
I tried many things: disabling/re-enabling devices, uninstalling/reinstalling devices, reinstalling drivers, switching drivers, restarting services, changing BIOS settings, and rebooting many times along the way, all to no avail. Received on time, the SSD was installed in place of the original HDD without any real problem with the use of the ACRONIS cloning. The audio devices that showed up in Device Manager on the SSD were the same as on the HDD. I could even reboot and run off the old HDD and audio would work again, so I knew it wasn't a hardware issue. I had a red X over speaker icon in the system tray that said "No audio output device is installed". Everything worked when running off the SSD except audio. Not sure if you still are having problems, but I just had a similar issue after cloning my HDD to a new SSD. If you need any screenshots or additional information let me know, I will provide anything necessary. I just installed the HDD back and it boots and the audio works no problem, so it's not me ripping off the cable or anything, the problem is in software. I tried to update the chipset driver, but audio drivers already updated the chipset, and to a newer version than the standalone chipset driver. I have already googled this problem and tried everything from several sources. The audio icon in a tray is showing red circle with X in it and the popup says "No audio output device is installed".

The only problem I have encountered so far is that there is no audio.

The clone was done flawlessly - it boots and it boots fast. So I cloned my HDD (shows up in Device Manager as HGST HTS545032A7E3800 SCSI Disk Device) to my new SSD (Crucial BX500 480GB, MDL: CT480BX500SSD1, FW: M6CR022) using Acronis True Image for Crucial.
