no sound

i have just recently formated my hard drive and did a clean install of xp pro 32 bit on my R61 7733. i installed think vantage and sp3 almost everything works fine but i cant find my sound device. each time i boot up i get new hardware wizard come up for my sound device. i went to lenovos website and went followed the instructions a bunch of times but i cant find soundmax anywhere on my machine. nothing happens when i hit the volume buttoms on the keyboard, nothing comes up on the screen. in device manager under sound and vidieo controlers i dont have soundmax like i should and theres a a yellow question mark under devices that says audio device on high definition audio buss. I have been at this for days, have spent hrs and hrs and i cant fix this problem. can any one here help me or point me to somewhere or someone who can? I have absolutly no sounds not system beeps, nothing.

 

Sounds like an issue with the installation of your sound drives. Go to Lenovo's site and download the ZIP file of your drives. If it is an EXE, that will be ok. Next, boot up into safe mode by hitting F8 during your computer's startup. Go to the device manager and find your sound device/unknown device and right click->uninstall. Once that completes you should restart your computer into the same mode. Then run the EXE or go back to your device manager and right click->install drivers.