Recently had computer re booted with xp. have no sound coming through at all. any ideas?

Sounds like the HAL.DLL problem that I have with my Aspire One.
Try booting off a genuine Windows XP disc and choosing the 'recovery console' option. At the command line, type 'CHKDSK C:' and press Enter. If you're lucky, that will do the trick.

1)Check whether sound is enabled in bios.

2)Install Latest drivers from support.dell.com

3) Boot From the ResourceCD to Run Dell Diagnostics

1. Insert the ResourceCD in the optical drive, and restart the computer.

2. Tap the <F12> key during startup until the One Time Boot menu appears.
Note: If the One Time Boot menu does not appear, restart the computer and try again.

3. Press the <Down Arrow> to highlight Boot from CD, and press <Enter>.
4. In the ResourceCD menu, select Run the 32 Bit Dell Diagnostics, and press <Enter>.
5. The Dell Diagnostics screen appears.

Run sound test

If you want to try booting from safe mode, start the machine and press F8 until you get a boot menu, but you getting the 'Error Loading OS' message sort of suggests your relative may have wiped the harddrive before handing the machine off to you, which would mean there will be nothing there to recover from.
Sounds as if the PC is set to boot from the harddrive, so your easiest fix would be to get into the bios settings at startup and set your 'boot order' to read from your optical drive (cd or DVD) first- Put YOUR copy of XP in and away you go!
Another option would be to go to bootdisks,com and download a Win'98 boot floppy image with CD-Rom drivers, & unzip the image to a 3.5 floppy, but that's the long way around.

i tell you m idea....first, maybe there is no operating system like windows or etc...second maybe your hard disk is not detecting or its damage,third, check the bios setup for the drives..it can help to solve the problem

nothing, the computer just restart itself then at first nothing show up and no beep the keyboard has no power sound but i can open close the cd rom,now it boot up but with cmos error and the ddr speed get lwer from 333 to 266 and it boot just up to the boot from cd press any key part and then it hangs it did'nt boot the window xp

just take the windows xp cd boot through CD drive and repair windows xp or else format full c drive and install freshly

try their support page at http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T-Series&model=T3410 and download the latest drivers

Does your computer make the beeping sounds on boot up. If so, this means that a drive is corrupt and it's not loading the system driver files or is not seeing your hardware to boot up..

Are you running windows xp?

Have you tried running a system repair using your windows xp cd?
That works by putting in your xp cd...booting to the cd....the first window you come too will ask you the basic, agree to terms, press f8 to agree...then to the next screen.

There it will have 2 options...install a fresh copy of windows
Repair a version of windows...choose repair

Allow the repair to finish...and restart....if the repair was successful, your computer will restart normally...

Let me know if this works.....and how many beeps you are getting

~~Jasta~~

Install the audio drivers for XP...
You should be able to find them on the support site for HP

windows xp cannot be installed on a system with pre loaded vista . because the boot loader of xp is older than vista as it cannot create boot loader . the order of installing operating systems is from LOWER 2 HIGHER ie XP to VISTA . first of all u nedd to format drive containing vista and then try installing xp