HELP bad directsound driver

my pc at work has never had speakers.. so I am trying a pair. get on my aol
account to use AOL RADIO and I keep getting BAD DIRECTSOUND DRIVER.

a. what does that mean?
b. what do I do?

dear goodness. when I put in a cd, there is no sound.

c. how do I find out if my pc has sound?

PLEASE HELP!

Kris, try downloading and installing the latest version of DirectX from
Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

"Kris" <Kris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> my pc at work has never had speakers.. so I am trying a pair. get on my
> aol
> account to use AOL RADIO and I keep getting BAD DIRECTSOUND DRIVER.
>
> a. what does that mean?
> b. what do I do?
>
> dear goodness. when I put in a cd, there is no sound.
>
> c. how do I find out if my pc has sound?
>
> PLEASE HELP!