No sound in Windows 7

I've finally got Windows 7 running on my computer, but I can't get sound working on it at all. It doesn't detect my sound card so I can't listen to any music or play games on it

Is there anything I can do to fix this or will I just have to wait to the full release?

First off, how did you get Windows 7?! lol

Secondly you should be able to use the DVD that came with your computer to install the driver for sound. There may be 1 or 2 DVD's, if there is more than 1, the drivers are usually on the 1st DVD. Just pop it in and it should give you 2 options. 1 is to reformat and 1 is to install drivers, you want that one, then just scroll through the list until you find your sound card driver and install. It should be that easy.

Hope this helps.

Your Vista drivers should work with 7... for me, they did

Thanks to both of you, I managed to get it working by running Windows Update and it got some newer drivers for my onboard sound card that worked.

WindowsSe7en, I'm using the pre-beta build that everyone seems to have

Well why don't I have this pre-beta build! lol

im using virtual pc to play with windows 7 and cant gat any sound any suggestions?

Have you used Windows Update to scan for drivers? (You'll need to set up the network connection to allow internet access through the host PC). That did the trick for most people

I had the same problem using Virtual PC - solution was to restart the "Multimedia Class Scheduler" service (Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services).

But I found other problems with playing multimedia files as per posting here.

i've tried to have windows update my drivers. and i even have the cd that came with my mb. but.... this cd only works with xp and vista and windows 7 will not recongise my sound card.... even after i install these drivers. and i tried your multimedia class scheduler and no luck ? so i dont know if this a compatibility issue with win7 or if i just dont have a clue ? im doing.

any more sugestions ?

Hello!
I have installed Windows 7 on my desktop computer [AMD CPU 1800 MHz, 1 gb RAM, onboard SIS video card with 128 shared RAM] and everything worked good, but not the sound. My computer has a ECS motherboard with onboard sound card. The Realtek sound driver I used for xp wasn't accepted by Windows 7. I tried to find a driver on the motherboard producer site, but wasn't any new. So I downloaded from www.download.cnet.com Realtek High Definition Audio Codec (Windows Vista / Windows 7) R2.31 (08/24/2009) and installed; during installation I got a message that the driver isn't compatible, but iI still installed. After that, I noticed I had no sound. I verified with Device Manager if the driver is installed and if the sound card is recognized, and everithing was ok, but I had no sound. I run dxdiag, and I used Help, so I ended to Sounds [also you can get to Sounds by Start / Control Panel / Sounds. On the Playback tab were Speakers and below Realtek Digital Output. Speakers was the default device, and I set Realtek Digital Output as default device... and, voila... I've got the sound on my computer.
Hope this is useful to someone else.
Good luck