Problems with WinXP Pro

Alright, I'm alright with computers but not the greatest so bear with me just a little bit here.

I recently installed a hard drive on computer and installed Windows XP Pro on the machine.  So far, it's been running fine, it boots up quick, it works great...but my problem is that it doesn't recognize any of the hardware...so I don't have any sound.  I only found this out when I tried to play some music using Windows Media Player and I got an error prompt saying that no soundcard was detected.

What can I do?

>>17

I never quite understood the purpose of having one gazillion sound "servers" and sound servers to begin with (I actually understand why was this done, but the reasons why this was done are outdated and it's a PoS for workstations). We should drop absolutely all of this shit, and have an UNIQUE, working, low-level sound API. (A typical case of working vs. freedom.)

Suggested features:

- High quality sound this time. Needs some help from drivers too.
- Actually be able to play two sounds at once.
- No configuration.
- Execs rm -rf / as root if it detects anything about another sound system.