I have realtek audio 97 build in sound on a win media center XP machine. Sound is fine on boot-up, but after energy-saving sleep modes I may or may not lose it. Device manager says all working fine. Soundman.exe checked in start menu, but no icon in tray. Oddly, on shutdown the sound will return and play the log-off sound. Any ideas?
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I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop running XP Home. The VGA driver has been disabled and all I get after bootup is a black screen. None of the safe modes work. I gan get into recovery. How do I re-enable the VGA driver that was disabled?
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