Sound Issue Windows 7 on iMac mid-2007

I am having trouble getting my audio to work on Windows 7 on my mid-2007 20" iMac.  I do not have the drivers for this.  I had Windows 7 installed by a friend of mine and I did not notice the audio was not working till today.  Does anyone know where to get the drivers for this?

apetersell wrote:
Does anyone know where to get the drivers for this?
Does anyone know how to search Google?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=boot+camp+drivers

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