VIA Vinyl AC'97 Audio Codec Code 10

I have an optima A255 series laptop, nothing flash. Just formatted it to XP Home for a friend due to it not being looked after.

I reinstalled the vinyl audio codec which is the correct one for the laptop, and there is an exclamation mark next to it in the device manager and it can not start. Have re installed many times just throwing my luck around but yes... no luck for me, I can not stand audio codec's when it comes to reinstalling them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks aLL

Luke