site to see if they had anything on the installation problem. What I found, were two press releases from May & June that express the opinion that the SigmaTel drivers will: Be fully supporting the upcoming Microsoft Vista premium logo program which requires 4-channel CODECs for two separate capture and render scenarios. (Emphasis Added) [...]
The problem i have with my SigmaTel is that Vista does not even recognize that it is there. Rendering it impossible for Vista to auto-update it.
I have downloaded the driver from Dell and installed several times but still can’t get the headphones to work. Any other suggestions?
Having the sa problem. No headphone output on dell Latitude D600. Uninstalling drivers, downloading drivers from dell, reinstalling drivers no good. Anyone got an update on this issue?
Thanks,
I installed Vista on a dell D600 laptop and also couldn’t get sound via my headphones. The problem was nothing to do with drivers – by default the ‘headphones’ level was muted for the audio device!
Go to ‘Sound’ in the control panel and then click on ‘properties’ for the sound device (’SigmaTel C-Major Audio’ in my case). Click on the ‘levels’ tab and scroll down to ‘headphones’. click on the little speaker icon to un-mute headphones!
I’ve got the headphones issue on an Inspiron 6000. Just tried checking the levels as above, but Vista does not even recognise that there is a headphone jack (so there is no levels control). Tried uninstalling, downloading the drivers from Dell, and re-installing, but to no avail. Help!
I’ve got this sorted on the Inspiron 6000 now – I’ve installed the Realtek AC’97 XP drivers (for my Sigmatel C-Major) and that has fixed it, although it took 3 attempts to get through the install process.
1.Right click on the speaker icon, select Playback Devices.
2.Click Speakers one time (should say something like SigmaTel Audio CODEC Working).
3.Click on properties, go to Levels tab.
4.Click on Input Monitor.
Your input is enabled, then just go to Recording tab and select as default the input you’re
going to use (line in, microphone, rear mic)
This should resolve the issue, it’s the same in XP only the Input monitor is a lot harder
to find in Vista! They did a great job hinding it aparantly, don’t you miss the days of
being able to just hit properties? Anyway, took me 1/2 hour to find this, and then it was
an accident. I was getting volume (run my HD DVR sound through the sound card and the DVI
cable through the monitor) according to the Recording properties just no sound coming out.
A simple setting is 99% of the time to blame.
Be aware, I found my first BSOD shortly after getting the sound to install:
My harddrive had gone to sleep (default power saver). IRQ not equal message from sthda.sys
when it came back to the login screen, mouse would not wake it up, error happened after a
keystroke. Came up to login screen for less than 1 second (right when it should play those
two microsoft notes). Disabled all power saving settings and have not had the problem
since.
Forum advice on installing the sound card did not exactly work. Every time I tried
installing the driver manually Vista installed its own driver at the same time. The manual
ly installed driver would not start. Had to let Vista install it then update driver from
manual location. Used the supplied Dell XP drivers. Same resolution for my non-Vista
supported TV Tuner card. Came up Pro Logic Video Capture (is MPEG.TV Phillips) audio
capture, cross bar, etc… Had to update driver each time then searched the folder on the
CD-ROM. Have not found any drivers for XP that will not work in vista on my machine
(except of course video cards, damn them all!)… yet.
Hope this takes care of your mic issues and also helps others who may have had the same
driver install issues I came across
Dimension E521: 160gb SATA HD, 16x DVD+-RW, 1024MB DDR2, SigmaTel High Definition 7.1
Surround, NVIDIA 7300 LE 256MB, INTEX PC TV Capture, Vista RC1
My sound is NOT WORKING, I’ve tried everything on my Fujitsu N6010 and they, FUJITUS, said to bad they arent updating, stillno sound and no alps pad applets, sucks
Hey guys,
If you installed vista on gateway notebook, like i have MX6931 then you goto the Device Manager, then audio devices and then double click on sigmatel driver. In there click the tab for the driver, then click disable and wait, then enable. Wow, the audio started to work then
Hope that helps someone else also.
Michael
All Gateway notebooks (I didn’t check the desktops) that come with Vista pre-installed do not have all the audio properties that every other brand of laptop currently offers. In the sound window, there is a recording tab. I clicked on that, and expected to see “mic”, “cd”, “line-in”, and a “stereo mix” or “wave out” option available. The gateway notebooks, every one of them, only had the “mic” and “cd” options. So if you’re a musician like me, and want to record sounds that your laptop generate, or record podcasts, streams, etc., you should STAY AWAY FROM GATEWAY COMPUTERS! I called Gateway, Sigma Tel, Microsof, and EMU (EMU was the most helpful, imagine that) and they said that there is no update for their soundcards. $1,200 for a computer for the express purpose of utilizing that feature, and it doesn’t exist.
Ryan,
I had no problem finding the proper drivers for Gateway computers. If you follow the link in the Update 2/8/07 you will find a link to the drivers. It took all of 5 minutes to locate all the links in the Update, so I’m sure that the drivers you need are there.
Tech Support for any PC manufacturer is not the greatest and is outsourced offshore, so don’t expect anything but someone reading a script. Also, if you download and update the drivers you will find an advanced setting that will show the things that you are looking for.
Ray
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I’ve got Sigmatel 92xx through my Intel DG965WHMKR motherboard. I’m trying to use optical out to my digital marantz receiver. When I was using MCE2005, it would allow me to output in 5.1 at all times, but now it only allows me to run at 5.1 when playing a DVD. I can’t find any way to change this. Is it possible?
i have a dq965gf motherboard and vista is not recognizing the high def audio and i get no sound it happened after bios update. the chipset and new audio drivers from intel won’t take any suggestions?
I have a gateway mt3705 and it came with Vista Home Premium and I downgraded to XP Professional and I cant find a SIGMATEL sound driver that works anywhere. My gateway discs dont even have them. Can anyone please help?
i have a new window vista and i have a sigma tel high deffination codec souncards on my mother bord .is it possible that it is not operate a inspire creative 5300 5.1 model home theater system? or other wise i want to purchase a new soundcard for this thater system
I have Fujitsu N6010 and windows vista basic.
windows could not find Sigmatel driver for it but SigmaTel STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver version:6.10.5405_V73 worked after I installed it twice