no sound on alienware m3200 laptop

hi,
brought a second hand laptop that arrived without some drivers not operating. I've got drivers from the alienware website & also tried drivers downloaded by "driver genuis"... but still hasn't worked. I read some problems with XP SP2 so i intalled SP3 & also tried a fresh install of vista with still no success, so i'm back to my XP sp2 image. After reading other posts on here i checked my BIOS but its got no audio options
Device manager has a yellow mark on "Vinyl AC'97 Codec combo driver (WDM). Legacy audio drivers has no yellow mark but nothing listed in its properties.
Please help as this has been driving me nuts for about a week now!
thanks
jason

 

Device status of "Vinyl AC'97 Codec combo driver (WDM)" is
"This device cannot start (Code 10)"
Also having problems with other drivers like the modem & an unrecognised network controller, but i'm not to worried about them but thought i should state it incase it's related.

 

The image on the laptop is from my desktop with obviously different hardware & XP SP2. A fresh install of XP SP1 doesn't work on the laptop because from memory a file called "pci.sys". Ive read that this problem doesn't happen with XP SP2 install but don't have that available.
So i've uninstalled many of the drivers from the image & install all these drivers from alienware that match my model
http://support.alienware.com/Suppor..._processed.aspx?os=WXP&cat=32&manu=8&item=753

Thanks for advice, any others ideas will be much appreaciated

 

Thanks for the image advice, i thought i could just uninstall drivers & reinstall them.
XP wouldn't install from disk because bluescreen pci.sys. So i slipstreamed SP2 & completed fresh install. I've got all correct drivers from manufactures website with matching model numbers. I've installed chipset drivers, restarted & tried to install audio drivers but still same problem as mentioned above. Modem driver install gets stuck on a file name something like speaker.dll which makes some sences considering the sound isn't working.
Any more help or ideas appreaciated

 

i've only just got this second hand laptop. rang the lady i purchased from & she said the sound worked for her. She sent it to PC guy to remove her data, arrived with fresh install of xp with same driver problems i'm having. i've never had sound

 

thansk again 4 help crjdriver,
did everything exactly as you've said in that last post.
fresh install by booting from CD on startup, not in windows. Deleted & formated C: partition that windows was on.
Installed chipset drivers, rebooted, installed sound drivers, rebooted.
Then that device manager screen shoot was taken.
Is there anyway to test the speakers or sound card for just a beep sound like my BIOS does on my desktop, just to test if it's hardware or a drivers problem? cos i've never had trouble with drivers like this before.

 

I finally got the entire back off the case to expose all the hardware. I found a screw that didn't belong sitting against the face of one of the speakers. the screw wasn't very big & no idea where it came from(different to the 2 types holding case together) but looked big when stuck to the face of the tiny speaker. I removed the screw. Uninstalled audio drivers, & reinstalled. Sound still doesn't go, but could have this srew damaged the speaker some how? It was sitting against the cone & magnetised. But the cone didn't look broken.
i'm gonna get this thing going one way or another!

 

thanks for your help anyway crjdriver with this frustrating problem.
I even found a newer driver version than listed on alienware website but still no luck
Is there any info i can give from everest that may help?