no sound on pc, images blurred

tiger

i recently had to re-install all my xp and from then onwards there was no sound and no microphone icon on the screen.i also cant find microsoft word/excel.
i then used windows update to upgrade to to xp2 and now all my fonts and images are blurred.
tried playing around with all the dislay settings/resolutions and although i can move the resolution setting slider it always revert back to the 600x480(4 bits) all the images look big and blurred.

any help out there ?

some basic stuff about the pc are;

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600) eMachines, Inc. Imperial Revision 0.90
Enclosure Type: Other
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.30 gigahertz Intel Celeron
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: TriGem Computer, Inc. Imperial 1.10
BIOS: Phoenix 6.00 06/17/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
80.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
73.28 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

ST380012A [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 3JV201Q9, rev 4.04, SMART Status: Healthy 254 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'J5G3' has 256 MB
Slot 'J5G2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 80.02 GB 73.28 GB free

Network Drives
None detected
Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account None detected
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Intel(r) 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller-24CB
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] None detected
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Intel(r) 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller - 24CD
Host Controller - 24C7 MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices
Generic SoftK56 [Modem]
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
Dhcp Server: none responded

Networking Dns Servers: 62.24.222.134
62.24.222.135
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
SpeedTouch 330 ADSL Modem
USB Root Hub (4x)
Virus Protection [Back to Top]
No details available
Missing Microsoft Security Hotfixes [Back to Top]
No details available
Installed Microsoft Hotfixes [Back to Top]
Internet Explorer 6
SP1

Internet Explorer
SP1 (SP1)
Outlook Express 6
SP1
KB911567-OE6SP1-20060316.165634 on 1/9/2007 (details...)
Windows Media Player 8
KB917734_WMP8 (details...)
SP0
KB917734_WMP8 on 1/9/2007 (details...)
Windows Media Player
SP0
KB911564 on 1/9/2007 (details...)
Windows XP
SP2

albertross_2

Try downloading video and sound drivers from the manufacturers website.

as well as anything else with question marks in

start, run, devmgmt.msc

you will have to reinstall office as well

j_davies

Office for people who dont have Microsoft office.

Blacksheep1979

you need to install all the drivers for the motherboard, graphics card and sound card (if you have a seperate one).

tiger

thanks guys.i think i have sorted the sound bit out but not yet the screen resolution.
not sure about the how to install the graphics.do i need to buyanother? because i remember they all working well before.

BillScarab

No, you need to install the drivers for the card you have although in all the info you have provided above the one thing I can't see is a graphics card. Do what Albertross suggested above

start, run, devmgmt.msc

then look for an entry called display adapters, expand that and tell us what it syas then we can tell you where to look for drivers.

tiger

thanks scarab
what it says is starfighter agp
please help

tiger

any one there?