Audio & Password problem

[ers1121]

Windows XP Home
Biostar P4SXQ
SIS650
480Mb PC2100 Ram

I just finished reformating my daughters system due to an overload of junk from the grandkids games, and the system was running very slow. I copied all of the music & picture files to my HDD to replace on hers later. After reinstalling Windows the system now has no audio. I reinstalled all of the drivers & checked everything in the bios and it shows everthing ok. When I open the Control Panel for the sound it is all greyed out and tells me there is no audio device installed. I have updated all of the drivers, unplugged and plug in everything I can think of, rebooted no less than 10 times, all to no avail. Any other ideas or suggestions?

The next problem is when I tried to network this computer back to mine it keeps bringing up a dialog box with the computer name and asking me for the password. Since i'm the one installed the system I know that there is no password, any idea what thats all about. I did get around that by burning all of her picture & music files (almost 2000 pics of the kids) and copying them to the right folder but I need to resolve this password problem before I bring it back, just in case she has more problems and I need to network with mine again?

Any help greatly appricated

Ed

[Sterling_Aug]

1.) You must not be installing the audio driver properly, it is not the correct audio driver, or the sound card has failed. You can et a new sound card for $10.

2.) You must supply an administrator password to install Windows. Try pressing the Enter key when it asks for the password if you left it blank during the install.

[ers1121]

Thanks for the reply!

I went to the device manager and it shows everything good. Control panel says no device installed, I just may have to opt for an add-on sound card.

As for the password it never asked for one when I installed it, and I did try to leave that field blank, only for that same dialog box to come up again. For now that isn't my biggest problem.

I did download the drivers from Biostar last night, but that didn't help. I remeber having this same problem when I reformatted my laptop. I couldn't get the sound to work then either, even after downloading the driver dirvers direct from Compaq, I finally downloaded a different set for WinXP from I don't remember where... but it worked after that. A cheap soundcard might just be faster.
Thanks
Ed

[ers1121]

The new sound card did the trick, I got around the network password by burning everything to a dvd and copying it to the appropriate folder.
Thanks,
Ed