Sound no longer works on computer?

[hans030390]

Our second computer (Sony Vaio PCV-RX770) came with XP installed on it, and sound naturally worked as planned with it.

Later, being the moron that I was (trying to transfer files from it onto another computer), I accidentally dropped the harddrive from about a half-inch distance, and it stopped working.

So, I got a really old 4gb HD from our really old computer that had Ubuntu on it. I eventually formatted that and reinstalled the latest version of Ubuntu on it.

Sound worked for that as well.

We finally got a new HD for the computer, and I did a fresh install of XP pro (Not what the computer came with). The sound was not working when I started up the computer.

I figured it might be that the speakers were plugged into the wrong jack, but when I tried playing a file in WMP to test it, it gave me a sound device error of some sort.

I tried installing the sound drivers from Sony's website...still no sound.

What am I supposed to do to get sound?

 

[montag451]

Just asking, don't bite......

Is there any exclamation marks in device manager?

 

[hans030390]

Wow, I completely forgot to check that.

I do have 2 exclamation marks (under Other devices):

1. Multimedia Audio Controller
2. Unknown Device

Now what should I do? I've tried updating drivers, but I have no CD/files for the drivers, and it didn't find anything by searching. And the drivers from the Sony website still haven't helped.

 

[hans030390]

Update: Got the sound to work...the driver on Sony's website didn't work, so I looked up the SiS 7012 driver (what was listed with Sony's driver), and the first site I found had a driver that worked.