Dimension 2400, no sound!

When I go to Device Manager, these items appear under the category Other Devices with yellow question marks beside them: Dell A920 (Twice?), Ethernet Controller, Multimedia Audio Controller, PCI Modem, SM Bus Controller.

And under sound video and game controllers these show up with the normal speaker icon: Audio Codecs, Legacy Audio Drivers, Legacy Video Capture Devices, Media Control Devices, Video Codecs.

I checked to see if any of them are disabled and they are not.

Also, these are not after market speakers, they're the ones that came with the computer.

Sounds like you're still missing most drivers, even if you did download them - they either didn't get installed, or didn't install correctly.

To try and straighten this out, there's a specific install order for drivers - you don't have everything on that list, but the order is important.   Try installing the chipset driver first - make sure you follow the installation instructions:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh&releaseid=R47822&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_CEL_2400&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=3268&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=27&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=56457

Then reboot the computer.  After that try the remaining drivers ONE AT A TIME and see if they work - video, audio, ethernet (network), modem, etc.

The A920 is a printer - that's a whole other animal.

Thank you very much for such a detailed answer!

So should I delete the drivers I've already installed and then install them in the correct order, or would it not hurt to just install them again in the correct order ?

When I go to save the driver it doesn't ask me where I want to save it, it only saves.

If you did download them all as per your first post, you should already have them and don't need to download them again.

Just match up the name of the file that shows up when you click "download" with what you've downloaded already:  R47822 for chipset, etc.

Alternatively, find the Drivers and Utilities disk that came with the 2400 and use that instead - it might be easier.

I just downloaded the chipset driver, then retried downloading the audio driver, and still nothing..

Any other suggestions ?

I greatly appreciate your help.

I have solved the problem!

I went to device manager and then fiddled around and it just started working!

Thank you so much for all the help.

Glad you got it sorted.