No Sound With XP..... Help!!!

After having to use the "repair" feature on xp because of this error ( "WINDOWS COULD NOT RESTART ITSELF BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CONFIG\SYSTEM

YOU CAN ATTEMPT TO REPAIR THIS FILE BY STARTING WINDOWS SETUP USING THE ORIGINAL SETUP CD ROM. SELECT R AT THE FIRST SCREEN TO START REPAIR")
I now have no sound!!!! I have tried installing new drivers for my sound card, manually removing and reinstalling my sound card and updating my mobo driver.....all with no results. In my device manager under system devices there is an exclamation mark beside the Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator and the status box reads "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device. (which I did with no luck) Any help as to what the hell is going on would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks

specs........... hope this helps

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V-133 ACPI BIOS Revision 1009 04/23/2002
1.15 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM)
Creative Game Port

 

What drivers are you trying, the ones from the cd?
Try obtaining some from www.driverguide.com

 

I have tried using the most recent drivers several times with no luck....

 

Make sure the Windows Audio service is running.

 

there is an exclamation mark beside the Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator, that mean you have hardware conflict.
Make sure all sound drivers must be remove before install new one

 

hey guys...


Windows Audio service is running and I removed all sound card drivers through device manager and in safe mode, but still getting same problem