need help getting my sound to work

Recently my sound wont work with music or anything but wow and there i cant have any control on how load it is what do i need to do?

im currently running microsoft windows xp media center edition version 2002
service pack 2
Gateway MX6445
AMD Turion 64 mobile
technology ML-34
hope this helps

 

First step: Is the volume on?
Double click the audio icon in the task bar to get to the Master Volume controller and check ALL settings.
Second step: Is the Windows Audio service running?
Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services
Scroll down the list of services until you find Windows Audio
Open up Windows Audio by double clicking
Make sure it is running, if not, click on Start.
If the first 2 steps didn't fix the problem.
Third step: Check to see if your Sound Device drivers are OK. Use Device Manager:
To open Device Manager: Start>Control Panel> System. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager, then click the plus sign in front of Sound, Video, Game Controllers.
In Device Manager, if there is a ? in front of your audio device, that means no audio driver is installed.
A ! means driver installation attempted but with problems.

Let us know what you find.

 

when i go to the device manager and check all these it says location Unknown for all the devices in the sound games controllers and i know my sound is turned on

 

and i did find that windows audio was disabled but when i try to play music it tells me there is no device

 

i have a ? with multimedia audio controller

 

Uninstall the driver with the ? (Right click on it and choose uninstall) and then install this one.
D00377-002-002.exe - Gateway Conexant AC-Link Audio Driver version: 6.14.10.0575
Supports: Windows XP

 

says faiure to install propery

 

Being a Gateway you should have got a recovery disc or have a recovery partition already setup. Do you have either? If you have either one you should be able to load the drivers from there.

If you have a recovery partition, you should be able to recover your drivers this way:
Uninstall the driver you just installed.
Go to Start>All Programs>System Recovery, and click Application and Driver Recovery.
If Application and Driver Recovery is not listed, go to Start>Run. Then type (copy and paste would be better): C:\Windows\Sminst\install_app.exe
and then click OK.
In the Application Recovery Program select the correct option. (Look for the Audio driver)
If it doesn't install properly, uninstall it, find your chipset driver (same way) and install it then the audio driver again.

If this doesn't work, download Everest and post the report from it as an attachment.
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