Miscellaneous laptop discussions forum: Dell Latitude D610 Audio Driver Missing in Windows 7

I installed the sound driver for Vista, on my Dell D610, and it seems to be working just fine.

Idk, my friend found it on his own, and he has the sigmatel audio card, and he said he used a driver from another dell model that ran vista to get it to work, but now he has Hackintosh OS X Leopard on it, and he likes it, so that ends his audio driver search.

I was running the evaluation build on a laptop of the same model, and it worked well. I recently upgraded to the full, professional version (acquired through the Computer Science Department at my school), and ran into this issue. I'm not sure if it's true all around, but I had to run the driver installer in XP compatibility mode.

dell laptop latitude d610, windows7,sound drivers not working at all

Dell doesn't officially support Vista or Windows 7 on this laptop. They provide a link to purchase a latptop that does. I upgraded to Windows 7 anyway. It found drivers for everything except the audio. I followed the tip from CNET and installed Dell driver R99254. I received an error during the installation, but my sound started working. I'm happy with Windows 7. Thanks CNET.

Hi!! Guy i hve a Dell latitude D610, i hve install Windows 7 on that machine bt after the installatiion complited bt the sound card and vga drivers are missing on windows 7. how could i do to get that drivers. pls help me that problem


Regards,
Njaule.

Thanks a lot.. you are life saver.

As was mentioned by a susbsequent poster, Dell doesnt officially support the D610 beyond the Windows XP operating system. The unit will run Vista and Windows 7 with limitations such as no Aero or DVD writing. The problem with video is that the Intel video chip doesnt support OS beyond XP. This chip is built into the Motherboard, so it's permanently attached and not replaceable.
Also I did mention in my original posting- download and run the installation for the AC97 driver with the administrator login. If you are unfamiliar with that procedure do a HELP search or web search for the procedure. It's simple, and allows you to do it with a higher priority than your regular login. With a little luck maybe your adminstrative login will allow you to load it, that is if someone didnt set it to prevent logins.

I go to dell.com and click on support, type in my SERVICE TAG and then see if there are drivers for those items.
Bob

try the winxp drivers, they worked fine for me. you can also try windows update. i have a d610 running win7ultimate 32 bit. everything runs fine including aero.

Found that I had to load the Sigma Tel C Major AC97 from Dell using the XP Compatability mode. Works well and Windows 7 Rocks!

i had the same problem and had no luck with vista 64 drivers
so i went to majorgeeks.com and downloaded ac97 drivers 95-97 cant remember but its the same one as came with my board if you have a different audio setup you can still probably find them there
its a good place for free software never got a virus from them in 5 years

Hi
I installed Win 7 on my Dell Latitude D610. It located all the drivers except for audio. Well, I discovered a solution that may work for many of you. Follow this path: Local Disk(C:)/Dell/Drivers/R99254/setup (the setup that's an application - double-click on it) This is the install that XP does automatically but Win 7 fails to do. I hope this helps!

need diver for d610 for window 7

I hit the issue of the sound driver when upgrading from Xp to Vista a few years ago. You have to use the XP driver for the sound driver, the one on the XP driver disc from Dell or download from Dell.com. The trick to it is to install the driver when using the administrator login with your laptop.When opening the driver file, Right click your mouse, click Properties, and click login in as administrator. Load the driver and it will work like a charm. The issue of video, as mentioned somewhere else in this thread is an unfortunate one, being that Intel chose not to upgrade its support to anything beyond XP, for the Video drivers. Your laptop will work OK with the XP driver on video too, but the Aero feature and ability to write video to a DVD-rw drive will be rejected when tried. You can still burn an ISO file to a DVD, but you cant burn videos to DVD's in Windows Media Player, a minor clitch. . The DVD-rw will still play a DVD though and record everything else, but no video disks. On intital restart, you resolution on the video will lokk weird, but you can reset your screen resolution and use you laptop like before....who needs Aero anyway! There may be a third party way around this, but Windows Vista and 7, which are kissing cousins, balks at the video thing..
Also if you're upgrading from Vista to 7, the upgrade should just load the drivers from Vista and use them OK.