Satellite Pro A10: No sound after upgrade to Win XP Home SP2

Hi,
Just used the recovery discs on my Sat Pro A10, no problem with sound, and then upgraded XP Home to SP2, no sound.
From what I have read elsewhere, this is a problem, and there doesn't appear to be an answer. I have spent hours searching for updated drivers to no avail.
I have also contacted Toshiba support, after much huffing, and puffing they pointed me to the following driver, 5.12.01.3542, which is the same as the one I already installed, and does not work.
Surely there must be something out there that works.
Ant.

Install the newest available sound driver fro this sound chip and perform the all the Windows updates available on the Microsoft page!
Update simply the whole OS!!!
http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us
Note; possibly you have to reboot the notebook and have to connect to this site several times to get all the available patches.

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