Sound Obliteration - help! Drivers or what?

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>-----Original Message-----
>A couple of days ago I had a big crash (my 2nd in two
>weeks, the first lost me my video but I recovered it
with
>a reinstall). This 2nd was a Blue Screen equivalent.
>Ahen I reinstalled, I lost all my data and was glad of
my
>backups, but I had no sound. I've used the help and
>support thingy, and nothing works, Windows keeps asking
>me questions about my audio device. I have no idea what
>that is and nothing I see in the device manager seems to
>fit the bill; I've looked at properties on everything
and
>as I don't know what my sound card is I have no idea
>which devide driver to download. Device Manager tells
me
>I have:"Audio Codecs","legacy Audio Drivers", "Legacy
>Video Capture Devices", "Media Control Devices","MPU-401
>Compatible MIDI Device","Standard Game Port", "Video
>Codecs", and that's all I know. If anyone can sugest
>what my sound card is/where to get the drivers/another
>simple solution to the problem, I'd be most grateful!
>
>I was a big fan of XP, but now I'm not so sure - even
the
>2 reinstalls I had to do didn't recover this one!
>
>pammi
>.
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