I recently erased my sound max by mistake and now there is no sound coming from the PC or the speakers, how do I restore that?

Click on Start, settings, control panel, system icon, hardware tab and then click device mgr.

Do you have any yellow marks next to any of the sound devices? If so, right click on it or them and choose uninstall and say OK.

Close all windows and restart your computer

On startup, windows should find your sound device and install drivers for it. Check sound when back in windows.

Hope this works. Post back

Click on Start, settings, control panel, system icon, hardware tab and then click device mgr.

Do you have any yellow marks next to any devices?

If so, what are they? And list anything you may have under sound devices and if any marks with them.

IF there are not any marks, list item under sound devices

Install back the sound card driver .


Regards,
ABB

Click on Start, settings, control panel, and click on add new hardware and you did not mentino if there are any yellow marks in device mgr now or not

There are ? By multimedia and other devices

So, you did try above, chose uninstall and then restarted PC and that did not help?

What is listed next to the "?", does it say unknown device or does it give the name of the device?
If so, what does it say?

Basically what is shown next to other devices and multimedia?