I've read a similar post to this but the solution didn't work for me. The 'sound and audio devices' is telling me there is no sound device installed. I hear no sounds at all except the occasional bleep . No WMP , No Winamp, No CD/DVD music etc. This started after I had a problem with booting, the laptop wouldn't get past the windows log on screen.So , as my original xpcd was damaged I had to buy another one to reinstall. Since then I get a message saying 'bad directsound drivers or no device'. In device manager there is "other devces" with multmedia audio controller listed with the yellow exclamation mark on it. I have all windows [except SP2] updates installed, I can't update any sound device cos it says I aint got one . PLZ Help.