You need to say what model laptop you have and what audio adaptor it has.
XP drivers will not help. If the manufacturer's website does not have Vista
drivers for your laptop then Vista is not supported on it and you should use
your restore cd to return to your previous OS.
"Visceral" <Visceral@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello.
>
> I have a laptop with Vista on it. It is a hand-me-down from another in my
> family. When I got it, I naturally wanted a clean slate, so I wiped the
> hard
> drive and reinstalled everything. Ever since, I have been getting no
> sound
> out of either the speakers or the headphone jack, and their is this little
> red light shining out of the headphone jack. I have reinstalled all my
> drivers, to some success. While the red light went away, there was still
> no
> sound, and then some of my programs did not work. I therefore restored it
> back to before I reinstalled the drivers. I have read that the light
> probably has something to do with the SPDIF outlet, so I disabled that
> device. However, the red light remains. I have done everything I can
> think
> of to fix this computer, but none of it works! Does anyone know of
> anything
> that I have not already tried?
>
> -Thanks