Cannot get sound in Windows 7 - No audio devices are installed

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Published on 2010-06-12T13:21:58Z Indexed on 2010/06/12 13:24 UTC
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Just installed Windows 7. After install everything was working fine until i noticed that i had no sound.

It is a AMD Athlon x64 Dual

Sound works in XP, has these sound drivers Yamaha DS1 WDM HD Audio Render

I tried finding the above drivers, but no luck.

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