Hi again all, i think this is posted in the right place...

The problem is there is NO sound at all on my mates LapTop after installing 2K or XP from fresh. never tried 98 on it tho!

When he got it, it came with 2K installed and sound worked cool, but for obvious reasons he decided to reinstall 2K again... between him and his misses they done it but it had no sound, he has since decided to get XP and try that... still no sound!

...so, he's now given me the task of trying to fix it! i've reinstalled XP from fresh again, still no sound... after some searching on the net i've found that the soundcard is supported by XP and it has the needed drivers on the XP disk... and nothing apears wrong to me in device manager... (i did try 2K drivers on XP with no luck, so i used the rollback feature)

System Specs
CPU: AMD k6-2 300mhz
RAM: 64mb
GFX: S3 ViRGE MX
SND: ESS AudioDrive ES1869
BIOS DATE: 03/28/96
Don't know manafacture of it b'cuz the case is unbadged except for "Notebook" (is that a make? like HP, Dell etc) on the top and MODEL# 1300 on the label with serial# etc on the bottom...

so basically i've tried all i know, (not 2 much!) as i've never had this such prob b4... its a clean install and i've added no other hardware drivers at all as XP usually does it all... have i missed something? and b'cuz its a LapTop does thus make any difference to the situation...

Your help and suggestions are appreciated, i'm a little confused on this 1

TIA & Regards

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