Dust, card lifted slightly in pci slot, cold solder point on board, XP's resource sharing meaning move it down one from the AGP or PCI-E slot as referred to by vroom skies, onboard sound disabled, and driver clash with another hardware are the usual problems. Make sure there's no little ding in the rear of the case if you have a retaining screw there causing the card to lift. Then there is the possible defect having developed in the card itself if nothing damaged any of the drivers. Check the device manager for yellow marks in the sound and game controllers section.
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