M9700 Sound Problem W/Vista Problem. Also Enable SLI M9700 W/Vista!!!

After installing the soundmax drivers for vista that you get from Alienware's website and then restarting after the install, the system boots up as normal and then before going to the desktop it shows a box With a white X in a round red circle saying No ADI drivers is installed anthen after clicking the ok it goes to the desktop. I have sound and all but when I click on the soundmax controll panel it only shows the master sound controll and the mic. In xp it showed all the speackers like front, back, subwoofer, pc beep, ect and also shown an equalizer and all the bells and whistles. Why is it not showing up in vista? If there are better drivers/software out there that actually work, where can I get them.

As a side note, and probably already known by many (i don't know), but I used the M9750 drivers for video and am able to use SLI in full functionality woohoo!!! 3dmark2006 scores from NONSLI to the M9750 difference shows me that it does in fact work! There was a little blib at first were the SLI would kick off automatically but found that if you uninstall the original drivers, restart, use driver sweeper, then restart again, then install the M9750 drivers, then everything works like a charm. people probably gonna slap me and say am wrong but it worked for me. SLI w/Vista on M9700 = in my book!

I guess noone has heard of this audio problem? No one out there has a similar problem?

I have the 256mb cards so didn't expect much from them and vista is a ram hog! but got around 4,800 and something with these drivers. In xp with stock drivers and 3dmark 06 was a little over 5,000 so I know it must be working in sli because it is soo close to what i got in xp but since vista is stealing my ram and some cpu it is hitting marks lower than what I want it to be hitting. I need to find a way to tweek vista more so it isn't taking so much performance. I tried to use 3dmark05 with this and got to the cpu test and it got halfway through but screen went black. wonder if it is 3dmark05 fult because 06 worked fine.

anyone know about the sound problem that I am having?

i don't have motherboard drivers and neither does the download drivers section on alienware. if you could point me to were i could get them or host them, that would be awesome!

the support disc I have is from when they didn't offer vista, so all the drivers are for xp. I have tried useing xp drivers before and it made matters worse so stuck with vista ones that alienware has posted on thier support area. There are no chipset drivers for vista for the M9700 listed on their site, so I guess I am S.O.L. unless they are able to send me a new support disc for vista. which I highly doupt they would send for free.

errr alienware refuses to give me a suport disk. They say all the drivers are on myhive. BULL $HIT!!! They do not have the chipset drivers nor cpu drivers for vista on myhive or drivers download area. They said that they do not know why I am getting that messege when I install the drivers. This is nutts! Please if there is someone out there that has a support disk for the m9700 running vista, rip the thing and let me download it, please!

I don't get this, all other drivers work fine when I install them except for the sound. If I put xp on, everything runs great, put vista on and I get crappy sound and it don't want to install right. It has got to do with the chipset, but alienware says they don't have chipset drivers for vista.

They should have called this model the Area-51 Conspiracy. Everytime I have asked them about it, they said that they had no clue. Then they promise SLI with vista on this machine and then try to blame nvidia for the lack of drivers. It is weird that they would have SLI working in vista on the 9750 and the drivers work for the m9700, why don't they put that on the driver downloads of 9700? I think am going to stick with basic laptops from other places and use desktop as a high end system. when i first recieved this system they forgot to put the SLI cable on the cards (didn't even have it, had to get a new one), didn't have the cable connector for the tv, the media controll buttons (at the top of the keyboard) was disconnected from the main board (couldn't turn it on and had to take it appart to find out), and now this (poor support for vista). Pretty soon I am going to get very irate with them. oh and get this, they were about to upgrade the graphics cards but decided not to so they could have them for thier m9750. what scammers! (that info was from the mouth of a tech support). Then they told me they were dropping the blueray because of "power issues" if we wanted to get that drive instead of a seccond hard drive, then that is our option but they took that away as well. since dell bought them out, they are getting very greedy and support has gone way down on the mobile line. what is the deal of them taking out the lower end laptop for people who just want a laptop? ERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

sorry for venting, just been a rolling ball of wanting to punch the owners of alienware in the face.