875P - Onboard Sound - Installing Drivers

I recently built a machine with the 875P board installed. Ive installed Win XP and everything seems to be working fine, except for the sound.
I tried installed the drivers that were on the CD, but the at the end of the installation an error pops up saying "Driver could not be found! Reboot and run this installation again".
I've rebooted and re-run the installation a number of times, but the drivers will still not install. I even downloaded the driver from the web just in case it was the CD, but I get the same error.
When I go into the Audio properties in the Control Panel is says that there is no sound device installed because the drivers wont install.
Anyone else have any problems with this? Or no how to resolve the issue?
Let me know if you need more info.
Cheers
Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz (Northwood)
1GB PC3200 DDR400 RAM
MSI 875P Neo-LSR Mainboard
Radeon 9800 Atlantis Pro 128MB
Maxtor 160GB SATA HD
Philips DVD+R/+RW - CD+R/+RW
PSU ATX 450W
Coolermaster Wave Master ATX Chassis

Assaf, thanks for that. I'm in work at the moment, but will check those settings when I get home. As far as I can remember though the Sound was on in Bios, but I don't remember seeing "PCI multimedia device" in the device manager.
Will double check it tonight.
KN3WT, just had a read of your post and thread. Sorry your havig problems too. I didn't even manage to install the SoundMax drivers upon first insallation.
Is it just the headphone jack thats giving you problems?
Anyone know what the correct driver to install is? There were a number of them on the CD. The website says the ADI SoundMax one is correct though.

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