Sound Driver For Windows Vista Home Basic

Realtek Audio Driver For Windows 7 64 Bit

Hi,I am so hoping someone can help me as I have been trying to find a resolution for this for over 6 months now:(I am running a Dell Inspiron 530 with Vista Home Basic, SP1 & SP2 installed. All security updates also installed and several months ago I suddenly lost all of my sound.I have updated my drivers from the manufactures website (Dell & Realtek), uninstalled them, reinstalled them.everything.and I still get no sound. Hi XP Rocks,Thanks for looking that link up! I actualy came across that same link in my searches and tried the suggestions there and none of them worked either. The question I now have is this - The most current driver that is recommended for Realtek, does it nowrequire speakers that are 'powered'? I am using the same old sepakers that came with my original Dell computer that was purchased sometime in 02 or 03 and I wonder if Microsoft and Realtek have advanced the drivers and the old speakers do not have enoughpower to play the sound now.

I am going to buy some new ones and see how they do and will post when I find outl.THANKS!