I recently had to reinstall XP due to too many software conflicts.
All the hardware was working properly though.
Now I have a clean install of XP SP2 with the latest patches but I
can't get the sound drivers to work.
I installed a driver for my motherboard 865M-G8 and the new hw wizard
now recognizes my onboard
sound card as Realtek AC97 and installs drivers for it automatically.
However it appears with a 'question mark' in device manager and the
status window
under properties says 'failed to start'.
I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling but to no avail.
I am thinking it's a driver issue as I had sound working prior to
reinstalling windows,
but not sure what to try next.

Any help would be appreciated

Marius