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Acer 1410 (No Audio Devices Are Installed)
Hello,
I have an Acer Aspire One AS1410 laptop, which I upgraded to a retail version of Windows 7 Ultimate. For many months, everything worked great.
About a week ago, I installed some updates that Microsoft pushed out. After those updates finished installing, my audio device was no longer recognized by my machine. Specifically, when I try to turn on the volume, I get a message stating "No Audio Devices Are Installed." Similarly, I cannot find any audio devices through the control panel or through Start->Run->msinfo32.
I first tried downloading the latest drivers from Acer's site and installing them. That did not correct the problem (and I've tried several times). I then tried restoring the system to an earlier date when everything was fine, and that too has not solved anything.
I have read in other threads about changing some settings in the BIOS, but I will admit that I am unclear on how to do this. Any additional hypotheses/theories would be greatly appreciated.
Acer's default reply is to pay for them to send me a new OS and reinstall that. I'm less than thrilled with the idea.
Cheers,
Bryce