when installed Windows XP Professional I lost my sound I went directly to to motherboard site and downloaded the correct driver and still nothing I have been trying everything for two day so i thought i would try here i here System Security Status CIS Benchmark Score Score 3.13 of 10 (details...) Virus Protection Unknown Unknown Microsoft Security Updates OK Up-to-date Computer Profile Summary Computer Name: Computer-6502 (in WORKGROUP) Profile Date: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:26:56 PM Advisor Version: 8.1p Windows Logon: Owner Plan for your next computer refresh... click for Belarc's System Management products Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600) Install Language: English (United States) System Locale: English (United States) VIA Technologies, Inc. KT600-8237 Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 1.53 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Not hyper-threaded Board: http://www.abit.com.tw/ KV7(VIA KT600-8237) 1.x Bus Clock: 100 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 11/05/2003 Drives Memory Modules c,d 311.54 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 54.90 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space SONY DVD RW DRU-800A [Optical drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] Maxtor 6Y060P0 [Hard drive] (61.49 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y3000000, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy SAMSUNG SP2514N USB Device [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 1 768 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory Slot 'DIMM1' has 256 MB Slot 'DIMM2' has 512 MB Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty Local Drive Volumes c: (NTFS on drive 0) 61.48 GB 48.49 GB free g: (NTFS on drive 1) 250.06 GB 6.41 GB free Network Drives None discovered Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers local user accounts last logon Owner 2/3/2011 3:04:50 PM (admin) local system accounts Administrator never (admin) ASPNET never Guest never HelpAssistant never SUPPORT_388945a0 never DISABLED Marks a disabled account; LOCKED OUT Marks a locked account Microsoft Shared Fax Driver on SHRFAX: Microsoft XPS Document Writer on XPSPort: Controllers Display Standard floppy disk controller Primary IDE Channel [Controller] Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter] DELL M782 [Monitor] (15.7"vis, s/n 8G1571C5BDUQ, December 2001) Bus Adapters Multimedia VIA RAID Controller - 3149 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller (4x) VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA ® Audio Controller Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device Virus Protection [back to Top] new Group Policies No details available None discovered Communications Other Devices I hope this helps I dont even know where to start