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Sound windows xp dimension 3000

Installed windows xp sp2 on a dell inspiron 3000. No sound. Installed driver from dell website, R94481. No sound.

Device manager does not show any conflicts.

Any ideas?

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  • Anonymous Oct 15, 2008

    no sound

  • Anonymous Nov 01, 2008

    Replaced hardrive in a Dimension 3000, installed Windows XP
    Professional and have no sound. I go to control panel and the Sounds
    and Audio devices are grayed out saying No audio device installed. I
    tried to install the driver from Dell and I receive a message during
    setup that the Audio driver does not suport your computer hardware.
    There is only one driver and it is the R94481.exe. I did a diagnostics
    and the sound passed the test for the 8 tones. Other than that, I have
    no sound.

  • Anonymous Mar 24, 2014

    I have installed windows XP SP3 and download Driver from Dell website by their model no. but when i run stup file of video driver the error show " The required hardware not found "

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I had same problem with my Inspiron 3000. I went into the bios at startup (press F2 ) and changed the audio settings to "auto" Problem solved, works great

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Replaced hardrive in a Dimension 3000, installed Windows XP Professional and have no sound. I go to control panel and the Sounds and Audio devices are grayed out saying No audio device installed. I tried to install the driver from Dell and I receive a message during setup that the Audio driver does not suport your computer hardware. There is only one driver and it is the R94481.exe. I did a diagnostics and the sound passed the test for the 8 tones. Other than that, I have no sound.

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Hi if your motherboard have you install sound properly....Or not your sound driver you Go to driver Zone.com then download it

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Quite likely, drivers for the audio controller is missing/not installed.

You did not give any info on the Operating System you installed and the sound card in question; Onboard or PCI Sound Card. I am assuming you have Windows XP or 2000 and using the builtin/onboard sound controller.

If this is correct, you will need to download and install ADI Onboard Sound Driver (Windows 2000/XP) - http://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R94481.EXE

Let me know how you get on

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