Terryl
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I have just remembered something from a few years ago, (it takes a bit for my brain to kick in) I had about the same problems with a customers Dell PC, with trying to run XP Pro on a Dell PC manufactured and sent out with Vista as an OS and Vista hardware drivers, he did not want Vista and tried to go back to XP, he formatted the hard drive to start fresh.
What happened is that some of the hardware drivers were not backward compatible, (XP to Vista ready hardware) we had to install a network card, video card and sound card to get it to run like it did before.
The on-board video would not work except in safe mode, installing a video card fixed this, and had to do the same for the network and sound.
It seams that the new hardware chip sets were redesigned for a Vista + OS, (Vista and beyond) and were not reverse compatible with XP.
So it may show up in the hardware list, but it may not operate as before, I would look around for a Sound Blaster USB sound card, (or something like it) it may be the only way to fix the missing audio, or go to Windows 7.
What happened is that some of the hardware drivers were not backward compatible, (XP to Vista ready hardware) we had to install a network card, video card and sound card to get it to run like it did before.
The on-board video would not work except in safe mode, installing a video card fixed this, and had to do the same for the network and sound.
It seams that the new hardware chip sets were redesigned for a Vista + OS, (Vista and beyond) and were not reverse compatible with XP.
So it may show up in the hardware list, but it may not operate as before, I would look around for a Sound Blaster USB sound card, (or something like it) it may be the only way to fix the missing audio, or go to Windows 7.