Sound/Audio - No Volume Icon for NC6400 Notebook on XP

There is no speaker icon in the lower left corner???
In Sound and Audio Devices it says "no audio device"???
Any ideas.
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Just reloaded the image on the same drive and it works now.
Must have been a corrupted image.
Thanks for your help.
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