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Pioneer:
You guys have helped me through every problem so far
But now the last thing is the sound... there is none

All the sound options were greyed out in the control panel

It was like 3 in the morning and a was so tired I wasn't thinking, I just reached over and shut off the power without shutting down windows

BIG MISTAKE

now I can only get it to boot with the xp disk and when I press the option for safe mode it displays a screen full of numbers and then freezes

WHAT SHOULD I DO ?

RayB:
1. Cry

2. Check that your sound card hasn't come out of its slot.

3. Check nothing else has come out of its slot.

4. Check that your CPU fan is still working.

5. Keep rebooting and see if anything different happens.

hypernova:
6.  If none of the above options work, find a useless item and something to beat it with.  Then have at it. 

7.  If that doesn't help calm yourself, find something else to beat.  Repeat ad nauseam.

Good luck.  Hope you figure out the problem.

Pioneer:
Thanks for the encouragement ;)

I'm running off of the onboard sound, not a sound card.
Do you think if I put one in it might fix the problem?

Also is there a way to reset the motherboard?  Would that help?

Or re-format the harddrive with another computer and then slap it back in and start over ?      Am I on the right track?

Havok:
You should run chkdsk on the drive. There may be bad sectors...

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