No sound on laptop

[finesse]

I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my laptop and since then the sound doesn't work. When I click on Volume Control in the Start menu, I get the message "There are no active mixer devices available" instead of the Volume Control menu. I did a search on Google and found out that usually the reason behind that is because Windows Audio is turned off. So I run services.msc and find that Windows Audio is turned on, but there still is no sound. So next I check the Sound and Audio Devices properties and it seems like the sound card isn't even detected. I have no idea what brand my sound card is so I have no idea how to install the driver for it. I did more searches on Google but found nothing so at this point, is there anything else that I can do to get the sound to work? Thanks.


EDIT: Problem is resolved...after 3 long hours I did a search to find out what sound card came with the model of the laptop and found their driver online and now it works.

[Ratsofat]

Is it the same sound card that came with your laptop? Is there an install disc that came with your laptop that you might need to use that contains all the drivers?