thegauntlet

I am having the same issue. My laptop came with Vista installed and the speakers never worked. I went through a lot of tech support calls and no one at Dell could get things working. they gave me the option of sending it in but I didn't want to be withough it for 2 weeks. I rarely use speakers. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu as a dual boot option and the speakers worked just fine. So I am convinced this is a driver issue.