I CAN'T HERE ANY SOUND AFTER I REFORMAT MY DESKTOP, WHAT WILL I DO?

Lock the computer by pressing the Win+L keys and press shift keys many times. Now is any sound coming from desktop ?

Go to www.dell.com/support and get the audio driver appropriate to your computer and your OS.

Thanks for visiting today.

Are you using Windows? If so, you can try the following link to fix the sound playback issue automatically.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/no_sound

Other options will be reinstall the sound driver come with the sound card or perform a system restore to the date the repairer fixed it. You can check the accessories and volumns to make sure those are working too. Did the repairer reformat the hard drive because of virus?

You can go to the reative website and give them a description of your device and usually they will have the drivers for you to download, usually free,,,,Hope this works...Darren

you frist uninstall the sound device and restart the pc.

Put *********** bord cd now automatically sound device will be installed.Restart the pc again check the sound

Hi,
If you have formatted your computer then the problem might be because the drivers for sound are not yet installed.
Please install the sound drivers and that should take care of the issue.
Right click on "My computer" --> Properties --> Hardware tab --> Device Manager
Under device manager, check the sound devices.. there might be a red cross (X) or Question mark (?) or a exclamation mark (!) indicating problem with the drivers .. just right click on the device and select update drivers and that should take care of it or if you have a sound driver CD/DVD, insert the same in the optical drive and install.

Let me know if that helps.

Regards,
Srinivas

I agree with Hector above. Please be a bit more specific to the problem.

Some possible solutions:

If you reformatted the system recently, there is a specific order to loading the drivers. If you don't follow that order, the sound won't work and you will need to reformat and load the drivers in the order below.

I had the same problem formatting 5 like systems and sound only worked on one of them. After countless reloads, I called Dell support who alerted me to this problem.

Here is the order:
1-desktop system software (optional)
2-Intel Chipset Software
3-Video Drivers
4-Sigmatel driver (or sound driver)
5-Network driver

Another issue could be that someone muted your speakers. If the following icon in the tray looks like this,

left click on it and this menu will appear:

Uncheck MUTE and click anywhere on the desktop.

If the icon isn't even there, that's for another topic, for another day.

no just put the cd/dvd in the drive and follow the instruction

 That the earlier owner didn't know his own password is a bit suspicious. It sounds as if you do need to reformat. I suggest finding a OS system, maybe on Ebay or Craigs List. 

check the device manager. make sure the soundcard drivers are installed.