Suddenly got a red cross over audio output and no sound. Thought hardware problem. Bought basic soundcard, installed drivers. Still red cross still no sound. Looked on MS Answers. Tried every single suggestion regarding drivers and such. Downloaded drivers and installed them like a fool. No change, nothing. Eventually realised not a driver issues. Windows corruption issue. Made clean install from DVD and voila, sound is restored with no red cross. Then tried doing refresh from Windows.old. Achieved this successfully and...red cross re-appeared.Now have done a clean install once more and have a machine with working sound but no user files or data. Damn Windows folder; there are 45,485 files in my Windows.old version of Windows (folder) and 45,307 files in my clean install version of same folder. Somewhere in that vast haystack is the needle that explains why sound does not work. Damndest thing. For others suffering from the audio issue, while many well-intentioned folk here have put forward sensible suggestions about drivers, they are not necessarily the answer. And in fact may just waste a lot of your time.

Anyone with suggestions for restoring more selectively from Windows.old or my latest back-up (obviously without causing the corruption ..) ?

My machine : Lenovo 3000 J115 73886BG AMD 64 Proc 3500+ BIOS LENOVO 2NKT31AUS 24/10/2007

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