No Sound - Help!

[ddmartin]

Some added information.
Also I get this message in the device manager, under the
sound device properties. "Driver is enabled but has not
been started"?

>-----Original Message-----
>My computer shut down by itself when I was updating some
>software and since then I have lost the use of some
>items. CD-RW, DVD-RW, Sound and Logitech Quickcam. They
>all had an "!" next to them in the device manager. I've
>resolved the CD and DVD issues from this newsgroup going
>into the registry and making some changes which removed
>all of the "!", but cannot get the sound to work or
>quickcam.
>
>I have a strange error and don't know how to solve it.
>In the Device Manager, no error is reported. However I
>have no sound at all. When I go in the "Sounds and Audio
>Devices" Control Panel, it says "No Audio Device" and
all
>tabs are greyed out. I've uninstalled the sound drivers
>and reinstalled but it doesn't help, updated the drivers
>no help. Any idea how to change this without
reinstalling
>Windows? I have Win XP Pro.
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