Sound wont work after Windows XP SP1 upgrade!

[yankee427]

I have just installed Windows XP SP1. The sound worked fine before the update. Now, the sound doesnt work at all. I tried to uninstall and then reinstall the sound drivers, but that did not work. I have a turtle beach santa cruz sound card. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try to get my sound back. This is a very annoying problem, and I have tried many things already to correct it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[chizow]

Try removing the hardware from device manager and then the drivers from add/remove. Then reboot, see if XP recognizes your card. If it does re-insall drivers normally.

Chiz

 

[yankee427]

I tried doing that and it found the hardware. I uninstalled the drivers and then rebooted and it found the hardware and asked for the drivers. I installed the drivers and did everything correctly, but the sound still doesnt work.

 

[Slogun]

Had the same problem two days after the SP1 download.
My card is a Soundblaster, but problem was fixed after an unistall and reinstall.

Make sure you have the latest drivers for that soundcard.

A drastic last step (well, short of a reformat), would be to do a system restore to prior to the SP1 and then start over from there.

 

[yankee427]

ok thanks slogan. I'll have to try uninstalling and then reinstalling drivers one more time. Hopefully that will fix it, because I really dont want to have to restore it back to before I had SP1.

 

[yankee427]

That did not work. Any last suggestions from anyone of what to try before I do system restore to get my sound back. I really dont want to have to do this since my computer is running faster now. The sound is the only thing I am having trouble with, and it is very annoying.
Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Viper96720]

You checked the sound control panel to make sure it's not muted or volume setting down?