Before reformatting, try and update your soundcard drivers. A program from this link, CPUID.com, should help you determine your onboard soundcard if you don't know what model/make it is. Typically most onboard soundcards have drivers from Windows XP's stock of default drivers, but updating should negate any errors due to bug fixes within each release.
listen to the man, try updating the specific drivers, may help...
and... BACKUP YOUR FL ID!!!! :rtfm:
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor
If you don't back up your IP when you reinstall freelancer you will lose all your chars
I've been mildly miffed by one-shot weapons since their implementation, oh so long ago. I remember the days when fights were a matter of who could aim better, rather than who could aim a single shot. - Virus
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor