For one thing, if you connect it to the Internet, it is not going to stand a chance against rootkits with it just being SP2. You need to update it with ALL high priority updates including SP3 & all subsequent updates if you want to have a chance of keeping it free from viruses.
That may or may not also help your sound issue.
Once you have it fully service packed, I'd uninstall the sound card with device manager, reboot and let it "discover" the sound card again. When it does, point it the subdirectory with your latest sound card drivers and see if that works.
Also, make sure you don't have any unknown devices in device manager. If you have a PCI device with a yellow flag on it, you probably need to download Microsoft UAA driver first, and then install your sound card driver.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888111
Without that Windows component installed most/all sound drivers can't work - and depending on how Windows was reinstalled (especially with the older versions like SP2 XP), it was pretty common to have to reinstall that UAA manually.
There is also a small chance it is a hardware failure - but out of hundreds of sound issues I've fought over the years, I've only seen 1 machine (and it was on a desktop just last week), where the sound card truly had quit and had to be replaced.
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