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Pale,
Do you currently have an OS disc? What type of internal hard drive, graphics card, etc does your current system have?
No I don't have an OS disc, and my son who fancies himself quite computer savvy says installing a new OS won't fix my current no sound problem. I have an HP Pavilion a1610n with a AMD Athlon, 2.4 GHz, and 1 gig of DDR memory, upgradable to 4 gig. What I did was, like an IDIOT, uninstall the Legacy driver for my Realtek sound, and now it won't let me reinstall it because it keeps saying I need this Microsoft bus driver, which IS in it, but still gives me an error message saying it's not. It's a known problem. One I've googled and tried every fix under the sun and nothing has worked yet. I'm wondering how they ever got it working in the first place.
And the graphics is what came installed, NVIDIA, and the internal hard drive is a 250 gig.
I disagree wiith the son. a system recovery will install a brand copy including drivers and everything. what ya got to lose????
Well in his defense, he said it was a 50-50 chance because usually all the drivers are on a separate disc. He bought a Bare Bones computer and put it together and installed his own OS, and he said he had to go online and download a bunch of drivers that didn't come on the OS DVD for this and that to get his running right.