I'm running XP Home and after installing a new larger hard disc everything is running smoothly but not my Windows Media Player.
I've checked my connections and they are OK. The volume control is on in both XP and WMP.
What wrong can it be?
AS ALWAYS, HOPING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCEI'm guessing you reinstalled Windows XP when you put in this new drive, but did you reinstall your sound card drivers too?Nio I didn't. How shall I do that?Do you have a soundcard, or is it onboard sound. You should have a disk for your motherboard if you are using onboard sound. Either way what you need to do is reinstall the driver for the sound.My problem is that I know nothing about this procedure. Would you please explain in a very easy way how to do? Can you give a complete listing of your hardware? (make & model)

I'm guessing there's more drivers than sound that haven't been installed.As you - of course - have understood already I'm a real newbie.
Where do I find such a list of hardware that you ask for? Download Everest Home Edition:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_everest_home/

Install and run it. At the top, click the "Report" button.
Click "Next".
Select "System Summary only" and click "Next".
Select "Plain text" and click "Finish".

When it's finished, it will show a report listing all of your hardware. The only SECTIONS we need to see from this are the very first section, the second section (Summary), and the very last section (Debug - Unknown). The last section may or may not contain information. Just copy and paste the information here, then we can get started on locating drivers for your hardware.

You can skip the large section of information in the middle (PCI and Video BIOS) as they won't be necessary for this.although he does need a new set of drivers after the reinstall, wouldn't sndvol32 being in the system tray mean a sound driver of some sort is installed? Obviously the wrong one, I guess...
Click start then right click my computer and choose properties at the bottom. This should bring up the basic INFO about you computer. Now click the hardware tab at the top then click device manager. This shows all of the hardware and drivers you have installed. If you see a yellow or red ! or ? then you need a driver for that device. You may have received a drivers disk when you bought your computer. Look through all of the disks that came with it. The disk might say something like "drivers and utilities" on it. If you don't have the disk search the internet for your computer manufacturers website. If your lucky they will have all of the drivers for your MACHINE available for download. However, some companies don't offer a driver download page. If you cant find the drivers there then try this: http://www.driverguide.com/
post back and let us know how you did. Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 06, 2008, 04:55:01 PM

although he does need a new set of drivers after the reinstall, wouldn't sndvol32 being in the system tray mean a sound driver of some sort is installed? Obviously the wrong one, I guess...