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As for the beeping at you on errors - motherboards have a built in speaker that works independantly of your sound card for very basic (and annoying) diagnostic beeps. You definitely have a sound card, and bookworm is right on it - Realtek ac'97. Its the most common soundcard processor thats built directly onto the vast majority of motherboards nowadays. Because it is onboard sound, your computers BIOS will control whether it is enabled or not. When you boot, press the F2 (or whatever your screen says) to enter setup. Look through the setup screens to find "integrated peripherals" or something that references "onboard sound" and make sure it is enabled. Next step is in windows, control panel, system, device manager -> uninstall your current sound card drivers and download fresh ones from HP's support page and reinstall.
BEFORE you do anything, i'd qualify what specifically the issue is. If you search through your computer for a .wav file and launch it, do you hear anything? Are the speakers turned on and volumen unmuted in your volume controls (both master volumen and wav volume)? I've seen a ton of scenarios where the sound card is fine, and someone has just downloaded a divx movie or something that requires a missing audio codec - *media player will not autoinstall AC-3 codecs as a little hint*
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