Lost Sound

[cgs007]

My g/f's system suddenly lost all sound.
I checked Control Panel> Sounds , it is all greyed out.
I uninstalled all multimedia devices from Device Manager and rebooted.
Windows detected the onboard sound and reinstalled the drivers.
Still no sound,Control Panel shows all devices greyed out.
Checked Control Panel > add remove>windows setup> multimedia, Looks ok everything is checked.
Also checked the bios to ensure AC97 is enabled
I cant figure this one out, any help is appreciated.

Sys specs
Compaq 5000 series
Duron 900
256 meg ram
FIC mobo with onboard AC97 sound
Win ME

 

[DieHardware]

Did you try reinstalling the sound driver manually? There might be more than one place in BIOS where the sound needs to be enabled.

 

[cgs007]

Yes i tried reinstalling sound card drivers and made sure the bios has sound enabled ,
Device manager shows working properly but under sounds and multimedia , record and playback is still greyed out.
Even tried a SBLive card and get the same thing.
Gotta be a registry problem i guess?
Looks like i might need to reinstall the O/S