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"No Audio Output Device Is Installed", but I HAVE installed one?
Hi, I'm pretty desperate for help with this issue, I've been searching on Google for the last three and a half hours for a solution but came up with nothing, so I thought I'd post here to see if anyone can tell me what's up.
I turned on my laptop today to find that there was a little red 'x' over the audio symbol, and upon further inspection it turned out that there was no audio driver installed. I wasn't very bothered about it at first, because after a Windows update once I had to reinstall it, and everything ran smoothly from there because I just reinstalled the driver which originally came with the laptop.
Now, this is the problem. I tried installing the driver, and the installation seemed to go fine, I was prompted to restart, did so, but when I logged in after the reboot, I was still getting the "No Audio Output Device Is Installed" error. I searched around, tried a different Realtek HD driver. Same result. Tried again with a different driver, no luck. Wax on, wax off.
I can't figure out why it's happening, but maybe someone here can?
For reference, my Laptop's a Sony Vaio VPCCW1S1E, running Windows 7 Home Premium , and I have tried to install the drivers available from Sony for this laptop, but they don't work either :/
Thanks!