No sound at all from windowsXP SP3

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steve oates

I'm using WinXP professional SP3 and have suddenly lost all sound, even
music CD's wont produce sounds. (If I boot into Linux on another disk
then the sound is working so the hardware is ok.)
If I go into ControlPanel\SoundsAndAudioDevices The "volume" section
says No Audio Device. The "Audio/SoundPlayback" section says
DefaultDevice-No Playback Devices, and is grayed out so I can't select
one. The "Hardware" section shows my device 'RealTek AC'97" and under
device properties says that the device is working properly. However the
Apply button is grayed out so that I can't select it.
Anyone got any idea how to fix it.
 
steve said:
I'm using WinXP professional SP3 and have suddenly lost all sound,
even music CD's wont produce sounds. (If I boot into Linux on
another disk then the sound is working so the hardware is ok.)
If I go into ControlPanel\SoundsAndAudioDevices The "volume" section
says No Audio Device. The "Audio/SoundPlayback" section says
DefaultDevice-No Playback Devices, and is grayed out so I can't
select one. The "Hardware" section shows my device 'RealTek AC'97"
and under device properties says that the device is working
properly. However the Apply button is grayed out so that I can't
select it. Anyone got any idea how to fix it.
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Download and install the latest drivers from the manufacturers' support web
page.
 
Shenan said:
Download and install the latest drivers from the manufacturers' support web
page.
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I've tried that, still not working. Device manager shows no problems or
conflicts with the driver.
 
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