I had the same problems as listed above. The sound was gone, my soundcard was installed, 
but clicking on "Sounds and Audio Devices" only showed greyed out options. I tried 
the "Windows Audio" in Services (the hint descibed in one of the latest posts on 
this thread), but it was already running, and restarting it didn't do anything for 
me. 

After uninstalling the soundcard and rebooting the pc, I noticed an error message 
concerning the "streamci.dll" file. I searched google for the file, downloaded it, 
put it into the Windows/system32 folder and rebooted the pc. And that did the trick. 

Though it worked for me, I wouldn't put too much hope into this solution, unless 
you're seeing a similar error message when you restart your pc. 

AMD Athlon 2400+
Windows XP SP2
Creative Soundblaster Live!

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