No sound after doing clean install of XP. Dev mgr says "can't start device - 10" situation: pc -device mgr shows hardware ok - yellow with ! -in ctl panel / sound devices device volume is greyed out -installed the ac 97 driver / uninstalled / re-booted / reinstalled.. etc, etc, etc -volume does not appear in sys tray -installed win media player 11 ... re-booted -I cant tell actual board model...spec manual says it's ac 97 digital audio controller integrated and ac 97 2-channel audio codec on board **did NOT re-set sound default in BIOS

How about some details? Make/model of board? What caused you to reformat? Where did you get the sound drivers? Did you install the motherboard chipset drivers?

Abit Model i850-W83627HF Product Name 6A69SA1B North Bridge Intel i850 Revision A2 South Bridge Intel 82801BA (ICH2) Revision A2 CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Cpu Socket Socket 478 mPGA BIOS Vendor Award Software International, Inc. What caused you to reformat? ***HD crash Where did you get the sound drivers? ***at the cmedia website Did you install the motherboard chipset drivers? ***don't know what this is - probably not, then