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i just installed a xp professional on my computer.. i've done it before with
my other computers.. and the sound worked perfect on those.. but when i was
all done insatllign it .. the sounds didn't work and i went to comtrol panel
and tried to install them but they said no hardware to be found?! what should
i do?
 
Go to the website of the sound card/computer manufacturer and get the
latest windows XP sound drivers.
 
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i just installed a xp professional on my computer.. i've done it
before with my other computers.. and the sound worked perfect on
those.. but when i was all done insatllign it .. the sounds didn't
work and i went to comtrol panel and tried to install them but they
said no hardware to be found?! what should i do?
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You must know what sound card you have. Look on your receipt/invoice for
the computer - ask the people you bought the system from, open it up and
look, etc.

There are applications out there that can identify what hardware you have,
but I think they all depend on a properly installed system - as I think they
pull the information from the registry. Perhaps they do not - so I will
recommend you try two different ones:

EVEREST Home Edition
http://www.lavalys.com/products/download.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=3

Belarc Advisor
http://belarc.com/free_download.html

Once you know what you have, what next? Go get the latest driver for your
hardware/OS from the manufacturer's web page. For example, let's say you
have an NVidia chipset video card or ATI video card, perhaps a Creative
Labs sound card or C-Media chipset sound card...

NVidia Video Card Drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

ATI Video Card Drivers
http://www.atitech.com/support/driver.html

Creative Labs Sound Device
http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

C-Media Sound Device
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_download_01.htm

Good luck!
 
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