Installed Windows 7 on iMac. No sound.

How do I get the sound to work? Reinstall the drivers for the sound card? Update boot camp? The instructions are not very clear on updating your version of boot camp. Do I do it on the mac side or when I boot up Windows? Thanks in advance!
Clay

iMac uses Cirrus so you need to get the audio driver - yourself.
Mine uses RealTek - and don't know why Boot Camp does 80-90% but not a word or hint.
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Csound1 wrote:
You can't install Windows on your machine as it stands.
There is your answer, now stop stressing and move on without it.
Sure, good answers.
Apple doesn't want to = You can't
Apple doesn't let you = You shouldn't
Too bad i made it. So it is possible, even if you and apple said it's not.
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Me
For the specs it necessary 20-inch http://support.apple.com/kb/SP28
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