no sound, windows 2000pro, hp pavilion,new wd 80G hd

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I can't get any sound since I got a new 80G hd for my hp
pavillion ht856. I have a labtec powered sub with 2
speakers and it is connected correctly. It worked before.
I can't get any sound, be it cd, dvd,my music lib,windows
sounds...etc. I am using the built in sound card on the
mother board. In 'device manager'there are no problems
with the sound devices. Nothing is muted or turned down in
control panel. There is one question mark in 'other
devices'. It says there is no driver for the 'pci simple
communications controller'. I dwnlded 2 drivers from the
hp website( crystalaudiocodecCS4281 and
crystalaudiocodecCS4299) they didn't help. When I was there
(hp site) the 2 audio dwnlds stated that it wasn't
advised to run windows 2000 on an hp pavilion.
Be that as it may...I think everything will be cool if I
can find a steenking driver for this pci simple steenking
controller. I addition to the hp website, I have searched
all of the discs that would be pertinent(win 2000, hp
recovery...I guess that would be both discs then).
If any of this sounds familiar and/or solvable...help!
 
The problem you have with large manu. such as HP, Dell etc is that they make
have 'tweaked' installed hardware for their own purposes and as such a
hardware manu. driver may not function correctly.
You could try uninstalling the hardware, then reinstalling to see if that
works, but baring in mind the 'not reccomended msg' you might be advised to
buy a soundcard and disable the onboard sound in the bios.
David
 
You might try uninstalling the sound device from Device Manager, restarting
the computer, and let Windows detect the device and install the driver for
it again.

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You're probably gonna have to cripple the on-board sound and go with an
add-in sound card. They're pretty cheap nowadays.

HP's are pretty picky.
 
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