Installation Error, no Sound Device!!

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Hi All,

I had recently performed a 'clean installation' on Windows XP pack 2 on my 'backup' laptop. The process is not unfamiliar to me since a similar boot from the original CD onto a new partition was done a year ago (on a different machine). All in all everything went well except....

I cannot find any signs of a 'Sound Device' anywhere. There is no 'volume icon', nor a device under a 'Sound, Speech and Audio Devices' tab. So far I have been trying to find the appropriate bits related to the problem on the CD without any luck. I do suppose this is something to do with a basic drive since I had downloaded some...and hence my plea!

Please, has anyone got a solution to this? :(

Many thanks
 
Are your sound devices turned on in CMOS,or bios settings.Most PC's enter setup on startup by using the DEL key.
 
From the Control Panel get to Device Manager and see if everthing is working .

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Thank you, Jim451 and Abarbarian,

I have indeed checked the Device Manager and everything appears to be working well there (but still 'No Audio Device' under Contral Panel } S&A Devices).

In terms of BIOS or CMOS is the latter. Frankly speaking cannot recall if I did anything there or not, sorry! Is there an easy way back to check the settings in CMOS witout re-doing the installation?

Many thanks :)
 
Hitting "Del" or "F8" when you switch the pc on , thats as soon as you have hit the power on button , will usually get you into the bios and you can see what the settings are like . Change them or leave them and carry on .

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Thanks Abarbarian, it is 'F8'. I have been there a couple of times before, it all looked ok to me. Althought feel that I am missing something here...:o


I shall keep looking if not, I guess back to the drawing board!

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Can you not get this by going from Control Panel ?????????? :confused:
 

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Thanks and no, I cannot!! What a drag...


Where you have 'Realtek AC97..' under Volume, I get 'No Audio Device' (very strange indeed) The rest is not even highlighted (i.e. Device Volume and Speaker Settings) and thus none of the settings can be altered.

I am absolutely flabbergasted...and :confused:
 
Thanks Abarbarian. The good news is that after a few hours of research and a numerous attempts, I got the SOUND DEVICE back and working again!! Admittedly, there are many posts regarding the exact problem occurring after a clean installation of XP P2 (which I thought it was a little worrying) and all cover machines from Dell, HP, Vaio and a few others.


The best result I got was from downloading a chipset from
http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php and after a reboot downloading an appropriate sound driver from the manufacture's site, and bingo...

Nonetheless, many thanks to you all for the interest and support.

p.s. Some guys were very keen on downloading VINYL AUDIO but yet again, I guess it depends on how deep the damage is...
 
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