Windows Vista has a different sound than Windows XP. If you don't hear any sound at all, you may need to reinstall your audio driver.
You need to install driver for your sound card.
You should install the driver for your sound card.
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You have probably forgotten to install a driver for your sound card. Windows cannot include drivers to every piece of hardware out there, so some devices may not function out-of-the-box.
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You have not mentioned your laptop model. Most likely your sound card is not supported by Windows 98. You must have got the Motherboard CD when at the time of purchasing. Try to find the sound driver from that CD. However there is more chance that you will not find the driver for windows 98 in CD. I will suggest you to find it from internet or again install Windows XP. Note from the asker: It is a Dell Latitude designed for Windows XP Home.
If you are referring to the Jetway N68M motherboard, look at the related link for the drivers for the Via audio drivers for Windows 8.
Download a driver for your sound card.
Any USB sound card that works in Windows will work with Windows Movie Maker.
You can buy a sound card for a Windows 7 laptop from the Microsoftprokey website. You will need to purchase a product key to unlock the full features of the sound card. Once you have the key, you can download the sound card drivers from the website and install them on your laptop.
You should go to control panel, click sounds, scroll down to Start Windows, aka windows startup sound, then click browse and find a sound that works This works for Xp and 7 I'm not sure how you change the startup sound in Windows Vista or 2000
Because Windows 7 does not support your sound card. Try to find drivers for your sound card compatible with vista (x32 or x64 depending what you have). And install the driver for Vista. You can choose compatibility mode to the driver too.