Windows Audio Service will not run (Vista Ultimate)

[jer_stud56]

I got a Dell XPS M1710 on Friday with Vista Business installed. I liked it, but wanted Ultimate for reasons of the Media Center so I can connect to my Xbox 360 so I upgraded. Anyways, since last night when I installed it, which worked flawlessly, well besides the audio.

I've tried using dell.com for the audio device drivers and tried google a few times now which is how I found this site. I cannot find a liable solution, and it's almost driving me insane. I've tried the dell support driver page which was of no real help. I tried both the Sigmatel Stac 92XX C-Major HD Audio driver and Creative Labs integrated sound blaster Audigy advanced hd audio driver on their page.

I've tried going to services and manual starting the "Windows Audio Service" and only get an error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

I was on the support website for sigmatel they told me to uninstall and reinstall the driver (which you for some reason cannot get off their website or partner) so I'm getting it again from Dell.com. I'll be back in a few seconds to say if it works or not...must restart.

Edit:
Running on...

Dell XPS M1710
Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit
2.00 GHz Duo core T7200
2 GB RAM
Sigmatel High Definition Audio CODEC verison 5.10.0.4995 (the one from the Dell.com website.)

[jer_stud56]

Yep just as I thought, did not help. The "Windows Audio Service" still is not starting. It is set to try again after a failed attempt twice.
Windows Audio Endpoint Builder will not start either. It gets Error 0x80070002: The system cannot find the file specified.

I'm stuck completely, and I'm very computer literate. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[jer_stud56]

still have yet to find a solution to this. Been googling for a few days now and still haven't found anything to fix. Anyone know why Windows Audio Service will not turn on?

[jer_stud56]

I FINALLY figured it out. I don't really know why though.
I randomly searched google for reinstall vista sigmatel.
I got a page of:
http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2007/02...manufacturers/
and went to
http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?...sta%20sigmatel
clicked Verify Operating System and Product Compatibility to find out which driver was for my computer ( R147073.EXE is for the M1710 )
it asked me to restart and i walked away for a minute. In the background I heard vista starting up. Finally I have sound again! Hope this helps anyone in the future having problems with Vista Ultimate and Sigmatel !

[moshiur]

Goto services start windows audio service. before that start "Windows Audio Endpoint Builder" service. Windows service is dependent in "Windows Audio Endpoint Builder"


Thanks ---
Moshiur