We totally wiped out my computer and everything. reloaded windows xp on it, and now when we try to play any audio, it states that there is no audio drivers and we have no clue how to fix it. HCL Note Book ,Model LX INIFINITI POWERLITE 9100 TR, Required Conextant Audio Driver

Go to manufacturer's website, download audio driver for your OS.

Ok if you are a complete novice like you say it may be a little hard to explain everything on here. Your heading say you need help loading windows xp. While the body says you need help cleaning it out and reloading it. It has been a while since I loaded windows xp on my computer but it came after losing a hard drive. I seems like I just put in the new hard drive and put the windows installation cd and when I started it, it just went through the steps of installation. However if you have a working computer and you want to clean it up, you may want to save some files off your computer before you just wipe it out. You should make a recovery cd, you can go through help menus to do this just type in "recovery cd". You can format your drive, go to programs, accessories, command prompt. If you open that up it looks like the old dos system, if you type in "format c:\" then enter it will wipe everything off of your hard drive. So my suggestion is this: find a friend/ neighbor that is a little computer savvy and ask for some help. It may be as simple as deleting your temporary internet files and cookies to get you running faster, which I think is what you are really after. Now that I've written a book I hope this helps. Please rate my answer so I get points for it.

Backup all your files (E-mail, address book, music, license-keys for purchased software),
writing either to DVD-recordable disks, to an USB memory-stick, or to an external disk-drive.

Then, reinstall Windows, "wiping" everything from your disk-drive.
Run "Windows Update" (repeatedly) to get all the latest security-updates.
Reinstall anti-virus software.
Reload your files.
Reinstall the purchased software.
Reinstall the free software (Adobe Reader? WinAmp?).

go to control panel... system... device manager and check that there isnt any ! in the audio devices. If you do find one then you need to install the drivers to your sound card.

try running a microsoft update in custom mode and see if it finds any needed device drivers for your system

The Gateway GT5220 has an AMD Athlon 64 processor. It has been documented that Windows XP SP3 doesn't play well with some AMD CPUs. I'm pretty sure this is one of them. I would suggest attempting a system recovery using a restore point on a date BEFORE you installed SP3. If that doesn't work, you might consider recovery using the original Gateway Restore CD. It will likely wipe the system, but that might be the only choice.

I would NOT start with the total reload option. We have a couple others before you get there, so try the restore point and then let me know the results. We'll go from there...
Regards,
Char1ieJ

you can just download the driver of your sound card from www.driverguide.com or the companys own website the driver number orr name shoud be mentioned on its hardware

driver

Installing only audio drivers will give you error "DRIVER INSTALLATION FAILED. COULD NOT FIND MEDIA DEVICE FOR THIS DRIVER" .so to solve this problem first you have to download microsoft universal audio driver and then install audio drivers
Audio Drivers
link 1 :microsoft universal audio
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32646.exe
link 2 :conexant high definition audio
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp36001-36500/sp36090.exe
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