No sound i had something go wrong with my comp i had to have a new power supply and hard drive fitted when my xp home was put back on i cant find my sound drivers

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Go to your motherboard manufacturers website if it is a PC that you put together and download the audio driver for the model that you have. Or, if the PC that you bought is prebuilt by companies such as DELL, HP, etc... then there should be a sticker on your PC that says "service tag". You can then go to their website and their should be a download section where you can enter the service tag and it will give you the link to download the driver Or, you can run windows automatic update and it should find the audio driver for you.

Posted on Aug 17, 2007

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