I keep getting dsound.dll error messages

[lyricalsdream]

I am running Windows XP Professional, 2.4 GHz Intel Celron processor, 40GB Ultra DMA hard drive. I have WMP11 and I have no sound. I have sound on aol, real player, and quicktime. I have customized my media player and selected RTP once and then QTP. Both times once I selected a media player as default, that media player would no longer have sound. I tried doing a repair on Windows XP, but when my computer restarted, I got the error message ALCXMNTR.EXE Bad Image
c\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.dll is not a valid Windows image.Please check this against your installation diskette. I have tried updating directx, but I get an error message during installation. I would welcome any ideas at this point.

 

[Tmagic650]

Try a clean install of XP

 

[rev_olie]

Have you tried doing a staged update of Direct X not just jumping to the highest one?

You can get the dsound files here
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?dsound

 

[lyricalsdream]

how do I do that?
by the way, I downloaded HJT today, not sure really what to do with it, but i saw it keep coming up in discussions.

 

[THNDR143]

try this..

Uninstall DirectX. http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=522

Download the latest DirectX and install it. http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/directx.html