No sound My pc operating system is window xp home edition. I have no sound card on board. When I check device manager it list legacy audio and some other audio device. when I play windows media player 11, it state no sound drive found. where can I get one. Dell does not have it. I have a Optiplex 270, intel single processor. Please help, thank you

cheak for ur driver, update sound driver, download real tech AC97, other clean up ur registry keys, download reginout that may help u

You also need the main board drivers.

Sounds like you need an audio driver if there's indeed a sound card or on-board audio device present. Will need the make and model of your PC to help locating a driver. Also, have you checked your "Device Manager", does it have any devices with a yellow exclamation mark?

First check your audio device in the device manager, and then go through all the sound settings in the control panel.
Here is how: http://www.pcauthorities.com/windows-xp/how-to-troubleshoot-sound-problems-in-windows-xp

hi, you need to go into your device manager and just disable the AC 97 sound card, them go to the control panel and get into sound options, and selectthe sound blaster as your default sound card o primary device .

Are you certain you have no audio device in the PC? Have you checked the Bios to see if onboard sound is available?

In case there is a device, but it is not working, maybe this can help:
http://www.pcauthorities.com/windows-xp/how-to-troubleshoot-sound-problems-in-windows-xp

Jules

You have to reinstall your audio driver. Answers to your questions: 1. You can locate it in your Device Manager. Locate and expand Sound,video and game controllers. 2. You don't have to delete legacy drivers because reinstalling your audio driver will update it. Right click your audio software the one you found in the Device Manager and update it. It will find your installation cd of your system drivers. Else, manually install the audio driver.

*Drop me a comment if you still have questions. Your vote will be highly appreciated. Hope this helps you.

Please check in the DeviceManager of WinXp for the exact sound device under  Sound Video and game controllers tab.After that goto driverguide.com and download the vista driver for that sound card.

BrendanG21, I had the same problem this morning. My sound actually quit in the middle of listening to music. Simply restart your computer (it may take a couple tries). If it's saying you have no audio device installed, but everything looks normal when you go into device manager, it's probably the same problem and this should work.

Running Windows XP
Dell B130 laptop
Sound devices listed under my device manager:
Audio Codecs
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices
Media Control Devices
SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC
Video Codecs

Right Click, My Computer icon, click Manage, a window opens up, called Computer Management window. click Device Manager, and check on the right hand side of the window if there is any yellow exclamation mark, or a red X.

Tell me this much, and ill guide you to solve this problem

Thanks

RahUL_Hunk