No internal speaker drive

macbook pro os 10.6.8
all in sudden when I started up it asked me to restart because it has some problem. I restarted then this time no start up sound.
speaker icon on right top is grey and I am unable to change anything.
open the preference for input and output, from both no drive listed.
However when I connect my usb speaker its drive appears in driver list and sound come out no problem.
I tried with earphone but there is no sound , it does not show any internal speaker driver in sound preference.
Can i get just internal speaker drive from mac support free of charge, just like we can always do for windows PC?
or do I need to reinstall OS? Where can I get OS ?

Tried replacing the battery, This has yeilded no improvement (the old battery checked out fine on a digital volt metre)
What do people recomend i do next, bearing in mind that the primary objective is to retrieve a load of files off the hard drive and burn them to CD.
-Should i try removing and reinserting the CPU? and all the other components?
-Should i try getting a cheap secondhand MB/CPU to make the system work?
-Should i admit defeat and take the HD into a computer repair shop and ask them to make a cd of all the documents?
-Is it possible to add the HD to my own computer and access it as if it were a second drive? (my girlfriend would kill me if i messed up our computer, and I hear that having SATA makes drive configuration very complicated)
Any other suggestions?
thanks again
My sys spec should appear below, my friend's old broken computer spec is in the first message of the thread

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