Vista on iMac terrible sound

I've installed vista on a few 24" iMacs. The sound produced under vista is just terrible (metallic echo), on all of them. I've used the drivers delivered with OSX 10.5.0.
Are ther any better drivers or any settings that produce better audio?
btw. The sound under OS X is fine.

I have noticed that too. I think it sounds a little better if you go to Control Panel > Sound > Speakers > Advanced and set the Default Format to 24 bit, 192000 Hz. The default is 16 bit, 44100 Hz so that might something that made it sound bad. I took a screenshot of what I was doing at http://tinyurl.com/5mb4pp.
Hope this helps.

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‎06-15-2013 08:38 PM
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my laptop has
model number: HP Pavilion dv6500
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P/N number: GY132UA#ABC
SERvice tag: dv622ca
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‎06-15-2013 08:38 PM
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{Personal Information Removed}
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WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM SERVICE PACK 2
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