tonymaclennan

I recently installed XP pro, from home and now my sound card driver needs installing and aint the foggiest where to look.
I thinl its my sound card as when I try loading music in windows media player it says :
"Cannot play back the audio stream; no audio hardware is available or the hardware is not responing"

When I click help, a pop-up window opens saying:
"There is no sound card
You either do not have a sound card installed on your computer or it is not functioning properly. If you do not have a sound card installed, you must install one before you can listen to audio in a digital media file. If you do have a sound card installed, refer to its documentation to troubleshoot the problem.

Error ID = 0x80040256, Remedy ID = 0x00000000"

I have looked on HP website as my speakers are HP and working but no sound is coming out but I had no look finding the driver. I have Astra32 but dont know which section to look at.

if anybody could advice my where to look and what to do i'd be grateful


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