No Sound.... After reloading WinXp

A few months ago I bought a used AOL Systemax pc running windows xp home edition for my kids to play games and pretty much do as they please because I've run into problems when they use mine. I decided to reload windows because of a few problems I had with it. I used a standard windows xp home edition cd, and most of the drivers were installed... whatever lacked were downloaded when I ran Windows update. The soundcard (Inboard) did not get an update... but my computer does detect it in the device manager. I've tried using a couple of drivers (SIS) but nothing seems to work. It frreezes when installing the 7018 driver, which is what my computer is detecting the soundcard needs. I even tried the 7012 driver from the SIS website recommendation but still nothing.

What else can I do? I've used the Belarc Advisor and this is what I get....



Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) SYX snc302eeh
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.40 gigahertz Intel Celeron
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Foxconn 651M03 SiS651/962L
Serial Number: UL6P44804123
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 06/28/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
41.16 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
33.78 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5239V [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

HDS728040PLAT20 [Hard drive] (41.17 GB) -- drive 0, s/n PFD110S1RDD3SE, rev PF1OA21B, SMART Status: Healthy 224 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' is Empty
Slot 'A1' has 256 MB
Slot 'A2' is Empty
Slot 'A3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 41.16 GB 33.78 GB free

Network Drives
0


Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
SiS PCI IDE Controller SiS 650/651/740/661FX/741/760 series [Display adapter]
PHILIPS 107G6 [Monitor] (15.2"vis, s/n CX 697018, September 2004)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller (2x)
SiS PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller SiS 7018 Audio Driver
Communications Other Devices
Cnxt 2011 D850 56K V.9x DF Modem


SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
USB Human Interface Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
USB Root Hub (3x)

 

Have you tried right click My Computer, click manage, click devices, click sound,video and game controllers, click on the sound device, usually ac 97 with many on-board sound, and click driver, click uninstall.
Shut down and let Windows find it again, and it should reinstal from the driver cache.
You can then update driver from this same point, if you need to.