No Sound Lenovo 3000 C200

[Al7mm]

My home laptop pc crashed a couple of weeks back....I had Windows XP reloaded....I have email, Internet Explorer , My Documents, Photos etc but I cannot get my sound to work, even researching in detail the Lenovo website...

Any assistance to rectify would be much appreciated. It appears that I have NO sound device ? !....

Thx Al

[buddinggeek]

Go to device manager and look for any yellow exclamation marks for any device.Your sound device might be present but drivers might have not been installed

[Al7mm]

On my pc Control Panel I went to Sounds and Audio Devices Prooperties and it reads..." No Audio Device " ?

Now what do I do ?

Thanks Saradhi for your assistance.

Regards Al

[buddinggeek]

Go through this link.Make sure you open it in IE. 

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/no_sound

Its an automated troubleshooting mechanism for audio device problems in windows xp.Check out if it helps.

[Al7mm]

Tried the link that you recommended from IE. Ran it and here is what came up from troubleshooter :

Issues Found                                            Fix Status                                                   

Check Audio Device                               Not fixed

Any other ideas ?

Thx Al

[Al7mm]

Hi there,

Can you think of anything else I can try to get my sound functioning ? ...

Thank you

Al

[MrPeter1985 Guru]

Have you installed this driver? http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-66525 Even running it after it extracts?

[Al7mm · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your help mrpeter1985 , my sound now works. I already had downloaded Realtek Audio Driver on my C drive a week ago....but for some reason at the AdDrvLdr.EXE path the device driver wizard was not launched....I launched it and when it finished it read " The Application Failed to initialize ".

Then I restart & it works...go figure...I am so happy now.

Regards Al