Tecra A9 and BIOS update - No sound with Win 7

Hi,
I installed Windows 7 of an Tecra A9 Laptop and everything works fine except the sound. The sound card driver for Windows 7 is already installed. The Speakers as well as the microphone is detected. While playing music, under sound devices the green bar beneath the speakers raises up and down but I can not hear anything.
I read that the BIOS update may help but it do not work under Windows 7 or with a Windows XP Live CD or in Windows XP Mode for Windows 7.
I do not want to reinstall Windows XP.
Do anybody know how to get the sound working correctly?

Even with headphones, I had no sound.
I already checked all sound settings serveral times, nothing is muted and all is as loud as possible.
I can't install the BIOS update because I installed WIndows 7 before. Thus, I don't know if it would work. However, it is the only solution I found and maybe it works.
Is there no other way to update the BIOS? I mean I can start the BIOS update(P0054v210.exe), the extraction of the files works but after that I got the message: 'The Computer is not supported'. I noticed that there are Laptop models for which other procedures for updating the BIOS exists. Could anyone of them also work for Tecra A9?
Has anybody an idea what the cause of the sound problem could be?
Thanks.

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