No sound in 'Safe' mode

Dear All,

Due to some issues with my graphics card and drivers (i think), my PC freezes after it has been running for some time. What I have found however, is that I can then boot in 'Safe mode with networking' and can use my PC for as long as I like without any further issues. The problem I then face is there is no sound and a poor refresh rate. The refresh rate I can live with, the sound I cannot. So, my question is, how can I manually load the sound drivers so I can have sound whilst running in safe mode?

My PC config -

Pentium IV 2.66MhZ
1GB DDR RAM
Leadtek NVIDIA GeForce Ti4200 128 MB Ram
80 GB WD hard drive
Gigabyte GA 8IPE1000 Pro 2 motherboard (using on-board sound)
Running Windows XP Pro with SP2 installed

 

Thanks for replying Halo. I don't have any yellow !'s in device manager at all. The issue with my graphics card is that I can use say, Firefox browser, and browse the net for indefinite periods of time without any problems. If however, a graphics intensive application is then launched, say for example Realplayer to play a music video, the video opens, but then the monitor flashes completely black (no signal being sent to it from the graphics card) for like 1 second, the image comes back then flashes black again like 5-10 seconds later and so on until the entire system locks up completely and does not respond to any control inputs whatsoever. Also, if I play Puzzle Pirates (a java based game), I can play it for a while, but then if the game moves to a particular part where it becomes more graphics intensive, the whole PC locks up and has to be rebooted. The strange thing is though that I can then reboot in 'Safe mode with networking' and can play for hours and hours without any problems or issues at all. (Just without sound and at a low refresh rate).

Thanks for the driver link, I have d'loaded and installed the INFupdate.

And here are a couple of messages from the history log of the event viewer -

The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
Fips
intelppm

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Once again, thanks for your time.