I recently wiped my hard drives and reloaded XP Pro and did all the windows updates including service padk 3. The computer has a motherboard sound device and not an expansion sound card and the motherboard is M7 VIG PRO D. I have gone through the troubleshooting help screens and have the most current driver but still no sound. Any ideas? The speakers are Altec Lansing 305

I got an Everest Online University laptop from a pawn shop, I wiped the hard drive and re-installed windows, the white screen came back, I installed a Linux Operating System (Ultimate Edition 3.0) and the Everest Block was unable to work,problem solved, never saw the problem ever again on that computer.

you did not installed audio driver while you re-installed xp.please install your audio driver through your driver's cd

1. Reinstall OS ESPECIALLY XP service pack 3
2.Go Online to http://driverscollection.com, download an update your PC Bios and download other drivers.
3. Do not forget to install Antivirus(Avast).

Test your PSU or replace it if your power supply units fan is not working your PSU is faulty

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect/ boot up a computer hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty
make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they are probably old and faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error
hope this helps

replace leads that attach from your motherboard to hard drive
One bad/faulty lead can cause a computer with lots of problems
replace all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA the ones that attach from your motherboard to hard drive
make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they are probably old and faulty ?
hope this helps

try to use a another hdd. maybe your recent hdd is intermittent.

Windows xp has a max Hard drive limit of 137GB, so what you see is totally right.
Windows XP did not support 48-bit LBA for ATAPI disk drives, which is what larger drives needs.
The service packs do address the problem but you need to have a copy of windows xp which includes at least service pack 1 on the installation.
The problem is when you install from your original disk, it doesn't include the service packs, so by the time you have got the system up and running the hard disk space has already been allocated.

Bios update wont help
controller card won't help either

Possible solutions:
If you can get hold of a new version of XP which includes at least service pack 1, you can re-install with this disk and it should find all your hard disk space
or
You can do what is called 'slipstreaming', this is when you burn the original XP disk and the service packs together on one disk, but it does take a bit of working out.

here are a few links which may help you more:

http://lifehacker.com/386526/slipstream-service-pack-3-into-your-windows-xp-installation-cd


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013


hope this al least sheds a little light on the problem
Bri

I have found 2 websites taht can help you somewhat:
1) this is the one with the steps that can help you, http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=How_To_Install_and_Troubleshoot_ATA_Hard_Drives&vgnextoid=559e5b1142aec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

2) This site you may download the Win98 bootup disk to Fdisk you HDD and format to Fat32 or you may download the Win XP startup disks to format the HDD and create NTFS partitions:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Have a look at these for more info:

http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/3D2F91493F7B80D5CA256EA80038C9A7

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/work/installwindowsxp.aspx

http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/geek-to-live-how-to-format-your-hard-drive-and-install-windows-xp-from-scratch-157578.php

I hope that helps.

I had this problem on a computer recently. This particular motherboard may be needing the driver on the Windows XP SP2 disk. Your motherboard may have been made to use Microsoft SATA drivers. Othewise, there would have been a driver disk that came with the motherboard to let it see that SATA hard drive.
If it's a new hard drive, you have to reinstall the O/S so use a disk new enough to have SP2 included.