uninstall sound drivers on XP sp3

[SZakir]

Hi There, I am unable to hear any sound, neither i am able to see the volume control icon on the bottom right corner of the screen, tried to uninstall the sound drivers but i cannot find audio drivers in - add and remove programs. when i click on "Sounds and Audio Devices" it says "No Audio Device".
can anyone please help me out.
lost the xp cd as well...

 

[beta212]

The beloved windows xp.... My memory is kinda eroding, but the sound drivers don't happen to be from realtek do they? Pain in the A** to work.

 

[SZakir]

yes i believe

 

[beta212]

Realtek drivers seem to have a bad tendency to fail. Last time it failed on me(some 6 years ago on win xp), I had to restore it from my back up disk. Good luck with your's.

 

[aldan]

if i remember correctly you can find your sound device in device manager. click on properties to find out what kind of sound device you have. i would uninstall the sound device,then download the proper one. reboot and xp should recognize the sound device. then you should be able to install the driver.

 

[kenrivers]

If you see "No Audio Device" then it appears as though no audio device driver is installed and thus it cannot be uninstalled. I take it you have looked in Device Manager but if you haven't follow the advice of the previous poster. You can check the manufacturer's site under downloads/drivers to look for the audio device driver.