No sound on my laptop Dell Inspiron

I just installed Windows Vista on my Dell laptop, but am not able to hear any sound. There is an "x" that appears next to the speaker icon in the taskbar and it says: "no audio output device is installed". How can solve this problem?

The following article might be worth a visit:

Windows 7 - no sound in Windows
http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/no-sound-in-Windows
(valid for XP - Vista - 7)

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