Sound Drivers

I have a Gateway MX6440 Laptop. I put windows 7 on it and I couldn't find any drivers for it so I went back to windows XP Pro. It had xp on it originally and the soundworked fine until I put 7 on it. Now with xp when I try to install the audio drivers I get a FAILURE error within the installation wizard.

All of the other drivers worked with no problem, but I'm struggling with this audio a bit. Can't figure out why it won't accept the drivers all of a sudden.

 

Have you tried uninstalling the drivers before re-installing?

 

Yes. I just put in a fresh copy of windows xp pro. There were no drivers on it. All of the drivers went in no problem except the audio.

 

They should be there. Maybe try a Repair Install with the disk (note - press Enter, not R for Recovery Console when you get the three options) and see if it picks them up this time.

 

Where exactly is that?

 

Still nothing.

 

Do you mean you did a repair install and it hasn't helped?
Here are instructions if you don't mean that:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Perhaps you had better give the full error message - if there is more.
I'm not sure why you had to install the drivers - they should have been there automatically.
Is there any sign of them in Device Manager under Sound, Video and Game Controllers? Any cross, exclamation mark or question mark there?