When you are booting with a fresh copy of XP the hardware detection will ask for drivers for the hardwares that are detected at that time such as those needed to run the video and sound cards. For the sound you have to go to the manufacturer's support site to download an update which when opened should see the needed drivers installed at that time. If there is no sound heard after this you would go into the device manager and right click on the yellow marked listings under sound and game controllers or in the "other devices" section to select your model card.
Upon right clicking at that listing you would choose the update driver option to have Windows install those for you after browsing to the folder where the drivers are now found. Once the correct driver name is chosen pressing the enter key then sees Windows copy the drivers and makes them active. What make and model card are you running?
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