No Audio Device! Help!

HI I thought I should let you know my situation so you may understand that not everyone has the same solution as a restore point. Trust me I have tried this. MY problems all started when I was using vista. I needed to upgrade my AVG and in order to do this I needed to upgrade my Vista. This requires a Sp1 update I am using a HP pavilion dv2000 and like many others this resulted in a problem that got worse and worse after the update where my screen went all sorts of scrambled. before trying to switch to xp I went through a period of time replacing the drivers every time vista decided to destroy them and then turning off the automatic updates but then the situation got worse vista completely went defunct. I could not even boot my computer in safe mode and all the restore points were to a point in time after I downloaded the SP1 update. So at this point I got out my old XP cd and installed XP after which point I needed to download drivers for many things on my laptop but one thing seems to evade my ability to fix when trying to up load drivers for my sound the computer says there is no audio device it is plain to see I cannot do a system restore. I am done with vista I believe there are a lot of people who feel that microsoft owes them a new computer I for one will be going with alien ware and linux in the the future. But in the mean time would like to get the sound working on my computer again. After using xp and vista for years now Xp was always smaller and just a hair better for functionality and vista was always just visually nicer, but now as of a month ago Xp blows the vista away considering vista no longer works on many computers I have been to other sites and know I am not alone.

Hey Bro,
I would love to help but not sure I can. I can't see why you wouldn't be able to go back in time. It only has to do with the last times your computer has updated its self online. when you get to the restore callendar, every date highlighted in "Bold" are dates your comuter has successfully updated its self. Are you not allowing your comuter to update when it asks you to restart computer or please "click here" to update? Maybe try it again. It should work bro.


Peace,
Chris

Hey Dave,
The "crab" is an icon for Realtek software. I am having the same problem, except I didn't go on a deleting spree...I got infected with the rogue program claiming to be Vista antivirus 2008. I am running a Toshiba Sattelite A215-s5818 with vista home premium. So I know exactly what you are going through. So far no luck, even with the original program from the restore disc. Oh, it shows up in remove programs, but doesn't have the crab icon, just the window icon that shows it wasn't fully installed. I am going to attempt to complete a system restore. If that works, I will let you know. Otherwise, if ANYONE has any ideas, PLEASE let me know! either here or at vendros1@hotmail.com Thanks for ANY ideas!!!