TSGL: No sound

[Engineman1 at aol.com]

several days ago I bought a 20" flat panel monitor and install;ed it with  no 
problems. when I installed two applications that came with it,(one to rotate  
the picture and one to adjust the color) my system crashed. When I rebooted  
Windows barely functioned. Everything ran slowly and the device manager screen 
 was blank. I suspected malware so I ran AVG, Spybot, Kaspesky, McAfee and  
several others, only finding minor nuisance adware.
 I did an XP repair install from my CD. No sound. There was a yellow  mark 
next to audio devices in device manager  and when I tried  uninstall 
driver/reinstall driver the yellow mark disappeared but still no  sound.
 I went to the Compaq website and downloaded and installed the  recommended 
"ADI SoundMax AC97 Audio Driver for Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP". Still  no sound. 
In media player and in "sounds, speech and audio devices" I get the message  
"no audio device installed"
I did a repair install again from a different CD.  Still no luck. Both times 
when I was repair installing I got a message that it  was having a hard time 
finding two files: wmp.ocx and wmpcd.dll. I did a search  of my system and 
found both in system32. I tried replacing them from another  machine with similar 
characteristics but I don't know if the replacement  "took."
Still no sound, no audio device. Please  help.
Engineman
Operating System: Windows XP (sp 2)
Computer Make:  Compaq (6010)
Processor: 130 MHz amd
Memory: 732 MB
Screen Resolution:  1280 by 1024
Web Browser: Firefox

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