i've just installed a new harddrive into my laptop which ment a complete reinstallation of xp home edition, now i've been able to get every thing up and running with driver updates apart from the sound, i used driver genius to find out what i needed (REAL TEK AC97 AUDIO FOR VIA (R) AUDIO CONTROL) but even after been installed there was still no sound , when i use media player 10 i get Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly, any help would be great thanks, below is my Belarc computer profile summary.

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Tiny Computers 8355H 5a
Enclosure Type: Portable
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
800 megahertz AMD Athlon 64 Board: MiTAC 5a
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Insyde Software R1.08 06/08/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
42.59 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
33.41 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

FREECOM_ DVD+/-RW16H9 USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SN-S082D [CD-ROM drive]

SAMSUNG MP0804H [Hard drive] (80.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S042J10L380104, rev YS200-04, SMART Status: Healthy 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DRAM Slot 0' has 2047 MB
Slot 'DRAM Slot 1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DRAM Slot 2' has 4080 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 42.59 GB 33.41 GB free

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local user accounts last logon
rob 23/10/2006 21:01:02 (admin)
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Controllers Display
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571 ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
Digital Flat Panel (1024x768) [Monitor] (19.7"vis)
Generic Television [Monitor]
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Generic CardBus Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller (3x)
VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller Realtek AC97 Audio for VIA (R) Audio Controller
Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
Communications Other Devices
Smart Link 56K Voice Modem


1394 Net Adapter
IP Address: 83.100.198.104 / 32
Gateway: 83.100.198.104
Physical Address: 00:53:45:00:00:00
SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP
VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter
Dhcp Server: none responded
Physical Address: 00:400:59:52:A2

Networking Dns Servers: 212.50.160.100
213.249.130.100
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Microsoft AC Adapter
Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
USB Human Interface Device
IrDA Fast Infrared Port
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
SpeedTouch 330 ADSL Modem
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (4x)
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try this: ftp://152.104.238.194/pc/audio/WDM_A393.zip

you need to extract (un-zip) it and then double click the .exe file

you will then need to restart your computer

Hope this helps

Mike

gave that ago mate but got same problem, also when i look at the hardware in the sound and audio devices properties for the REALTEK AC97 it says location: PCI bus 0,device 17, function 5 , then Device status: this device cannot start (code 10), also the location of the Audio codecs, legacy audio drivers, media control devices, legacy video capture devices and video codecs is unknown yet the device status all say are working properly.

it is a bit hard to find your driver as tiny is out of buisness but try this:

http://mtc.mitacservice.com/visitor/...?fid=111577773

Hope it works
Mike

thanks mate, that 1 was better cos now its saying the device is working properly but still no sound , in the sounds and audio devices properties/volume its still saying no audio device, and it still can not find the location of the other codecs and devices listed in sound and audio hardware but still says they r working properly (my MIDI music playback now has a default device were the others havn't yet).

if you were here madmike i would give u a bloody big kiss or at least get the wife too lol, i didn't uninstall the previous drivers i had tried, did that and reinstalled the last 1 u recommended , did a bit of tinkering with the default devices and BINGO , i never thought i would enjoy the little beeps and buzzes so much, THANKS MATE

lol glad you got it sorted

Mike